# Amit (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/amit/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys |
| Origin | Sanskrit |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 3,101 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 2,899 / 202 (7% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 214, 1996 to 2025 |

## Etymology

Transliteration of Hindi अमित (amit), Marathi अमित (amit), Gujarati અમિત (amit), Bengali অমিত (omito), etc.

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 19 | 5,717 |
| 2001 | 12 | 8,231 |
| 2002 | 8 | 11,186 |
| 2003 | 8 | 11,379 |
| 2004 | 9 | 10,759 |
| 2006 | 12 | 9,331 |
| 2007 | 7 | 14,034 |
| 2008 | 11 | 10,130 |
| 2009 | 5 | 17,499 |
| 2010 | 7 | 13,565 |
| 2011 | 9 | 11,249 |
| 2012 | 5 | 17,077 |
| 2015 | 5 | 16,604 |
| 2016 | 7 | 12,995 |
| 2017 | 8 | 11,706 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 43 | 2,754 |
| 2012 | 29 | 3,626 |
| 2013 | 31 | 3,407 |
| 2014 | 27 | 3,790 |
| 2015 | 16 | 5,521 |
| 2016 | 17 | 5,329 |
| 2017 | 21 | 4,601 |
| 2018 | 18 | 5,115 |
| 2019 | 16 | 5,561 |
| 2020 | 9 | 8,114 |
| 2021 | 16 | 5,575 |
| 2022 | 12 | 6,848 |
| 2023 | 6 | 10,898 |
| 2024 | 15 | 5,920 |
| 2025 | 9 | 8,296 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2002 | 13 | 1,190 |
| 2003 | 9 | 1,629 |
| 2004 | 15 | 1,222 |
| 2005 | 11 | 1,617 |
| 2006 | 11 | 1,643 |
| 2007 | 3 | 4,333 |
| 2008 | 8 | 2,276 |
| 2009 | 9 | 2,126 |
| 2010 | 7 | 2,629 |
| 2012 | 6 | 3,039 |
| 2013 | 4 | 3,822 |
| 2014 | 3 | 4,632 |
| 2016 | 3 | 4,810 |
| 2017 | 4 | 3,996 |
| 2018 | 3 | 4,749 |

## People named Amit

- Amit Elor, American wrestler (born 2004)
- Amit Chaudhuri, contemporary Indian-English novelist
- Amit Guluzade, Azerbaijani footballer
- Amit Farkash, Canadian-born Israeli actress and singer
- Amit Singh Bakshi, field hockey player (1925–2024)
- Amit Shah, British actor
- Amit Singhal, American computer engineer

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.