Amy as First Name

Amy Parks            Origin/Culture/Country: Australian
Amy Parks: is a reporter for National Nine News in Melbourne

Amy L. Chua            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese
Amy L. Chua: is the John M. Duff, Jr. Professor of Law at Yale Law School. She joined the Yale faculty in 2001 after teaching at Duke Law School. Prior to starting her teaching career, she was a corporate law associate at Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton. She specializes in the study of international business transactions, law and development, ethnic conflict, and globalization and the law.

Amy Tan            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese
Amy Tan: is an American writer of Chinese descent whose works explore mother-daughter relationships. In 1993, Tan's adaptation of her most popular fiction work, The Joy Luck Club, became a commercially successful film.

Amy Yuen Yee Chow            Origin/Culture/Country: American
Amy Yuen Yee Chow: is an American gymnast and a member of the famous Magnificent 7 who were the first American team to win Olympic gymnastics gold. Her fellow team members were Jaycie Phelps, Dominique Dawes, Shannon Miller, Kerri Strug, Amanda Borden and Dominique Moceanu. Chow was coached by Mark Young and was the first Asian-American woman to take an Olympic medal in her sport.

Contemporary or Traditional Although trendy and fashionable names for baby girls abound, there is surely a paucity of trendy names for baby boys. For baby girls, we have such trendy and fashionable names such as Alexis from the television soap opera "Dynasty, Ashley from the singer Ashley Judd... More..

Amy as Last Name

Gilbert Amy            Origin/Culture/Country: French
Gilbert Amy: is a French composer and conductor. In 1954 he entered the Conservatoire de Paris where he was taught and influenced by Olivier Messiaen and Darius Milhaud and studied piano with Yvonne Loriod. His first compositions (Œil de fumée) date from 1955. In 1957 he met Pierre Boulez, under whose direction he composed his Piano Sonata. A year later Boulez commissioned from him a work called Mouvements which was performed in Darmstadt by the Orchestre du Domaine Musical, an ensemble whose goal was to promote new music. From 1958 to 1961 he attended the courses given by Karlheinz Stockhausen in Darmstadt. In 1962 Jean-Louis Barrault named him adjunct music director of the Odéon Theater in Paris