Amit — #5933 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Amit

The Social Security Administration has registered 2,891 babies named Amit between 1965 and 2024, spanning 60 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Amit currently holds the #5933 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 1983, when 135 babies received it in a single year. Amit is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 202 additional births since 1985.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Amit performed strongest in the 1980s, accumulating 1,017 births during that ten-year window. Across the 7 decades of recorded activity, Amit shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 537 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California and New Jersey. In total, SSA state-level files list Amit in 11 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Amit in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 2,891 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.