Ami (given name)

Ami

Gender	Female in Hebrew, Persian, Indian, and Japanese
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.

Written forms in Japanese

Forms in kanji can include:

• 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

• 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 Metcalf (born 1994), English actress
• 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

• 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

• Ami (disambiguation)
• Amy
• 愛未
• 愛美 (disambiguation)