Given name
Amrita
“having immortality; full of ambrosia”
Amrita is used as a given name. One Hindi interpretation is “having immortality; full of ambrosia.”
Original Hindiअमृत
Meaning & origin
What it means
One Hindi interpretation is “having immortality; full of ambrosia.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Hindi.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1973. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Amrita through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 1,027
- 0 boys · 1,027 girls
- Most popular year
- 1999
- 38 babies
- 2025
- 5
- #15,106 for girls
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- −34%
- Easing
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 5 U.S. birth records for girls, ranking No. 15,106 among girls’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 2,738 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.
Amrita’s family of names
Amrita has a related form in Amrit. Amrita has a related form in Amreata. Amrita has a related form in Amreatah.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 16
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 2
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Amrita
- Amrita Sher-GilHungarian-Indian painter (1913–1941)
- Amrita PritamIndian novelist, poet, and essayist (in Hindi and Punjabi languages) (1919–2005)
- Amrita RaoIndian actress and modelborn 1981
- Amrita SinghIndian film and television actressborn 1958
- Amrita AroraIndian actressborn 1981
- Amrita AchariaNorwegian actressborn 1987
- Amrita PuriIndian actressborn 1983
- Amrita PrakashIndian actressborn 1987
- Amrita PatelIndian businesspersonborn 1943
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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