Name in Japanese A Aimee

Aimee in Japanese

エイミー
Katakana
エイミー
Hiragana
えいみー
Romaji (Hepburn)
Eimī

This is the established spelling used for Aimee in Japanese dictionaries, books and media.

How Aimee sounds in Japanese

Read it one katakana at a time:

E
I
ミー

Full reading: Eimī

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Why Aimee is written in katakana

In Japanese, foreign names are written in katakana — the angular script reserved for words borrowed from other languages. So on a form, a name tag, a delivery slip or a news article in Japan, Aimee appears as エイミー. This is the correct and respectful way a non-Japanese name is represented; it is not a kanji "translation". A Japanese reader sees エイミー and immediately reads it by its sound, Eimī.

Katakana is a syllabary, so English sounds are fitted to the nearest Japanese syllables and every consonant (except ん) is followed by a vowel. That is why Aimee becomes エイミー rather than a letter-for-letter copy. More than one katakana spelling can be reasonable for the same name, which is why we flag whether a spelling is a long-established one or a natural default.