Meaning not yet researched.
Amit: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 9 in 2025. Its best rank was #743 in 1983.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #743 in 1983; #8,296 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Amit in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#8,296 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1983, at #743.
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Amit: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 9 boys in 2025. Peak: #743 in 1983 · most boys in one year: 135 (1983).
In 2025, 9 US boys were named Amit, making it the 8,296th most common boys’ name of the year, down 2,376 places from #5,920 in 2024. That is 6 fewer than the 15 boys named Amit in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #743, reached in 1983. That year also had the most boys given the name: 135. For comparison, it was #5,521 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Amit in 60 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1965 with 6 babies. In all, 3,101 US babies have been given the name, 6.5% of them girls and 93% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1980s, with 1,024 babies named Amit.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 139 US boys were named Amit; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 21. In 2025 that was about 1 in 189,786 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Rarer spellings such as Ameet and Amith are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Ameet (65), Amith (29).
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 Amit in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 9 | #8,296 |
| 2024 | — | — | 15 | #5,920 |
| 2023 | — | — | 6 | #10,898 |
| 2022 | — | — | 12 | #6,848 |
| 2021 | — | — | 16 | #5,575 |
| 2020 | — | — | 9 | #8,114 |
| 2019 | — | — | 16 | #5,561 |
| 2018 | — | — | 18 | #5,115 |
| 2017 | 8 | #11,706 | 21 | #4,601 |
| 2016 | 7 | #12,995 | 17 | #5,329 |
| 2015 | 5 | #16,604 | 16 | #5,521 |
| 2014 | — | — | 27 | #3,790 |
| 2013 | — | — | 31 | #3,407 |
| 2012 | 5 | #17,077 | 29 | #3,626 |
| 2011 | 9 | #11,249 | 43 | #2,754 |
| 2010 | 7 | #13,565 | 28 | #3,714 |
| 2009 | 5 | #17,499 | 36 | #3,168 |
| 2008 | 11 | #10,130 | 30 | #3,565 |
| 2007 | 7 | #14,034 | 51 | #2,474 |
| 2006 | 12 | #9,331 | 46 | #2,580 |
| 2005 | — | — | 52 | #2,266 |
| 2004 | 9 | #10,759 | 51 | #2,243 |
| 2003 | 8 | #11,379 | 44 | #2,394 |
| 2002 | 8 | #11,186 | 46 | #2,253 |
| 2001 | 12 | #8,231 | 57 | #1,913 |
| 2000 | 19 | #5,717 | 54 | #1,928 |
| 1999 | 7 | #11,460 | 43 | #2,163 |
| 1998 | — | — | 51 | #1,900 |
| 1997 | 6 | #12,181 | 49 | #1,890 |
| 1996 | 11 | #7,610 | 58 | #1,655 |
| 1995 | 6 | #11,857 | 53 | #1,682 |
| 1994 | 6 | #11,856 | 63 | #1,496 |
| 1993 | 9 | #8,762 | 57 | #1,577 |
| 1992 | 10 | #8,094 | 63 | #1,452 |
| 1991 | 8 | #9,371 | 73 | #1,314 |
| 1990 | — | — | 78 | #1,252 |
| 1989 | — | — | 67 | #1,336 |
| 1988 | — | — | 78 | #1,130 |
| 1987 | — | — | 97 | #954 |
| 1986 | — | — | 78 | #1,054 |
| 1985 | 7 | #8,365 | 114 | #839 |
| 1984 | — | — | 113 | #823 |
| 1983 | — | — | 135 | #743 |
| 1982 | — | — | 111 | #840 |
| 1981 | — | — | 120 | #800 |
| 1980 | — | — | 104 | #872 |
| 1979 | — | — | 87 | #945 |
| 1978 | — | — | 75 | #996 |
| 1977 | — | — | 69 | #1,037 |
| 1976 | — | — | 61 | #1,067 |
| 1975 | — | — | 50 | #1,192 |
| 1974 | — | — | 35 | #1,471 |
| 1973 | — | — | 28 | #1,655 |
| 1972 | — | — | 27 | #1,680 |
| 1971 | — | — | 20 | #2,053 |
| 1970 | — | — | 28 | #1,618 |
| 1969 | — | — | 8 | #3,321 |
| 1968 | — | — | 12 | #2,448 |
| 1967 | — | — | 8 | #2,991 |
| 1965 | — | — | 6 | #3,542 |
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).