Meaning & origin
How it developed
A transliteration of Bengali অমর্ত্য (ômôrtô).
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 2005. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Amartya through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 41
- 41 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2005
- 7 babies
- 2025
- 6
- #10,769 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 6 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 10,769 among boys’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Amartya’s family of names
The ring: across languages.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Amartya
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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