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Amrita

Girls' name · Millennial-era · Sanskrit origin

Living in the US
~1,000 survival-weighted estimate
2025 rank
#14,942 among girls
Births in 2025
5 1,027 since 1880
Typical age
25 years, median

Amrita popularity over time

Amrita rank by birth year, 1973–2025Amrita ranked #7,435 in 1973 and #14,942 in 2025. Its best rank in the period was #3,313, in 1999.#10,000#14,942best #3,313 in 199919801990200020102020
Rank among US baby names by birth year, 1973–2025. Lower is more popular; the scale is logarithmic so the top of the chart is not compressed.

More children were named Amrita in 1999 than in any other year — 38 of them. It first clears the SSA reporting threshold in 1973. As of 2025 the name sits at #14,942, with 5 births that year.

Compared with 2015, births are down 69%. Year on year the rank dropped by 3820.

Babies named Amrita per yearPeaks at 38 births in 1999.38 in 1999019801990200020102020
Recorded US births by year. The peak is labelled; the axis starts at zero.

How many people are named Amrita?

Roughly 1,000 Amritas are alive in the US right now. That is out of 1,027 recorded births since 1880.

This is a survival-weighted estimate, not a headcount: every recorded birth year is multiplied by the chance someone born that year is still alive, using the SSA period life table. How the estimate works.

How old is the average Amrita?

The typical living Amrita is 25 years old. Most living bearers were born in the 2000s. By the site’s era rules that makes Amrita a millennial-era name.

Your Amrita

Ages of living people named AmritaHalf of living Amritas are older than 25 and half younger.median 2502040
Estimated living bearers by age today. Each bar is a birth year, weighted by the chance someone born then is still alive.

Amrita in England and Wales

ONS recorded 3 births named Amrita in 2025, ranking it #5,927. That is 70% lower than five years earlier.

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Counts below three are suppressed by ONS.

Where the name Amrita comes from

Borrowed from Sanskrit अमृता.

Etymology summarised from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0. Wiktionary entry.

See how Sanskrit names are used in American and British births on the Sanskrit names page.

Notable people named Amrita

Ordered by how many Wikipedia language editions have an article about them — a measure of reach, not of importance.
NameKnown forYearsEditions
Amrita Sher-Gil Hungarian-Indian painter 1913–1941 61
Amrita Pritam Indian novelist, poet, and essayist (in Hindi and Punjabi languages) 1919–2005 55
Amrita Rao Indian actress and model 1981 47
Amrita Singh Indian film and television actress 1958 41
Amrita Arora Indian actress 1981 35
Amrita Acharia Norwegian actress 1987 29
Amrita Prakash Indian actress 1987 20
Amrita Puri Indian actress 1983 20
Photo credits (7)

People and dates from Wikidata (CC0), limited to those with an English Wikipedia article who are known by this name as their first name.

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