Entry № 556 · English origin

Amity Amity — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ AM-ih-tee /
Gender
Girl
Origin
English
Meaning
"Friendship, harmony"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Traditional

A name that means "friendship, harmony".

Amity means friendship and peaceful harmony, from the Latin amicitia — a warm, gentle virtue name.

Friendship, harmony — a English name.

The name in its native script.

Amity
Transliteration
Amity
Pronunciation
/ ˈa.mi.ti /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Amity stands.

Amity does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Amitys before her.

Real people

In fiction

Names connected to Amity.

The number behind Amity.

5

The Seeker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Amity reduce to 5, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.