Given name & surname
Amit
“without limit; endless”
Amit is used as a given name and a surname. One Hindi interpretation is “without limit; endless.”
Original Hindiअमित
Meaning & origin
What it means
One Hindi interpretation is “without limit; endless.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Hindi.
How it developed
In English usage, Amit is a diminutive of Amitabh.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1965. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Amit through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 3,101
- 2,899 boys · 202 girls
- Most popular year
- 1983
- 135 babies
- 2025
- 9
- #8,296 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- −40%
- Cooling
Boys, girls and both
The balance of boys and girls given this name has shifted over time. Recent births are 90% boys.
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 9 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 8,296 among boys’ names. Average annual use for boys was 28.4% lower in 2021–2025 than in 2016–2020. Its largest published annual count for boys was 135 in 1983. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 11,285 as a first name in 2020; 270 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Amit’s family of names
In English usage, Amit is a diminutive of Amitabh. Amit has a feminine form in Amita. Amit has a related form in Ameet.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 6
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 2
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Amit
- Amit ShahIndian politician and 32nd Union Minister of Home Affairsborn 1964
- Amit RohidasIndian field hockey playerborn 1993
- Amit TrivediIndian film score composer, music director, singer and lyricistborn 1979
- Amit MishraIndian cricket player (born 1982)
- Amit PanghalIndian amateur boxerborn 1995
- Amit ElorAmerican wrestler (born 2004)
- Amit Chaudhuricontemporary Indian-English novelistborn 1962
- Amit GuluzadeAzerbaijani footballerborn 1992
- Amit GoswamiIndian-American physicist and writer (born 1936)
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
Appears in
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