Meaning not yet researched.
Amethyst: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 181 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,069 in 2022.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,069 in 2022; #1,242 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Amethyst in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,242 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2022, at #1,069.
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Amethyst: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 181 girls in 2025. Peak: #1,069 in 2022 · most girls in one year: 235 (2022).
In 2025, 181 US girls were named Amethyst, making it the 1,242nd most common girls’ name of the year, up 64 places from #1,306 in 2024. That is 5 more than the 176 girls named Amethyst in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,069, reached in 2022. That year also had the most girls given the name: 235. For comparison, it was #1,668 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Amethyst in 57 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1967 with 5 babies. In all, 4,576 US babies have been given the name, 99.6% of them girls and 0.3% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 1,213 babies named Amethyst.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,891 US girls were named Amethyst; the busiest of those years was 2022, with 235. In 2025 that was about 1 in 8,880 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Amethyst ranked highest in Oregon in 2025, at #629 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Rarer spellings such as Amythest, Amythyst and Amathyst are summarised on this page.
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Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in English. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Amythest (24), Amythyst (11), Amathyst (7).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Amethyst in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 41 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oregon | 5 | #629 | — |
| Indiana | 9 | #655 | — |
| Arizona | 9 | #683 | — |
| Michigan | 8 | #865 | — |
| Texas | 25 | #1,091 | #1,015 |
| New York | 12 | #1,168 | — |
| Pennsylvania | 6 | #1,242 | — |
| California | 16 | #1,414 | #1,738 |
| Ohio | 5 | #1,464 | — |
| Florida | 5 | #2,177 | #2,102 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 181 | #1,242 | — | — |
| 2024 | 176 | #1,306 | — | — |
| 2023 | 206 | #1,168 | 6 | #10,893 |
| 2022 | 235 | #1,069 | 5 | #12,459 |
| 2021 | 215 | #1,143 | 5 | #12,249 |
| 2020 | 184 | #1,236 | — | — |
| 2019 | 189 | #1,239 | — | — |
| 2018 | 168 | #1,338 | — | — |
| 2017 | 177 | #1,317 | — | — |
| 2016 | 160 | #1,440 | — | — |
| 2015 | 128 | #1,668 | — | — |
| 2014 | 95 | #2,051 | — | — |
| 2013 | 55 | #3,008 | — | — |
| 2012 | 75 | #2,450 | — | — |
| 2011 | 62 | #2,798 | — | — |
| 2010 | 62 | #2,807 | — | — |
| 2009 | 62 | #2,828 | — | — |
| 2008 | 47 | #3,480 | — | — |
| 2007 | 70 | #2,617 | — | — |
| 2006 | 88 | #2,186 | — | — |
| 2005 | 77 | #2,316 | — | — |
| 2004 | 97 | #1,926 | — | — |
| 2003 | 105 | #1,786 | — | — |
| 2002 | 98 | #1,822 | — | — |
| 2001 | 95 | #1,851 | — | — |
| 2000 | 95 | #1,818 | — | — |
| 1999 | 102 | #1,636 | — | — |
| 1998 | 96 | #1,667 | — | — |
| 1997 | 103 | #1,562 | — | — |
| 1996 | 89 | #1,703 | — | — |
| 1995 | 88 | #1,672 | — | — |
| 1994 | 87 | #1,707 | — | — |
| 1993 | 88 | #1,694 | — | — |
| 1992 | 92 | #1,643 | — | — |
| 1991 | 76 | #1,858 | — | — |
| 1990 | 76 | #1,863 | — | — |
| 1989 | 64 | #1,981 | — | — |
| 1988 | 51 | #2,217 | — | — |
| 1987 | 30 | #3,102 | — | — |
| 1986 | 37 | #2,624 | — | — |
| 1985 | 32 | #2,862 | — | — |
| 1984 | 37 | #2,516 | — | — |
| 1983 | 18 | #4,115 | — | — |
| 1982 | 33 | #2,772 | — | — |
| 1981 | 21 | #3,740 | — | — |
| 1980 | 22 | #3,615 | — | — |
| 1979 | 15 | #4,633 | — | — |
| 1978 | 14 | #4,688 | — | — |
| 1977 | 15 | #4,432 | — | — |
| 1976 | 15 | #4,161 | — | — |
| 1975 | 17 | #3,779 | — | — |
| 1974 | 9 | #5,788 | — | — |
| 1973 | 10 | #5,204 | — | — |
| 1971 | 5 | #8,372 | — | — |
| 1969 | 5 | #7,503 | — | — |
| 1968 | 6 | #6,271 | — | — |
| 1967 | 5 | #6,829 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).