Amethyst
Amethyst was given to 181 girls in 2025, #1,242 among girls’ names; 4,576 Americans have been recorded with it since 1967 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 4,520 Americans named Amethyst and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 15 years old and half are between 6 and 28.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Amethyst by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Amethyst mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Amethyst is “a female given name.”
From the gemstone amethyst.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Amethyst?
#1,242 among girls’ names, 2025
Amethyst rose from #1,668 in 2015 to #1,242 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 0.07 to 0.11 per 1,000.
240 babies in 2022, the peak
Amethyst peaked in 2022, when 240 babies were given it (235 girls, #1,069 among girls’ names). The 181 births of 2025 are 75% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 181 | #1,242 | 0.11 |
| 2024 | 176 | #1,306 | 0.11 |
| 2023 | 206 | #1,168 | 0.13 |
| 2022 | 235 | #1,069 | 0.14 |
| 2021 | 215 | #1,143 | 0.13 |
| 2020 | 184 | #1,236 | 0.11 |
| 2019 | 189 | #1,239 | 0.11 |
| 2018 | 168 | #1,338 | 0.10 |
| 2017 | 177 | #1,317 | 0.10 |
| 2016 | 160 | #1,440 | 0.09 |
Every recorded year (57)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 128 | #1,668 | 0.07 |
| 2014 | 95 | #2,051 | 0.05 |
| 2013 | 55 | #3,007 | 0.03 |
| 2012 | 75 | #2,450 | 0.04 |
| 2011 | 62 | #2,797 | 0.04 |
| 2010 | 62 | #2,806 | 0.03 |
| 2009 | 62 | #2,827 | 0.03 |
| 2008 | 47 | #3,479 | 0.02 |
| 2007 | 70 | #2,617 | 0.04 |
| 2006 | 88 | #2,186 | 0.05 |
| 2005 | 77 | #2,314 | 0.04 |
| 2004 | 97 | #1,925 | 0.05 |
| 2003 | 105 | #1,785 | 0.06 |
| 2002 | 98 | #1,820 | 0.05 |
| 2001 | 95 | #1,847 | 0.05 |
| 2000 | 95 | #1,814 | 0.05 |
| 1999 | 102 | #1,634 | 0.06 |
| 1998 | 96 | #1,665 | 0.05 |
| 1997 | 103 | #1,560 | 0.06 |
| 1996 | 89 | #1,701 | 0.05 |
| 1995 | 88 | #1,668 | 0.05 |
| 1994 | 87 | #1,702 | 0.05 |
| 1993 | 88 | #1,690 | 0.05 |
| 1992 | 92 | #1,639 | 0.05 |
| 1991 | 76 | #1,852 | 0.04 |
| 1990 | 76 | #1,859 | 0.04 |
| 1989 | 64 | #1,976 | 0.03 |
| 1988 | 51 | #2,212 | 0.03 |
| 1987 | 30 | #3,099 | 0.02 |
| 1986 | 37 | #2,623 | 0.02 |
| 1985 | 32 | #2,861 | 0.02 |
| 1984 | 37 | #2,515 | 0.02 |
| 1983 | 18 | #4,114 | 0.01 |
| 1982 | 33 | #2,772 | 0.02 |
| 1981 | 21 | #3,739 | 0.01 |
| 1980 | 22 | #3,615 | 0.01 |
| 1979 | 15 | #4,632 | 0.01 |
| 1978 | 14 | #4,688 | 0.01 |
| 1977 | 15 | #4,431 | 0.01 |
| 1976 | 15 | #4,159 | 0.01 |
| 1975 | 17 | #3,778 | 0.01 |
| 1974 | 9 | #5,787 | 0.01 |
| 1973 | 10 | #5,202 | 0.01 |
| 1971 | 5 | #8,370 | under 0.01 |
| 1969 | 5 | #7,501 | under 0.01 |
| 1968 | 6 | #6,269 | under 0.01 |
| 1967 | 5 | #6,828 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Amethyst a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Amethyst has been given almost only to girls: 16 boys in 57 years of records.
Girls and boys named Amethyst: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Amethyst, and how old are they?
4,520 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 4,576 Americans ever recorded as Amethyst. The median Amethyst alive today is 15 years old; half are between 6 and 28.
The 2020 Census counted 2,786 people named Amethyst (2,762 women and girls, 24 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 3,369 born in the U.S. The Census count is 17% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 130 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 896 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,320 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 2,170 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Amethyst born?
The states with the most babies named Amethyst are Texas, California and New York, with 53% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 25 | #1,091 | 1.4× |
| California | 16 | #1,414 | 0.9× |
| New York | 12 | #1,168 | 0.6× |
| Arizona | 9 | #683 | 0.8× |
| Indiana | 9 | #655 | 0.4× |
| Michigan | 8 | #865 | 0.4× |
| Pennsylvania | 6 | #1,242 | 0.2× |
| Florida | 5 | #2,177 | 0.6× |
| Ohio | 5 | #1,463 | 0.3× |
| Oregon | 5 | #628 | 0.7× |
Where Amethyst is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Amethyst is most over-represented in Texas: since 1967 it was given 1.4 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Amethyst with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Amethyst
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Amethyst and names like it
- Compare Amethyst and SeleneBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sAmethyst peaked in 2022.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Amethyst since 1910.
- The top names of 2022The year the most babies were named Amethyst.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Amethyst alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with AMost given first.