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Amita

Girls' name

Feminine form of Amit

Amita has been given to 468 babies in the U.S. since 1961. 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 1984, with 21 recorded.

Babies named Amita, 2018

1 in 586,000

Amita over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Amita: meaning, origin, and history

Feminine form of Amit

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Amita means

Amita is a feminine form of Amit.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Amita is used in Hindi, Marathi and Nepali.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Amita → Amit → अमित → अमित. The family’s meaning is “not + measured”, recorded in Sanskrit with the source elements अ- and मित.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Amit.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 468 girls were recorded with the name Amita between 1961 and 2018. Its highest annual count was 21 in 1984; its best national rank was #3,696 in 1974.

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 Amita?

Amita had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2018, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2018
1 in 586,000
6 of 3,516,853 births
Among girls only
1 in 283,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2018
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
406,284 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Amita 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 2018 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 406,284 children born in 2018 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Amita. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Amitas were born

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

Median birth year
1988
About 37 years old
Biggest decade
1970s
24.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
41.7%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
468
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1970s — 24.4% of all recorded uses (114).

Is Amita 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
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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
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1984 (21)
Years since peak
41
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
35.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,696
1974

Spellings of Amita

Amita is not the most common spelling — Mia is, with 15.7% against Amita's 0.02%.

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 Amita is used

Across 1910–2025, Amita was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 1,198,140 across all states with data. It was least common in Illinois (1 in —).

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Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2Illinois1 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. Amita has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Amita around the world

Where Amita 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
    1998–2015
    #5,730
    in 2015
  • Canada
    2003–2003
    #2,681
    in 2003
  • South Australia
    1998–1998
    #710
    in 1998

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.

Amita 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
#3,696
1974
Peak year
1984
21 that year
First recorded
1961
Last recorded
2018
All-time count
468
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Amita

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

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Sibling names for Amita

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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