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Amethyst

#1,242 in 2025Girls' name

Amethyst gemstone

Amethyst has been given to 4,576 babies in the U.S. since 1967. In 2025 it ranked #1,242 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2022, with 235 recorded.

Babies named Amethyst, 2025

1 in 18,300

Amethyst over time, 1880–2025

GirlsBoys
010020030018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Amethyst: meaning, origin, and history

Amethyst gemstone

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Amethyst means

Amethyst takes the English gemstone amethyst into personal-name use.

Origin, language, and formation

Amethyst is used in English.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 4,560 girls were recorded with the name Amethyst between 1967 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 235 in 2022; its best national rank was #1,069 in 2022.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #1,236 in 2020 to #1,242 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #1,668 in 2015 to #1,242 in 2025.

In the United States, 16 boys were recorded with the name Amethyst between 2021 and 2023. Its highest annual count was 6 in 2023; its best national rank was #10,888 in 2023.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Amethyst?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 18,300
181 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 8,880
0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#1,242
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
12,697 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Amethyst 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 2025 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 5003%

Put another way: gather 12,697 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Amethyst. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Amethysts were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Amethyst was born before 2011 — so the typical Amethyst is around 14 today.

Median birth year
2011
About 14 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
26.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
68.1%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
4,560
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2020s — 26.3% of all recorded uses (1,197).

Is Amethyst 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
+64
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−6
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
+426
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.41×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
77.0%
Peak was 2022 (235)
Years since peak
3
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
18.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,069
2022

Where Amethyst is used

Across 2016–2025, Amethyst was most concentrated in New Mexico — about 1 in 2,941 girls, against 1 in 9,118 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in 100,000).

134 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New Mexico1 in 2,941
  2. 2Nevada1 in 4,000
  3. 3Oklahoma1 in 4,167
  4. 4Oregon1 in 4,762
  5. 5Arizona1 in 5,000
  6. 6Colorado1 in 5,882
  7. 7Texas1 in 5,882
  8. 8Indiana1 in 6,667

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings.

Amethyst around the world

Where Amethyst ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1996–2024
    #4,844
    in 2024
  • Canada
    1995–2024
    #3,457
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1997–2013
    #818
    in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Amethyst

People whose public names include Amethyst, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Amethyst by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#1,242
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 6
Best rank ever
#1,069
2022
Peak year
2022
235 that year
First recorded
1967
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
4,560
Count in 2025
181

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#10,888
2023
Peak year
2023
6 that year
First recorded
2021
Last recorded
2023
All-time count
16
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Amethyst

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

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Names with a curve like Amethyst

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Amethyst, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Amethyst

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

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