Amethyst
#1,241 for girls in 2025, 181 births · Last seen for boys in 2023 at #10,821
Given to girls 99.7% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 2022 · 235 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 4,560since 1967
Amethyst over time
Rank among girls' names. Amethyst has never cracked the top 1,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #1,241 | 181 | — | |
| 2024 | #1,305 | 176 | — | |
| 2023 | #1,168 | 206 | #10,821 | 6 |
| 2022 | #1,069 | 235 | #12,330 | 5 |
| 2021 | #1,143 | 215 | #12,146 | 5 |
| 2020 | #1,236 | 184 | — | |
| 2019 | #1,239 | 189 | — | |
| 2018 | #1,338 | 168 | — | |
| 2017 | #1,317 | 177 | — | |
| 2016 | #1,439 | 160 | — | |
| 2015 | #1,667 | 128 | — | |
| 2014 | #2,049 | 95 | — | |
| 2013 | #3,005 | 55 | — | |
| 2012 | #2,449 | 75 | — | |
| 2011 | #2,796 | 62 | — | |
| 2010 | #2,803 | 62 | — | |
| 2009 | #2,826 | 62 | — | |
| 2008 | #3,478 | 47 | — | |
| 2007 | #2,616 | 70 | — | |
| 2006 | #2,186 | 88 | — | |
| 2005 | #2,314 | 77 | — | |
| 2004 | #1,925 | 97 | — | |
| 2003 | #1,786 | 105 | — | |
| 2002 | #1,821 | 98 | — | |
| 2001 | #1,851 | 95 | — | |
| 2000 | #1,817 | 95 | — | |
| 1999 | #1,636 | 102 | — | |
| 1998 | #1,667 | 96 | — | |
| 1997 | #1,562 | 103 | — | |
| 1996 | #1,702 | 89 | — | |
| 1995 | #1,669 | 88 | — | |
| 1994 | #1,707 | 87 | — | |
| 1993 | #1,694 | 88 | — | |
| 1992 | #1,643 | 92 | — | |
| 1991 | #1,857 | 76 | — | |
| 1990 | #1,862 | 76 | — | |
| 1989 | #1,981 | 64 | — | |
| 1988 | #2,216 | 51 | — | |
| 1987 | #3,101 | 30 | — | |
| 1986 | #2,620 | 37 | — | |
| 1985 | #2,860 | 32 | — | |
| 1984 | #2,515 | 37 | — | |
| 1983 | #4,109 | 18 | — | |
| 1982 | #2,770 | 33 | — | |
| 1981 | #3,739 | 21 | — | |
| 1980 | #3,609 | 22 | — | |
| 1979 | #4,626 | 15 | — | |
| 1978 | #4,679 | 14 | — | |
| 1977 | #4,425 | 15 | — | |
| 1976 | #4,154 | 15 | — | |
| 1975 | #3,774 | 17 | — | |
| 1974 | #5,776 | 9 | — | |
| 1973 | #5,191 | 10 | — | |
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| 1971 | #8,324 | 5 | — | |
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| 1969 | #7,471 | 5 | — | |
| 1968 | #6,246 | 6 | — | |
| 1967 | #6,804 | 5 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Amethyst! It came in at #6,804, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1969–1972, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Amethyst is popular in 1996
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Colorado#675 · 1 in 4,195
- North Carolina#915 · 1 in 7,870
- Texas#1,207 · 1 in 10,735
- New York#1,557 · 1 in 14,904
- California#1,559 · 1 in 16,413
Best ever in a state: #252 in New Mexico, 2017.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Colorado | #675 | 5 | 1 in 4,195 |
| North Carolina | #915 | 5 | 1 in 7,870 |
| Texas | #1,207 | 13 | 1 in 10,735 |
| New York | #1,557 | 7 | 1 in 14,904 |
| California | #1,559 | 14 | 1 in 16,413 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Amethyst
- 64 spots since 2024 (#1,305 → #1,241)
- 5 spots since 2020 (#1,236 → #1,241)
- 426 spots since 2015 (#1,667 → #1,241)
- Debuted 1967
- Peaked 2022 at #1,069 (235 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 6,979 girls born in 2022 were named Amethyst (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 8,880 girls born in 2025 (0.01%)
- 26.3% of all girls named Amethyst (1,197) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 16 | #6,246 (1968) | #6,840 |
| 1970s | 100 | #3,774 (1975) | #5,119 |
| 1980s | 345 | #1,981 (1989) | #2,952 |
| 1990s | 897 | #1,562 (1997) | #1,700 |
| 2000s | 834 | #1,786 (2003) | #2,262 |
| 2010s | 1,171 | #1,239 (2019) | #2,010 |
| 2020s | 1,197 | #1,069 (2022) | #1,194 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Amethyst in 1996
Top girls' names in 1996
More about 1996
girls
1,753,007 girls got a published name in 1996; 1 in 19,697 of them was named Amethyst, which outranked 89.3% of the 15,894 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 11.5% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,685Milan90
- #1,685Sabina90
- #1,685Saira90
- #1,702Amethyst89
- #1,702Aerial89
- #1,702Amirah89
- #1,702Breauna89
- #1,711Cami88
- #1,711Dionna88
- #1,711Jakayla88
Tied with 8 names at #1,702; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.