Amity

#3,975 for girls in 2025, 36 births

Peak · girls
1979 · 119 births
Debut · girls
5 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
2,163
since 1960

Amity over time

girls

Rank among girls' names. Amity has never cracked the top 1,000 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201960peak #1,125, 1979girls
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

Show data table
Yeargirls
rankbirths
2025#3,97536
2024#3,04753
2023#2,61467
2022#2,79261
2021#3,88338
2020#4,26332
2019#4,90927
2018#3,91837
2017#4,06636
2016#3,65642
2015#3,84239
2014#5,02527
2013#4,64530
2012#5,39825
2011#4,91528
2010#5,10827
2009#5,09728
2008#4,64732
2007#7,09218
2006#9,90111
2005#4,95826
2004#4,70728
2003#6,05519
2002#3,65436
2001#3,70335
2000#4,40027
1999#4,87022
1998#4,02328
1997#3,89728
1996#4,18425
1995#4,84620
1994#5,01619
1993#3,87727
1992#3,34333
1991#4,65021
1990#4,00325
1989#4,12123
1988#3,69025
1987#3,10130
1986#3,89021
1985#4,12619
1984#2,42139
1983#2,97528
1982#2,45139
1981#1,66369
1980#1,52877
1979#1,125119
1978#1,34788
1977#1,34584
1976#1,20694
1975#1,40475
1974#1,57860
1973#1,91343
1972#2,27633
1971#2,73626
1970#3,71216
1969#4,41811
1968#7,0165
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1965#6,5395
1964#6,0096
1963#6,5925
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1961#6,5675
1960#6,3905
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First appearance
1960

The first year at least five girls were named Amity! It came in at #6,390, and was given to 5 baby girls.


Quietest stretch: 1960–1963, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.

See more about Amity
Momentum · girls
Holding steady
  • 928 spots since 2024 (#3,047#3,975)
  • 288 spots since 2020 (#4,263#3,975)
  • 133 spots since 2015 (#3,842#3,975)
Rise & fade · girls
19 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1960
  • Peaked 1979 at #1,125 (119 births)
  • Births halved by 1982, 3 yrs later
Top of the charts · girls
Never in the top 1,000
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · girls
1 in 13,490
  • Highest: 1 in 13,490 girls born in 1979 were named Amity (0.01%)
  • Latest: 1 in 44,646 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
Era · girls
The 1970s
  • 29.5% of all girls named Amity (638) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1960s42#4,418 (1969)#6,219
1970s638#1,125 (1979)#1,864
1980s370#1,528 (1980)#2,997
1990s248#3,343 (1992)#4,271
2000s260#3,654 (2002)#5,421
2010s318#3,656 (2016)#4,548
2020s287#2,614 (2023)#3,429

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.

Amity in 1960

girls
#6,390
5 births · 1 in 404,388 girls

Top girls' names in 1960

  1. #1Mary51,472
  2. #2Susan39,208
  3. #3Linda37,316
  4. #4Karen36,378
  5. #5Donna34,138
  6. #6Lisa33,693
  7. #7Patricia32,113
  8. #8Debra26,732
  9. #9Cynthia26,706
  10. #10Deborah25,266
  11. #6,390Amity5
More about 1960

girls

2,021,941 girls got a published name in 1960; 1 in 404,388 of them was named Amity, which outranked 12.8% of the 7,332 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 17.0% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Amity
  1. #5,696Ziva6
  2. #5,696Zonya6
  3. #5,696Zorina6
  4. #6,390Amity5
  5. #6,390Adeana5
  6. #6,390Adelfa5
  7. #6,390Adrienna5

Tied with 942 names at #6,390; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1959
Risers
  1. 1,798Lisha#2,395#597
  2. 1,223Elana#2,108#885
  3. 667Leisha#1,537#870
  4. 513Misty#1,214#701
  5. 462Loriann#1,396#934
Fallers
  1. 421Taryn#771#1,192
  2. 335Cheryll#993#1,328
  3. 305Marilynn#724#1,029
  4. 304Drema#997#1,301
  5. 258Merrie#978#1,236

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 1960