Amichai

Boys' name

My people are alive

Amichai has been given to 73 babies in the U.S. since 1977. 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 2024, with 11 recorded.

Babies named Amichai, 2024

1 in 304,000

Amichai over time, 1880–2025

Boys

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Amichai: meaning, origin, and history

My people are alive

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Amichai means

Amichai means “my people are alive”.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Amichai is used in Hebrew.

Another recorded pronunciation is /a.mi.ˈχaj/ for Amichai.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 73 boys were recorded with the name Amichai between 1977 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 11 in 2024; its best national rank was #5,871 in 1977.

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.

U.S. Social Security Administration: national name data and limitations

How common is Amichai?

Amichai had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2024: 1 in 304,000; 11 of 3,342,801 births
Among boys only: 1 in 157,000; <0.01% of boys
Rank, 2024: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 210,642 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Amichai sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2024 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 210,642 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Amichai. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Amichais were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Amichai was born before 2013 — so the typical Amichai is around 12 today.

Median birth year: 2013; About 12 years old
Biggest decade: 2010s; 38.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 93.2%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 73; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

2010s — 38.4% of all recorded uses (28).

Is Amichai 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 2024 (11)
Years since peak: 1; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Volatile; 41.2% average annual change
Best rank ever: #5,871; 1977

Spellings of Amichai

Amichai is not the most common spelling — Michal is, with 67.4% against Amichai's 1.3%.

Michal67.4%3,782
Micha20.8%1,170
Michail10.5%589
Amichai1.3%73

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.

Amichai by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025: Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: —
Best rank ever: #5,871; 1977
Peak year: 2024; 11 that year
First recorded: 1977
Last recorded: 2024
All-time count: 73
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Amichai

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

Amillio Amirali Amiris Amirjon Amirion Amiliano Amitai Amirie Amireon Amillion Amirkhan Amillian Amirius Amilliano Amilio Amirr Amiere Zachai Avishai Amiriyon Amilcar Amitoj Amiin Amisi

Sibling names for Amichai

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

Noah Xochitl Leonor Elina Malka Eleni Emerie Malani

For a brother

Jeremias Bjorn Kylo Evans Shimon Rio Rome Shlomo

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