Amethyst is the beautiful purple gem and Februarys birthstone; its Greek name means not intoxicated, from an old belief it guarded against drunkenness.
Regal and calming, it is one of the loveliest of the jewel names.
Amethyst 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.
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In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Amethyst reduce to 3, The Communicator. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.