Meaning not yet researched.
Ahmir: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 163 in 2025. Its best rank was #873 in 2022.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #873 in 2022; #1,231 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Ahmir in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,231 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2022, at #873.
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Ahmir: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 163 boys in 2025. Peak: #873 in 2022 · most boys in one year: 276 (2022).
In 2025, 163 US boys were named Ahmir, making it the 1,231st most common boys’ name of the year, down 200 places from #1,031 in 2024. That is 53 fewer than the 216 boys named Ahmir in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #873, reached in 2022. That year also had the most boys given the name: 276. For comparison, it was #1,049 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Ahmir in 35 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1991 with 10 babies. In all, 3,819 US babies have been given the name, 0.1% of them girls and 99.8% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 1,631 babies named Ahmir.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 2,199 US boys were named Ahmir; the busiest of those years was 2022, with 276. In 2025 that was about 1 in 10,479 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Ahmir ranked highest in Louisiana in 2025, at #451 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Amir (56,257 babies since 1880), Amar (5,334 babies since 1880), Ammar (3,083 babies since 1880) and Amor (2,958 babies since 1880).
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Ahmir in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 39 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Louisiana | 10 | #451 | #708 |
| Mississippi | 6 | #471 | — |
| Maryland | 9 | #518 | #709 |
| Virginia | 9 | #731 | #671 |
| New Jersey | 8 | #769 | #853 |
| Florida | 17 | #846 | #657 |
| Pennsylvania | 9 | #847 | #1,035 |
| Georgia | 9 | #920 | #543 |
| North Carolina | 8 | #940 | #658 |
| Illinois | 7 | #1,025 | #1,076 |
| Texas | 16 | #1,252 | #1,446 |
| California | 9 | #1,691 | #1,877 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 163 | #1,231 |
| 2024 | — | — | 216 | #1,031 |
| 2023 | — | — | 237 | #952 |
| 2022 | — | — | 276 | #873 |
| 2021 | — | — | 230 | #968 |
| 2020 | — | — | 235 | #935 |
| 2019 | — | — | 213 | #991 |
| 2018 | — | — | 214 | #970 |
| 2017 | — | — | 195 | #1,030 |
| 2016 | — | — | 220 | #946 |
| 2015 | — | — | 189 | #1,049 |
| 2014 | — | — | 138 | #1,286 |
| 2013 | — | — | 145 | #1,233 |
| 2012 | — | — | 100 | #1,575 |
| 2011 | — | — | 102 | #1,544 |
| 2010 | — | — | 115 | #1,438 |
| 2009 | — | — | 108 | #1,529 |
| 2008 | 5 | #17,586 | 71 | #1,982 |
| 2007 | — | — | 101 | #1,552 |
| 2006 | — | — | 69 | #1,945 |
| 2005 | — | — | 59 | #2,081 |
| 2004 | — | — | 48 | #2,345 |
| 2003 | — | — | 52 | #2,128 |
| 2002 | — | — | 58 | #1,916 |
| 2001 | — | — | 52 | #2,028 |
| 2000 | — | — | 54 | #1,925 |
| 1999 | — | — | 38 | #2,348 |
| 1998 | — | — | 31 | #2,651 |
| 1997 | — | — | 18 | #3,738 |
| 1996 | — | — | 21 | #3,296 |
| 1995 | — | — | 12 | #4,795 |
| 1994 | — | — | 13 | #4,538 |
| 1993 | — | — | 5 | #8,721 |
| 1992 | — | — | 6 | #7,446 |
| 1991 | — | — | 10 | #5,102 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).