About the name Amethyst
Amethyst belongs to the English & American tradition. Its roots are documented, even though its precise meaning is not recorded in the standard references — an honest gap we prefer to a confident guess.
In the United States, Amethyst first appears in Social Security records in 1967. It climbed to its best-ever rank of #1069 in 2022, and in 2024 173 babies received the name — 4,376 in total since 1880. Those are the official counts, not estimates.