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AmitIn Hebrew: עמית · meaning, pronunciation and popularity in Israel

With vowel points: עָמִיתRomanization: amít

Amit (Hebrew: עמית) is a unisex name of Hebrew origin. 38,781 people born in Israel between 1949 and 2024 have it today, according to Israel's Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS). In 2024 it was given to 287 boys and ranked #67. Its peak year was 2000, with 1,304 babies.

People in Israel
38,781
born 1949–2024
Babies in 2024
287
rank #67
Peak year
2000
1,304 babies
USA, 2025
9
rank #8,243

Writing and saying Amit

In Hebrew letters the name is עמית, read right to left. Amit is the Latin spelling recorded by our review; families choose their own spelling in passports, so you may also meet other forms. Wiktionary romanizes it as "amít" (the accent marks the stressed syllable).

Meaning and origin

  • a male given name, Amit

Quoted from English Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0), unchanged.

Amit by year: Israel and abroad

How many boys out of every 10,000 born each year have the name. For Israel it counts the people born that year who carry the name today (the CBS counts residents by year of birth, not birth registrations).

Amit: rate per 10,000, 1950–2025

per 10,000 babies of the same sex

Amit in English-speaking countries

Amit in each official list: latest year, count, rank and peak
Country / regionYearBabiesRankPeak
United States20259#8,2431983 (135)

Counts for boys. The Hebrew page for Amit has every year and the other spellings.

Related Israeli names

Spelling variants and names that look or sound close in Hebrew.

Questions about Amit

How do you write Amit in Hebrew?

Amit is written עמית in Hebrew (with vowel points: עָמִית). Hebrew is read right to left. A dictionary romanization is "amít".

How many people in Israel are named Amit?

38,781 people born between 1949 and 2024 carry the name עמית: 12,674 women and 26,107 men. The count comes from the CBS table of current first names by year of birth; years with fewer than 5 people are not published.

Is Amit a boy's or a girl's name?

Both. In Israel 33% of the people named עמית are women and 67% are men, so we count it as unisex (our threshold: at least 20% of the less common sex).

What does the name Amit mean?

English Wiktionary describes it as: "a male given name, Amit"

Is Amit used outside Israel?

The name Amit appears in the official baby name lists of English-speaking countries. In the United States 9 boys were given it in 2025 (#8,243), per the Social Security Administration.

Sources

Israel: Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), current first names of people born 1949–2024 by sex, population group and year of birth, processed 2026-09-27. CBS publications.

Abroad

Counts are copied as published. We only merged accented spellings (Zoë = Zoe) and computed ranks and rates. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – British Columbia and the Open Government Licence – Alberta.