Amit
Amit was given to 9 boys in 2025, #8,292 among boys’ names; 3,101 Americans have been recorded with it since 1965 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,950 Americans named Amit and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (95% of everyone recorded); the median is 36 years old and half are between 24 and 44.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Amit by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Amit mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Amit is “a male given name from Sanskrit.”
Also “a diminutive of the male given name Amitabh, from Sanskrit.”
Transliteration of Hindi अमित (amit), Marathi अमित (amit), Gujarati અમિત (amit), Bengali অমিত (omito), etc.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Amit?
#8,292 among boys’ names, 2025
Amit fell from #5,517 in 2015 to #8,292 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 8.3 to 5.3 per million.
135 babies in 1983, the peak
Amit peaked in 1983, when 135 boys were given it, #743 among boys’ names. The 9 births of 2025 are 7% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 9 | #8,292 | 5.3 |
| 2024 | 15 | #5,915 | 8.7 |
| 2023 | 6 | #10,893 | 3.5 |
| 2022 | 12 | #6,843 | 6.9 |
| 2021 | 16 | #5,570 | 9.1 |
| 2020 | 9 | #8,109 | 5.2 |
| 2019 | 16 | #5,557 | 8.9 |
| 2018 | 18 | #5,111 | 9.9 |
| 2017 | 21 | #4,597 | 11.3 |
| 2016 | 17 | #5,325 | 9.0 |
Every recorded year (60)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 16 | #5,517 | 8.3 |
| 2014 | 27 | #3,787 | 14.1 |
| 2013 | 31 | #3,405 | 16.4 |
| 2012 | 29 | #3,623 | 15.3 |
| 2011 | 43 | #2,753 | 22.6 |
| 2010 | 28 | #3,713 | 14.6 |
| 2009 | 36 | #3,167 | 18.1 |
| 2008 | 30 | #3,562 | 14.7 |
| 2007 | 51 | #2,474 | 24.6 |
| 2006 | 46 | #2,579 | 22.4 |
| 2005 | 52 | #2,262 | 26.0 |
| 2004 | 51 | #2,239 | 25.7 |
| 2003 | 44 | #2,390 | 22.3 |
| 2002 | 46 | #2,249 | 23.7 |
| 2001 | 57 | #1,909 | 29.3 |
| 2000 | 54 | #1,924 | 27.5 |
| 1999 | 43 | #2,160 | 22.4 |
| 1998 | 51 | #1,897 | 26.7 |
| 1997 | 49 | #1,887 | 26.0 |
| 1996 | 58 | #1,652 | 30.6 |
| 1995 | 53 | #1,677 | 27.8 |
| 1994 | 63 | #1,491 | 32.6 |
| 1993 | 57 | #1,572 | 29.1 |
| 1992 | 63 | #1,447 | 31.5 |
| 1991 | 73 | #1,308 | 36.1 |
| 1990 | 78 | #1,247 | 38.0 |
| 1989 | 67 | #1,331 | 33.5 |
| 1988 | 78 | #1,128 | 40.7 |
| 1987 | 97 | #953 | 52.0 |
| 1986 | 78 | #1,053 | 42.4 |
| 1985 | 114 | #839 | 61.7 |
| 1984 | 113 | #823 | 62.6 |
| 1983 | 135 | #743 | 75.3 |
| 1982 | 111 | #840 | 61.2 |
| 1981 | 120 | #800 | 67.0 |
| 1980 | 104 | #872 | 58.3 |
| 1979 | 87 | #945 | 50.5 |
| 1978 | 75 | #996 | 45.7 |
| 1977 | 69 | #1,037 | 42.0 |
| 1976 | 61 | #1,067 | 38.9 |
| 1975 | 50 | #1,192 | 32.0 |
| 1974 | 35 | #1,471 | 22.3 |
| 1973 | 28 | #1,655 | 18.0 |
| 1972 | 27 | #1,680 | 16.7 |
| 1971 | 20 | #2,052 | 11.3 |
| 1970 | 28 | #1,617 | 15.1 |
| 1969 | 8 | #3,320 | 4.5 |
| 1968 | 12 | #2,447 | 6.9 |
| 1967 | 8 | #2,990 | 4.6 |
| 1965 | 6 | #3,541 | 3.2 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Amit a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 3,101 Americans recorded as Amit, 7% are girls and 93% boys. In 2025 it went to 9 boys; SSA lists no girls with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Amit: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Amit, and how old are they?
2,950 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 95% of the 3,101 Americans ever recorded as Amit. The median Amit alive today is 36 years old; half are between 24 and 44.
The 2020 Census counted 11,285 people named Amit (293 women and girls, 10,992 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,929 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3.9 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 560 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,340 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 821 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 231 |
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 Amit born?
The states with the most babies named Amit are New York, California and New Jersey, with 78% of its births recorded by state since 1910; New Jersey is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 536 | not ranked | 2.5× |
| California | 526 | not ranked | 1.3× |
| New Jersey | 227 | not ranked | 2.6× |
| Illinois | 161 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Texas | 94 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Maryland | 27 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Pennsylvania | 26 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Florida | 16 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Massachusetts | 15 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Michigan | 13 | not ranked | 0.1× |
Where Amit is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Amit is most over-represented in New Jersey: since 1965 it was given 2.6 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 boys’ 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 Amit with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 3 names spelled alike, given to 3,826 babies since 1880, Amit is the most given (81% of them).
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Amit
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 Amit and names like it
- Compare Amit and AhmetBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sAmit peaked in 1983.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Amit since 1910.
- Sanskrit namesWiktionary’s origin for Amit: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1983The year the most babies were named Amit.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Amit alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with AMost given first.