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Amit

#8,292 in 2025UnisexBoys' nameGirls' name

Multiple documented origins; meaning depends on tradition

Amit has been given to 3,101 babies in the U.S. since 1965. In 2025 it ranked #8,292 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1983, with 135 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 93% boys, 7% girls all-time.

Babies named Amit, 2025

1 in 368,000

Amit over time, 1880–2025

BoysGirls
05010015018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Girls or boys — Amit over time

In 2025, Amit went to 0% girls and 100% boys.

19652025

A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.

Amit: meaning, origin, and history

Multiple documented origins; meaning depends on tradition

Sanskrit and Hebrew

What Amit means

Amit has more than one naming route in the cited origin entries: distinct naming traditions.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

Transliteration of Hindi अमित (amit), Marathi अमित (amit), Gujarati અમિત (amit), Bengali অমিত (omito), etc.

Excerpt from Wiktionary: Amit (English) · CC BY-SA 4.0

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Origin, language, and formation

Amit is used in English. Its origins include Sanskrit and Hebrew.

Amit comes through Hindi अमित, Marathi अमित, Gujarati અમિત and Bengali অমিত.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Amitabh, अम, עָמִית and अमित.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,899 boys were recorded with the name Amit between 1965 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 135 in 1983; its best national rank was #743 in 1983.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #8,109 in 2020 to #8,292 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #5,517 in 2015 to #8,292 in 2025.

In the United States, 202 girls were recorded with the name Amit between 1985 and 2017. Its highest annual count was 19 in 2000; its best national rank was #5,712 in 2000.

How common is Amit?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 368,000
9 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 190,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#8,292
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
255,323 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Amit 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 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 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 255,323 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Amit. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Amits were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Amit was born before 1988 — so the typical Amit is around 37 today.

Median birth year
1988
About 37 years old
Biggest decade
1980s
35.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
25.0%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
2,899
People you could plausibly meet
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1980s — 35.1% of all recorded uses (1,017).

Is Amit 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
−2,377
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−183
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−2,775
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.56×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
6.7%
Peak was 1983 (135)
Years since peak
42
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
34.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#743
1983

Spellings of Amit

Amit is not the most common spelling — Jamie is, with 19.2% against Amit's 0.63%.

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.

Where Amit is used — boys

Across 1910–2025, Amit was most concentrated in New Jersey — about 1 in 20,000 boys, against 1 in 57,203 across all states with data. It was least common in Pennsylvania (1 in —).

05 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New Jersey1 in 20,000
  2. 2New York1 in 25,000
  3. 3California1 in 33,333
  4. 4Illinois1 in 50,000
  5. 5Maryland1 in 100,000
  6. 6Texas1 in 100,000
  7. 7Florida1 in —
  8. 8Massachusetts1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys 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. Amit has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Where Amit is used — girls

Across 1910–2025, Amit was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 1,779,197 across all states with data.

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —

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. Amit has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Amit around the world

Where Amit 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
    1996–2018
    #4,749
    in 2018
  • Scotland
    1980–1983
    #276
    in 1983
  • France
    1979–2003
    #4,561
    in 2003
  • Canada
    1991–2009
    #2,374
    in 2009
  • South Australia
    1975–2010
    #754
    in 2010

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Amit

People whose public names include Amit, 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.

Amit by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#8,292
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 183
Best rank ever
#743
1983
Peak year
1983
135 that year
First recorded
1965
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,899
Count in 2025
9

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#5,712
2000
Peak year
2000
19 that year
First recorded
1985
Last recorded
2017
All-time count
202
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Amit

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

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Names with a curve like Amit

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

JustonAntwainNicholausJeredRamoneZebulonJamellJermeyCortneyAndraeDontaDerrek

Sibling names for Amit

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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