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I like it; both simple and the epitome of friendliness.
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I've always loved it. A classic in my eyes. I enjoy the simple and sweet vibe I get from it.
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Totally soporific. Can't imagine why it ever got used at all, let alone went viral.
I rather enjoy Bonamie and Bellamie, or Bellamy, as GPs though.
I rather enjoy Bonamie and Bellamie, or Bellamy, as GPs though.
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BonAmi-window cleaner!It's an old-fashioned product, but still around.
Where I grew up, we pronounced it BonAMI, took me years of hearing French before the penny dropped, so to speak.
Where I grew up, we pronounced it BonAMI, took me years of hearing French before the penny dropped, so to speak.
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Amy is so common to me, I have no real opinion on it.
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I don't like it. It doesn't look like anything (you don't even have to stare at it for a long time for it to stop looking like a name), it doesn't look how it sounds, it has strong 80's associations, and it just sort of sounds like the name of an a-hole ex-girlfriend IMO. Jennifer has the same problem, but Amy has the added problem of being so insubstantial.
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I know so many Amy's, to me its a very Australian Millennial name.
Don't hate it but would never call my child it.
Don't hate it but would never call my child it.
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I know several really unpleasant Amys, and that has put me off the name.
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Probably my least favorite name tbh. I might be biased because my strongest association with it is a Facebook stalker I had for a while, but it just makes me think of an unpleasant person. Also, it has this really annoying whiny sound to it, and it's not really substantial enough to be a full name. This is completely subjective of course.
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I didn't like it growing up, but now, I love it. It's everything I like in a name, sweet and simple. I approve.
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I like it. As far as names that are relatively dated go, it's one of my favorites. It's much more appealing to me than similar names like Jennifer.
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I have always liked Amy, Am surprised that it is not becimg popular now.
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God but this name is so boring. It's like Sarah and Jennifer: less placeholder than Jane or Mary, but still dull. It sounds whiny and downbeat too.
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It's always been meh to me, although I think I should like it more than I do due to its "Little Women" connection. I think I'd like it more if it hadn't been so popular when I was young.
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The name Amy seemed so out of place in Little Women! Especially because the other sisters actually had long names with short nicknames, and Amy was just a short name by itself (and one that I at least associate with a more contemporary setting... contemporary to me, that is, not to Louisa May Alcott)
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I've always assumed that Alcott used the name Amy because it's an anagram of the name of the real-life sister upon whom the character was based, May. Beth was based upon her sister Lizzie, and there both the character and the real-life sister had the full name Elizabeth. But I don't know why Anna and Louisa are not at all similar to Margaret nn Meg and Josephine nn Jo.
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Margaret is a puzzle. Meg works so well as a nn for the character, and then when her fashionable friends call her something else - was it Daisy, like her future daughter? - it's just stylistically wondrous. And I've always wondered, if that sequence was based on reality, whatever Anna could use as a nn instead of Nan or Nancy.
As for Louisa, IRL she was Louie = Louis (m), so Josephine, nn Jo instead of Joe, is a good stand-in. Stephanie, for instance, would shorten naturally to Steffie or Steph, not Steve, thus missing the point.
As for Louisa, IRL she was Louie = Louis (m), so Josephine, nn Jo instead of Joe, is a good stand-in. Stephanie, for instance, would shorten naturally to Steffie or Steph, not Steve, thus missing the point.
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I think it's cute and due for a return in popularity. It would fit right in with many popular names now.
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