Amrit
The name means "immortal". In Poland it barely registers: around 100 people carry it, almost all of them men, so most Poles have never met one.
Amrit Pronunciation
Amrit is pronounced AHM-reet (/ˈamrit/).
What Amrit means
Where Amrit comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Amrit comes from Sanskrit amṛta, built from a-, a negation, and mṛta, 'dead.' The word therefore reads as 'not dead,' which Polish renders as nieśmiertelny and English as immortal. Its relatives sit deep in other languages. The Greek ambrosia, the food that kept the gods from dying, grows from the same root, as does the mortal in Latin mortalis. The English mortal and murder reach back to the same mṛta.
In Sikh tradition the word names amrit, the sweetened water used in the initiation rite called Amrit Sanchar. A child called Amrit carries that vocabulary of the undying rather than any single story about a saint or king.
On a Polish class register the name is short and unhyphenated. It asks for no diminutive and has none. The meaning stays plain: immortal, nieśmiertelny.
How many people are named Amrit
1 in 232024 men in Poland is named Amrit. 102 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #3393 among male names.
Amrit's popularity over time
Fewer than 2 boys were given the name in 2025. It has been stable for a decade.
Amrit as a middle name
Amrit is a first name for 102 men in Poland and a middle name for another 2, a 98/2 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 5494th, between Amra (2) and Ana Maria (2).
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#5492 Amora2
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#5493 Amra2
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#5494 Amrit2
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#5495 Ana Maria2
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#5496 Anaid2