Amme
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/əmm/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Amme is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Philippines than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 2.4M(measured from records)
- JMJamaica≈1 in 323K
- IEIreland≈1 in 462K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Philippines (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 79 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 323K (inferred from the name graph)
≈210 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Jamaica, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Amme counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PH Philippines | ≈210 est. | ≈1 in 525K | — | Amme | 10 |
| US United States | 136 | 1 in 2.4M | 136 | Amme | 79 |
| NG Nigeria | ≈78 est. | ≈1 in 2.8M | — | Amme | 4 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈53 est. | ≈1 in 1.2M | listed | Amme | 16 |
| IT Italy | ≈27 est. | ≈1 in 2.3M | — | Amme | 3 |
| IE Ireland | ≈11 est. | ≈1 in 462K | — | Amme | 2 |
| AT Austria | ≈11 est. | ≈1 in 829K | — | Amme | 5 |
| JM Jamaica | ≈9 est. | ≈1 in 323K | — | Amme | 2 |
| GY Guyana | 1 | 1 in 750K | 1 | — | 1 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; the gb-nisra-baby-names-ni register; Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Amme is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Finnish, bathtub, tub (large container for holding water in which a person may bathe)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In tld, riceplant, rice in the field
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In Danish, a wet nurse
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In German, wet nurse
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latvian, upe Igaunijā, Jegevas un Tartu apriņķī, Emajegi kreisā krasta pieteka
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Ernst Ammeb. 1863DEGerman manufacturer
- Jochen Ammeb. 1935DEGerman writer (1935–2016)
- Achim Ammeb. 1949DEGerman actor and author
- Wolfram AmmeDEDr.-Ing. Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena 1998
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 17 sources across 11 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 136 | #47,684 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1977 | 10 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2008 | 9 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1976 | 8 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1981 | 6 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1975 | 6 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2002 | 5 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1991 | 5 | — |
| GY Guyana | Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025 | 2025 | 1 | #593 |
| GB United Kingdom | NISRA — Baby names Northern Ireland full list (1997–present) | 1998 | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Amme?
- A machine transcription gives /əmm/ (IPA) for English.
- Is Amme a male or female name?
- Amme is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Amme have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 208 people named Amme in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled amme.
- How common is the name Amme?
- In the United States, the national register counted 136 people named Amme in 2020, about 1 in 2.4 million residents.
What do you want to know about Amme?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ammeThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Amme”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.