Amed
A boys’ name with no widely documented etymology — two syllables, given to 7 babies a year in England and Wales.
Amed by the numbers
In 2025, 7 babies in England and Wales were named Amed. In the US, 5 were, though that figure is from 2017, the most recent full year we hold.
For the size of the two countries, it is given several times more often in England and Wales than in the US.
Its American peak was 10 babies in 2001, making it a 2000s name.
What we can tell you about Amed
Not every name has a meaning to trace. Plenty are coined rather than inherited — invented outright, blended from two names, or respelled from an older one — and where we cannot find an etymology we can stand behind, we would rather say so than make one up. What follows comes from the birth records themselves.
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