Given name & surname
Ammi
“my people”
Ammi is used as a given name and a surname.
Original Hebrewעמי
Meaning & origin
What it means
As a biblical name, Ammi means “my people.”
From biblical name research
Where it comes from
Ammi is a biblical name from Hebrew.
From biblical name research
How it developed
From the Hebrew noun 'am (עם), “people or kinsman.”
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The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1977. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
In the Bible
In the Bible, the name Ammi appears in Hosea 2:1, Hosea 1:6.
- Hosea 2:1
- Hosea 1:6
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Ammi through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 141
- 0 boys · 141 girls
- Most popular year
- 2008
- 13 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 5 in 2024. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 13 in 2008. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 294 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Ammi’s family of names
See also 22
Names our sources mention alongside this one. They are related in story or meaning, not forms of this name.
- Eliamshares a root
- Immanuelshares a root
- Ammonshares a root
- Amramshares a root
- Ammielshares a root
- Amasashares a root
- Ummahshares a root
- Rehoboamshares a root
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People named Ammi
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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