Amity
#3,975 for girls in 2025, 36 births
- Peak · girls
- 1979 · 119 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 2,163since 1960
Amity over time
Rank among girls' names. Amity 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 | |
|---|---|---|
| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #3,975 | 36 |
| 2024 | #3,047 | 53 |
| 2023 | #2,614 | 67 |
| 2022 | #2,792 | 61 |
| 2021 | #3,883 | 38 |
| 2020 | #4,263 | 32 |
| 2019 | #4,909 | 27 |
| 2018 | #3,918 | 37 |
| 2017 | #4,066 | 36 |
| 2016 | #3,656 | 42 |
| 2015 | #3,842 | 39 |
| 2014 | #5,025 | 27 |
| 2013 | #4,645 | 30 |
| 2012 | #5,398 | 25 |
| 2011 | #4,915 | 28 |
| 2010 | #5,108 | 27 |
| 2009 | #5,097 | 28 |
| 2008 | #4,647 | 32 |
| 2007 | #7,092 | 18 |
| 2006 | #9,901 | 11 |
| 2005 | #4,958 | 26 |
| 2004 | #4,707 | 28 |
| 2003 | #6,055 | 19 |
| 2002 | #3,654 | 36 |
| 2001 | #3,703 | 35 |
| 2000 | #4,400 | 27 |
| 1999 | #4,870 | 22 |
| 1998 | #4,023 | 28 |
| 1997 | #3,897 | 28 |
| 1996 | #4,184 | 25 |
| 1995 | #4,846 | 20 |
| 1994 | #5,016 | 19 |
| 1993 | #3,877 | 27 |
| 1992 | #3,343 | 33 |
| 1991 | #4,650 | 21 |
| 1990 | #4,003 | 25 |
| 1989 | #4,121 | 23 |
| 1988 | #3,690 | 25 |
| 1987 | #3,101 | 30 |
| 1986 | #3,890 | 21 |
| 1985 | #4,126 | 19 |
| 1984 | #2,421 | 39 |
| 1983 | #2,975 | 28 |
| 1982 | #2,451 | 39 |
| 1981 | #1,663 | 69 |
| 1980 | #1,528 | 77 |
| 1979 | #1,125 | 119 |
| 1978 | #1,347 | 88 |
| 1977 | #1,345 | 84 |
| 1976 | #1,206 | 94 |
| 1975 | #1,404 | 75 |
| 1974 | #1,578 | 60 |
| 1973 | #1,913 | 43 |
| 1972 | #2,276 | 33 |
| 1971 | #2,736 | 26 |
| 1970 | #3,712 | 16 |
| 1969 | #4,418 | 11 |
| 1968 | #7,016 | 5 |
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| 1965 | #6,539 | 5 |
| 1964 | #6,009 | 6 |
| 1963 | #6,592 | 5 |
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| 1961 | #6,567 | 5 |
| 1960 | #6,390 | 5 |
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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.
Where Amity is popular in 1974
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Virginia#578 · 1 in 5,550
- North Carolina#669 · 1 in 6,768
- Florida#808 · 1 in 7,283
- Ohio#1,014 · 1 in 14,023
- California#1,654 · 1 in 22,770
Best ever in a state: #356 in Utah, 1979.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Virginia | #578 | 5 | 1 in 5,550 |
| North Carolina | #669 | 5 | 1 in 6,768 |
| Florida | #808 | 6 | 1 in 7,283 |
| Ohio | #1,014 | 5 | 1 in 14,023 |
| California | #1,654 | 6 | 1 in 22,770 |
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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 Amity
- 928 spots since 2024 (#3,047 → #3,975)
- 288 spots since 2020 (#4,263 → #3,975)
- 133 spots since 2015 (#3,842 → #3,975)
- Debuted 1960
- Peaked 1979 at #1,125 (119 births)
- Births halved by 1982, 3 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- 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%)
- 29.5% of all girls named Amity (638) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 42 | #4,418 (1969) | #6,219 |
| 1970s | 638 | #1,125 (1979) | #1,864 |
| 1980s | 370 | #1,528 (1980) | #2,997 |
| 1990s | 248 | #3,343 (1992) | #4,271 |
| 2000s | 260 | #3,654 (2002) | #5,421 |
| 2010s | 318 | #3,656 (2016) | #4,548 |
| 2020s | 287 | #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 1974
Top girls' names in 1974
More about 1974
girls
1,467,534 girls got a published name in 1974; 1 in 24,459 of them was named Amity, which outranked 84.6% of the 10,247 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 17.8% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,563Shanell61
- #1,563Shonta61
- #1,563Toi61
- #1,578Amity60
- #1,578Brigid60
- #1,578Bronwyn60
- #1,578Cherrie60
- #1,598Buffie59
- #1,598Charleen59
- #1,598Chrissy59
Tied with 19 names at #1,578; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.