Amata

Girls' name

Loved, beloved

Amata has been given to 6 babies in the U.S. since 2016. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 2016, with 6 recorded.

Babies named Amata, 2016

1 in 612,000

Amata over time, 1880–2025

Girls

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Amata: meaning, origin, and history

Loved, beloved

Latin

What Amata means

Amata means “loved, beloved”, associated with amāta.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

From Latin amāta (“loved, beloved”); feminine perfect passive participle of amāre (“love”). It can also be interpreted as the feminine form of the saint's name Amātus.

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Origin, language, and formation

Amata is used in English and Italian. Its origins include Latin.

Amata comes through Latin amāta.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Amato.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Italian, Amata is pronounced /aˈma.ta/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 6 girls were recorded with the name Amata between 2016 and 2016. Its highest annual count was 6 in 2016; its best national rank was #14,457 in 2016.

How common is Amata?

Amata had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2016, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2016: 1 in 612,000; 6 of 3,669,531 births
Among girls only: 1 in 295,000; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 2016: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 423,922 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Amata sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2016 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%

Class of 30Under 1%

Grade of 100Under 1%

School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 423,922 children born in 2016 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Amata. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Amatas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Amata was born before 2016 — so the typical Amata is around 9 today.

Median birth year: 2016; About 9 years old
Biggest decade: 2010s; 100.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 100.0%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 6; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

2010s — 100.0% of all recorded uses (6).

Is Amata rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago: —; Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago: New entry; Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago: —; Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago: —; Not published both years
Share of its own peak: 0%; Peak was 2016 (6)
Years since peak: 9; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Not enough data; Too few years
Best rank ever: #14,457; 2016

Spellings of Amata

Amata is not the most common spelling — Amanda is, with 42.8% against Amata's <0.01%.

Amanda42.8%790,638
Anita11.6%215,165
Tamara7.1%131,286
Maya6.7%123,587
Alana3.7%68,264
Amaya2.4%43,525
Amara1.6%28,982
Alta1.6%28,931

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Amata by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025: Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: —
Best rank ever: #14,457; 2016
Peak year: 2016; 6 that year
First recorded: 2016
Last recorded: 2016
All-time count: 6
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Amata

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

Amazi Amarlee Amayha Amaru Amalin Amaryn Amaara Amareli Amalyn Amaury Amarin Amarhi Amania Amarey Amadia Amariel Amarye Amaaya Amavi Amazen Amaeva Amaiia Amalyah Neata

Sibling names for Amata

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

For a sister

Karleigh Hadlee Heavenly Scarlette Henley Raylee Harleigh Galilea

For a brother

Smith Damari Kye Canaan Vladimir Cayson Hamilton Kingsley

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