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Amity

#3,981 in 2025Girls' name

Friendship

Amity has been given to 2,163 babies in the U.S. since 1960. In 2025 it ranked #3,981 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1979, with 119 recorded.

Babies named Amity, 2025

1 in 92,100

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Amity: meaning, origin, and history

Friendship

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Amity means

Amity means “friendship”.

Origin, language, and formation

Amity is used in English.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,163 girls were recorded with the name Amity between 1960 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 119 in 1979; its best national rank was #1,125 in 1979.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #4,270 in 2020 to #3,981 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #3,844 in 2015 to #3,981 in 2025.

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 Amity?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 92,100
36 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 44,600
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#3,981
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
63,832 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Amity 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 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 63,832 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Amity. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Amitys were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Amity was born before 1991 — so the typical Amity is around 34 today.

Median birth year
1991
About 34 years old
Biggest decade
1970s
29.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
38.7%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
2,163
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1970s — 29.5% of all recorded uses (638).

Is Amity 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
−929
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+289
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
−137
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.92×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
30.3%
Peak was 1979 (119)
Years since peak
46
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
25.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,125
1979

Spellings of Amity

Amity is not the most common spelling — Emily is, with 44.5% against Amity's 0.11%.

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 Amity is used

Across 1910–2025, Amity was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 276,911 across all states with data. It was least common in Washington (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 100,000
  2. 2Ohio1 in 100,000
  3. 3Oregon1 in 100,000
  4. 4Texas1 in 100,000
  5. 5Utah1 in 100,000
  6. 6Colorado1 in —
  7. 7Florida1 in —
  8. 8Indiana1 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. Amity has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Amity around the world

Where Amity 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
    2002–2024
    #5,892
    in 2024
  • Canada
    2006–2006
    #2,939
    in 2006
  • South Australia
    1977–2013
    #88
    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 Amity

People whose public names include Amity, 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.

Amity by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#3,981
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 289
Best rank ever
#1,125
1979
Peak year
1979
119 that year
First recorded
1960
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,163
Count in 2025
36

Names similar to Amity

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

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Names with a curve like Amity

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

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Sibling names for Amity

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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