Amit
Last seen for girls in 2017 at #11,615 · #8,243 for boys in 2025, 9 births
Given to boys 93.5% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 1983 · 135 births
- Debut · boys
- 6 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 2,899since 1965
Amit over time
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | — | #8,243 | 9 | |
| 2024 | — | #5,904 | 15 | |
| 2023 | — | #10,821 | 6 | |
| 2022 | — | #6,828 | 12 | |
| 2021 | — | #5,562 | 16 | |
| 2020 | — | #8,067 | 9 | |
| 2019 | — | #5,555 | 16 | |
| 2018 | — | #5,106 | 18 | |
| 2017 | #11,615 | 8 | #4,594 | 21 |
| 2016 | #12,876 | 7 | #5,318 | 17 |
| 2015 | #16,419 | 5 | #5,507 | 16 |
| 2014 | — | #3,787 | 27 | |
| 2013 | — | #3,405 | 31 | |
| 2012 | #16,869 | 5 | #3,625 | 29 |
| 2011 | #11,181 | 9 | #2,748 | 43 |
| 2010 | #13,448 | 7 | #3,708 | 28 |
| 2009 | #17,294 | 5 | #3,162 | 36 |
| 2008 | #10,084 | 11 | #3,561 | 30 |
| 2007 | #13,924 | 7 | #2,473 | 51 |
| 2006 | #9,286 | 12 | #2,578 | 46 |
| 2005 | — | #2,265 | 52 | |
| 2004 | #10,690 | 9 | #2,238 | 51 |
| 2003 | #11,325 | 8 | #2,392 | 44 |
| 2002 | #11,108 | 8 | #2,249 | 46 |
| 2001 | #8,196 | 12 | #1,912 | 57 |
| 2000 | #5,705 | 19 | #1,924 | 54 |
| 1999 | #11,385 | 7 | #2,162 | 43 |
| 1998 | — | #1,899 | 51 | |
| 1997 | #12,070 | 6 | #1,890 | 49 |
| 1996 | #7,574 | 11 | #1,655 | 58 |
| 1995 | #11,783 | 6 | #1,682 | 53 |
| 1994 | #11,778 | 6 | #1,495 | 63 |
| 1993 | #8,719 | 9 | #1,577 | 57 |
| 1992 | #8,065 | 10 | #1,452 | 63 |
| 1991 | #9,336 | 8 | #1,314 | 73 |
| 1990 | — | #1,252 | 78 | |
| 1989 | — | #1,336 | 67 | |
| 1988 | — | #1,130 | 78 | |
| 1987 | — | #954 | 97 | |
| 1986 | — | #1,054 | 78 | |
| 1985 | #8,318 | 7 | #839 | 114 |
| 1984 | — | #823 | 113 | |
| 1983 | — | #743 | 135 | |
| 1982 | — | #840 | 111 | |
| 1981 | — | #800 | 120 | |
| 1980 | — | #871 | 104 | |
| 1979 | — | #945 | 87 | |
| 1978 | — | #996 | 75 | |
| 1977 | — | #1,036 | 69 | |
| 1976 | — | #1,067 | 61 | |
| 1975 | — | #1,191 | 50 | |
| 1974 | — | #1,471 | 35 | |
| 1973 | — | #1,653 | 28 | |
| 1972 | — | #1,680 | 27 | |
| 1971 | — | #2,052 | 20 | |
| 1970 | — | #1,615 | 28 | |
| 1969 | — | #3,314 | 8 | |
| 1968 | — | #2,445 | 12 | |
| 1967 | — | #2,985 | 8 | |
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| 1965 | — | #3,537 | 6 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Amit! It came in at #3,537, and was given to 6 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1966, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.
See more about Amit
- 2,339 spots since 2024 (#5,904 → #8,243)
- 176 spots since 2020 (#8,067 → #8,243)
- 2,736 spots since 2015 (#5,507 → #8,243)
- Biggest jump: 100 spots in 1987 (#1,054 → #954)
- Biggest drop: 215 spots in 1986 (#839 → #1,054)
- Debuted 1965
- Peaked 1983 at #743 (135 births)
- Births halved by 1989, 6 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 9 yrs · run 1978–1985
- Highest: 1 in 13,278 boys born in 1983 were named Amit (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 189,786 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 35.1% of all boys named Amit (1,017) were born in this decade
- The majority has never changed
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 34 | #2,445 (1968) | #3,070 |
| 1970s | 480 | #945 (1979) | #1,371 |
| 1980s | 1,017 | #743 (1983) | #939 |
| 1990s | 588 | #1,252 (1990) | #1,638 |
| 2000s | 467 | #1,912 (2001) | #2,475 |
| 2010s | 246 | #2,748 (2011) | #4,335 |
| 2020s | 67 | #5,562 (2021) | #7,571 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Amit in 1984
Top boys' names in 1984
More about 1984
boys
1,804,848 boys got a published name in 1984; 1 in 15,972 of them was named Amit, which outranked 88.8% of the 7,341 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 23.5% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).