Amethyst
given name · Latin script
Meaning: A transparent purple to violet variety of quartz with traces of manganese, used as a gemstone
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/æməθɪst/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Amethyst is a given name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States.
- USUnited States
- PHPhilippines
- AUAustralia
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
A transparent purple to violet variety of quartz with traces of manganese, used as a gemstone.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 11 languages in the etymology graph.
Often considered alongside
Names that people choosing a name often weigh against Amethyst, most often first. They share a style rather than an origin.
From the names suggested together in public name-advice forums, in English. A list of what people consider, not a measure of how common any name is.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Recorded in:
No national register we accept counts this name’s bearers, so the page lists where it is found and publishes no figure.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Amethyst is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, After the gemstone
as a nameBaby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…
In German, weibl. Vom. nach dem gleichlau tenden Edelstein.
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Amethyst Bradley Ralanib. 1987ZAassociation football player
- Iggy Azaleab. 1990AUnot in their usual nameAustralian rapper (born 1990)
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 14 sources across 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 2.8K | #5,924 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2022 | 235 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2021 | 215 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2023 | 206 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2019 | 189 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2020 | 184 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 181 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2017 | 177 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2024 | 176 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2018 | 168 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2016 | 160 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2015 | 128 | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Is Amethyst a male or female name?
- Amethyst is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What does the name Amethyst mean, and where does it come from?
- A transparent purple to violet variety of quartz with traces of manganese, used as a gemstone. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Amethyst?
- A machine transcription gives /æməθɪst/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Amethyst have the most bearers?
- Amethyst is most frequently recorded in the United States.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/amethystThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Amethyst”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.