Amethyst
#1,241 for girls in 2025, 181 births · Last seen for boys in 2023 at #10,821
Given to girls 99.7% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 2022 · 235 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 4,560since 1967
Amethyst over time
Rank among girls' names. Amethyst has never cracked the top 1,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #1,241 | 181 | — | |
| 2024 | #1,305 | 176 | — | |
| 2023 | #1,168 | 206 | #10,821 | 6 |
| 2022 | #1,069 | 235 | #12,330 | 5 |
| 2021 | #1,143 | 215 | #12,146 | 5 |
| 2020 | #1,236 | 184 | — | |
| 2019 | #1,239 | 189 | — | |
| 2018 | #1,338 | 168 | — | |
| 2017 | #1,317 | 177 | — | |
| 2016 | #1,439 | 160 | — | |
| 2015 | #1,667 | 128 | — | |
| 2014 | #2,049 | 95 | — | |
| 2013 | #3,005 | 55 | — | |
| 2012 | #2,449 | 75 | — | |
| 2011 | #2,796 | 62 | — | |
| 2010 | #2,803 | 62 | — | |
| 2009 | #2,826 | 62 | — | |
| 2008 | #3,478 | 47 | — | |
| 2007 | #2,616 | 70 | — | |
| 2006 | #2,186 | 88 | — | |
| 2005 | #2,314 | 77 | — | |
| 2004 | #1,925 | 97 | — | |
| 2003 | #1,786 | 105 | — | |
| 2002 | #1,821 | 98 | — | |
| 2001 | #1,851 | 95 | — | |
| 2000 | #1,817 | 95 | — | |
| 1999 | #1,636 | 102 | — | |
| 1998 | #1,667 | 96 | — | |
| 1997 | #1,562 | 103 | — | |
| 1996 | #1,702 | 89 | — | |
| 1995 | #1,669 | 88 | — | |
| 1994 | #1,707 | 87 | — | |
| 1993 | #1,694 | 88 | — | |
| 1992 | #1,643 | 92 | — | |
| 1991 | #1,857 | 76 | — | |
| 1990 | #1,862 | 76 | — | |
| 1989 | #1,981 | 64 | — | |
| 1988 | #2,216 | 51 | — | |
| 1987 | #3,101 | 30 | — | |
| 1986 | #2,620 | 37 | — | |
| 1985 | #2,860 | 32 | — | |
| 1984 | #2,515 | 37 | — | |
| 1983 | #4,109 | 18 | — | |
| 1982 | #2,770 | 33 | — | |
| 1981 | #3,739 | 21 | — | |
| 1980 | #3,609 | 22 | — | |
| 1979 | #4,626 | 15 | — | |
| 1978 | #4,679 | 14 | — | |
| 1977 | #4,425 | 15 | — | |
| 1976 | #4,154 | 15 | — | |
| 1975 | #3,774 | 17 | — | |
| 1974 | #5,776 | 9 | — | |
| 1973 | #5,191 | 10 | — | |
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| 1971 | #8,324 | 5 | — | |
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| 1969 | #7,471 | 5 | — | |
| 1968 | #6,246 | 6 | — | |
| 1967 | #6,804 | 5 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Amethyst! It came in at #6,804, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1969–1972, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Amethyst is popular in 2022
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
Hover or tap a state for its numbers.
- Indiana#624 · 1 in 2,813
- Colorado#765 · 1 in 3,636
- Tennessee#820 · 1 in 3,944
- Minnesota#847 · 1 in 4,374
- Alabama#856 · 1 in 3,839
Best ever in a state: #252 in New Mexico, 2017.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Indiana | #624 | 10 | 1 in 2,813 |
| Colorado | #765 | 6 | 1 in 3,636 |
| Tennessee | #820 | 8 | 1 in 3,944 |
| Minnesota | #847 | 5 | 1 in 4,374 |
| Alabama | #856 | 5 | 1 in 3,839 |
| Texas | #857 | 36 | 1 in 4,521 |
| Michigan | #881 | 8 | 1 in 4,632 |
| North Carolina | #886 | 10 | 1 in 4,548 |
| Illinois | #900 | 10 | 1 in 4,670 |
| Missouri | #921 | 5 | 1 in 4,843 |
| Arizona | #930 | 6 | 1 in 4,708 |
| California | #1,009 | 29 | 1 in 5,992 |
| Florida | #1,057 | 14 | 1 in 6,153 |
| Washington | #1,071 | 5 | 1 in 5,748 |
| Pennsylvania | #1,124 | 7 | 1 in 6,854 |
| Georgia | #1,176 | 7 | 1 in 6,543 |
| New Jersey | #1,212 | 5 | 1 in 7,346 |
| Virginia | #1,215 | 5 | 1 in 6,974 |
| New York | #1,411 | 9 | 1 in 8,897 |
| Ohio | #1,423 | 5 | 1 in 9,525 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Amethyst
- 64 spots since 2024 (#1,305 → #1,241)
- 5 spots since 2020 (#1,236 → #1,241)
- 426 spots since 2015 (#1,667 → #1,241)
- Debuted 1967
- Peaked 2022 at #1,069 (235 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 6,979 girls born in 2022 were named Amethyst (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 8,880 girls born in 2025 (0.01%)
- 26.3% of all girls named Amethyst (1,197) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 16 | #6,246 (1968) | #6,840 |
| 1970s | 100 | #3,774 (1975) | #5,119 |
| 1980s | 345 | #1,981 (1989) | #2,952 |
| 1990s | 897 | #1,562 (1997) | #1,700 |
| 2000s | 834 | #1,786 (2003) | #2,262 |
| 2010s | 1,171 | #1,239 (2019) | #2,010 |
| 2020s | 1,197 | #1,069 (2022) | #1,194 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Amethyst in 2022
Top girls' names in 2022
Top boys' names in 2022
More about 2022
girls
1,640,131 girls got a published name in 2022; 1 in 6,979 of them was named Amethyst, which outranked 94.0% of the 17,760 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.4% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
boys
1,746,008 boys got a published name in 2022; 1 in 349,202 of them was named Amethyst, which outranked 14.0% of the 14,333 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.7% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
Tied with 2,003 names at #12,330; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.