Amity
Meaning
friendship, peaceful relations (from Old French amité)
Popularity, 1890–2024
Shape drawn from US Social Security baby-name records. Amity peaked in the 2020s.
When you meet Amity
Most people given the name Amity in the United States were born between 1970 and 2019. The Amity you meet today is most often in her 20s or 30s.
Estimated from US Social Security birth registrations and typical lifespans; a rough guide, not a rule.
The Amity deep dive
Whether you’re naming a baby or exploring your own name’s history, this is a personal letter, not a list: where Amity truly comes from, how it traveled, and what a century of records reveals. If you have grown a tree on nametree, it also considers how Amity fits with your family’s names and surname.
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