Amitai — #11471 US boys' name
179 babies named Amitai in U.S. Social Security records since 1997, with the highest year being 2008. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
More common than 19% of names given to boys today.
37% of everyone ever named Amitai was born in this single decade.
13 babies were named Amitai in 2008 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Amitai
The Social Security Administration has registered 179 babies named Amitai between 1997 and 2024, spanning 28 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Amitai currently holds the #11471 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2008, when 13 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Amitai performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 67 births during that ten-year window. Across the 4 decades of recorded activity, Amitai shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 6 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Amitai in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Amitai 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 179 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.
Amitai at a glance
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Current rank
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Amitai popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2024–1997
- Peak year (2008)
- 13
- Annual births at peak — across 28 years of records
Currently ranks #11471 among boys.
179 total births across 28 years of SSA records. Peaked in 2008 with 13 births in a single year.
Amitai by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 2010s
- 67 births that decade — 37% of Amitai's all-time total
Amitai decade highlights
- Peak decade 67 births
- Runner-up 60 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
2010s was Amitai's strongest decade
67 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 37% of all-time use.
Amitai by state
Where Amitai concentrates geographically — total births since 1997
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | New York | | 6 | 3.4% |
6 of 179 births nationwide.
Top 5 states
- New York 3.4% of nationwide
Recorded in 1 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
New York accounts for 3.4% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1997–2024 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.