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Amit

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Amit is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 15 births. Its best rank was 743rd, in 1983.

Rank in 2024
outside the top 1,000
Births in 2024
150.00% of boys
Peak year
1983135 births
Best rank
#743in 1983
Since 1965
3,093people given the name
Babies named Amit, by year of birthboys
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The story in the numbers

2,891 boys have been named Amit in the United States since 1965, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1983, with 135 births.

It is holding steady: its share of births has moved by less than half in either direction over ten years.

Half of everyone given the name was born by 1988, and the 1980s alone account for 35%. It has spent 9 of 145 years in the top 1,000.

It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 202 girls have also been given it, 6.5% of the total.

Rank among boys, year by year

Higher on the chart = more popularrank (gaps = outside the top 1,000)
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By decade

Decadeboys named Amit
1960s34
1970s481
1980s1,017
1990s588
2000s467
2010s246
2020s58

In 1983, its biggest year

Amit was the 743rd most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1983 were Michael, Christopher, Matthew, David and Joshua. See all of 1983.

Names that rose and fell with Amit

Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.

What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.