Given name
Amitabh
“of unmeasured splendour”
Amitabh is used as a given name. One Sanskrit interpretation is “of unmeasured splendour.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One Sanskrit interpretation is “of unmeasured splendour.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Sanskrit.
How it developed
It comes from the Sanskrit word amitabha, meaning “meaning.”
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1972. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Amitabh through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 12
- 12 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1972
- 6 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 6 in 1976. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 337 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Amitabh’s family of names
In English usage, Amitabh has a diminutive in Amit.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Amitabh
- Amitabh BachchanIndian film actor (born 1942)
- Amitabh BhattacharyaLyricist and singer who works in Bollywood filmsborn 1977
- Amitabh ThakurIndian police officerborn 1968
- Amitabh MitraSouth African poet
- Amitabh Reza ChowdhuryBangladeshi Film directorborn 1976
- Amitabh KantIndian officialborn 1956
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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