Ami (given name)
Appearance
Gender | Female in Hebrew, Persian, Indian, and Japanese |
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Language(s) | Japanese, Hebrew, Persian, Kannada, Malayalam, Gujarati, Telugu, Tamil, Punjabi, French |
Origin | |
Meaning | "My nation", "my people" or "trustworthy", "reliable" in Hebrew "Nectar" (female), or "much loved" (male) in Indian in Japanese, it can have many different meanings depending on the kanji used. Means "Friend" in French. |
Region of origin | Israel (Jewish diaspora), Persian, Japan, India (Indian diaspora) |
Ami is a given name of Hebrew, Persian, Indian, Japanese and other origins.
Possible writing in Japanese
[edit]- 亜美, "asia-beauty"
- 亜海, "asia-ocean"
- 亜実, "asia-fruit"
- 亜満, "asia-, satisfy, full"
- 亜魅, "asia-fascination"
- あみ (in Hiragana)
- アミ (in Katakana)
People with the name
[edit]- Ami Omer Dadaon (born 2000), Israeli Paralympic champion swimmer
- Ami Dolenz (born 1969), American producer television and film actress
- Ami Ghia (born 1956), Indian former badminton player
- Ami Kawai (born 1967), Japanese stage and television actress
- Ami Harten (1947–1994), Israeli-American applied mathematician
- Ami Haruna (born 1984), Japanese model and actress
- Ami Inamura (稲村 亜美, born 1996), Japanese gravure idol, television personality and sportscaster
- Ami James (born 1972), Israeli-American co-owner of tattoo parlor which is the subject of the reality television program Miami Ink
- Ami Kikuchi (born 1990), Japanese gravure idol, tarento and radio presenter
- Ami Koshimizu (born 1986), Japanese voice actress
- Ami Maayani (1936–2019), Israeli composer
- Ami Mazar (born 1942), Israeli archaeologist and professor
- Ami McKay (born 1968), Canadian novelist and journalist
- Ami Miron, Israeli-American entrepreneur and technology developer
- Ami Nakamura (中村 亜実, born 1987), Japanese ice hockey player
- Ami Nakashima (born 1988), Japanese singer, dancer and actress
- Ami Onuki (born 1973), Japanese pop singer
- Ami Shelef (1936-1988, Israeli basketball player and coach
- Ami Suzuki (born 1982), Japanese singer and songwriter
- Ami Tokito (born 1987), Japanese pop singer and gravure idol
- Ami Trivedi (born 1982), Indian television and theatre actress
- Ami Vashi (born 1981), Indian beauty queen and model
- Ami Vitale (born 1971), American photojournalist and documentary filmmaker
- Ami Yoshida (born 1976), Japanese musician
- Andreea Ioana Moldovan (born 1989), Romanian singer professionally known as AMI
Fictional characters
[edit]- Ami Aiba, a character/protagonist in the game Digimon Story: Cyber Sleuth
- Ami Hinamori, the younger sister of Amu Hinamori in the Shugo Chara! manga series
- Ami Kawamura, one of the main characters in the Little Battlers Experience game and anime series
- Ami Kawashima, in the Toradora! light novel series
- Ami Kitajima, in the manga Digimon Next
- Ami Matsuzaki, one of the main characters in the manga and 2005 anime Animal Yokochō
- Ami Mizuno, one of the main characters in the original anime series of Sailor Moon including its reboot Sailor Moon Crystal
- Ami Mori, in the online participatory webserial Marked for Death
- Ami Onuki, in the animated series Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi, based on the Japanese Pop singer by the same name
- Ami, a character from the video games series Crash Bandicoot, first introduced in Crash Team Racing
See also
[edit]- Ami (disambiguation)
- Amy
- 愛未
- 愛美 (disambiguation)