Given name
Amity
“a dear friendship”
Amity is used as a given name. One Latin interpretation is “a dear friendship.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One Latin interpretation is “a dear friendship.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Latin.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1960. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Amity through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 2,163
- 0 boys · 2,163 girls
- Most popular year
- 1979
- 119 babies
- 2025
- 36
- #3,982 for girls
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- +47%
- Rising
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 36 U.S. birth records for girls, ranking No. 3,982 among girls’ names. Average annual use for girls was 46.6% higher in 2021–2025 than in 2016–2020. Its largest published annual count for girls was 119 in 1979. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 1,728 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.
Amity’s family of names
Amity has a related form in Amitai. Amity has a related form in Amite. Amity has a related form in Amitea.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 18
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.
See also 1
Names our sources mention alongside this one. They are related in story or meaning, not forms of this name.
People named Amity
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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