Amrita
Amrita was given to 5 girls in 2025, #15,102 among girls’ names; 1,027 Americans have been recorded with it since 1973 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,010 Americans named Amrita and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 26 years old and half are between 19 and 35.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Amrita by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Amrita mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Amrita is “a male given name from Sanskrit used in India.” Its etymology gives the sense “immortal” (अमृत).
Borrowed from Sanskrit अमृत (amṛta, “immortal”).
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Amrita?
#15,102 among girls’ names, 2025
Amrita fell from #7,299 in 2015 to #15,102 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 9.0 to 3.1 per million.
38 babies in 1999, the peak
Amrita peaked in 1999, when 38 girls were given it, #3,312 among girls’ names. The 5 births of 2025 are 13% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #15,102 | 3.1 |
| 2024 | 8 | #11,187 | 4.9 |
| 2023 | 6 | #13,580 | 3.7 |
| 2022 | 8 | #11,299 | 4.9 |
| 2019 | 9 | #10,544 | 5.4 |
| 2018 | 7 | #12,563 | 4.1 |
| 2017 | 15 | #7,476 | 8.7 |
| 2016 | 10 | #10,160 | 5.6 |
| 2015 | 16 | #7,299 | 9.0 |
| 2014 | 15 | #7,671 | 8.4 |
Every recorded year (50)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | 24 | #5,504 | 13.7 |
| 2012 | 22 | #5,910 | 12.5 |
| 2011 | 22 | #5,950 | 12.5 |
| 2010 | 23 | #5,787 | 12.9 |
| 2009 | 24 | #5,721 | 13.1 |
| 2008 | 28 | #5,155 | 14.8 |
| 2007 | 30 | #4,821 | 15.6 |
| 2006 | 34 | #4,267 | 17.9 |
| 2005 | 34 | #4,120 | 18.4 |
| 2004 | 33 | #4,177 | 18.0 |
| 2003 | 38 | #3,661 | 20.8 |
| 2002 | 35 | #3,730 | 19.5 |
| 2001 | 32 | #3,944 | 17.8 |
| 2000 | 38 | #3,453 | 20.9 |
| 1999 | 38 | #3,312 | 21.4 |
| 1998 | 26 | #4,238 | 14.7 |
| 1997 | 32 | #3,550 | 18.4 |
| 1996 | 30 | #3,631 | 17.1 |
| 1995 | 25 | #4,102 | 14.2 |
| 1994 | 31 | #3,536 | 17.4 |
| 1993 | 30 | #3,591 | 16.6 |
| 1992 | 30 | #3,579 | 16.3 |
| 1991 | 28 | #3,717 | 14.9 |
| 1990 | 32 | #3,364 | 16.9 |
| 1989 | 27 | #3,672 | 14.6 |
| 1988 | 25 | #3,693 | 14.0 |
| 1987 | 20 | #4,123 | 11.5 |
| 1986 | 19 | #4,193 | 11.1 |
| 1985 | 23 | #3,623 | 13.4 |
| 1984 | 16 | #4,483 | 9.5 |
| 1983 | 10 | #6,240 | 6.0 |
| 1982 | 12 | #5,547 | 7.1 |
| 1981 | 7 | #8,164 | 4.2 |
| 1980 | 7 | #8,202 | 4.2 |
| 1979 | 7 | #8,082 | 4.4 |
| 1977 | 9 | #6,361 | 5.9 |
| 1976 | 8 | #6,633 | 5.5 |
| 1975 | 7 | #7,195 | 4.8 |
| 1974 | 6 | #7,709 | 4.1 |
| 1973 | 6 | #7,466 | 4.1 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Amrita a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Amrita has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 50 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Amrita: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Amrita, and how old are they?
1,010 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 1,027 Americans ever recorded as Amrita. The median Amrita alive today is 26 years old; half are between 19 and 35.
The 2020 Census counted 2,738 people named Amrita (2,725 women and girls, 13 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 986 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.8 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 | 47 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 356 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 484 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 122 |
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 Amrita born?
The states with the most babies named Amrita are California, New York and New Jersey, with 99% of its births recorded by state since 1910; New Jersey is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 198 | not ranked | 1.4× |
| New York | 154 | not ranked | 2.3× |
| New Jersey | 16 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Illinois | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
Where Amrita is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Amrita is most over-represented in New York: since 1973 it was given 2.3 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 Amrita 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 2 names spelled alike, given to 1,100 babies since 1880, Amrita is the most given (93% 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 Amrita
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 Amrita and names like it
- Compare Amrita and AmoritaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sAmrita peaked in 1999.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Amrita since 1910.
- Sanskrit namesWiktionary’s origin for Amrita: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1999The year the most babies were named Amrita.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Amrita alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with AMost given first.