Meaning not yet researched.
Ameer: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 233 in 2025. Its best rank was #809 in 2018.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #809 in 2018; #980 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Ameer in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#980 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2018, at #809.
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Ameer: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 233 boys in 2025. Peak: #809 in 2018 · most boys in one year: 287 (2021).
In 2025, 233 US boys were named Ameer, making it the 980th most common boys’ name of the year, down 49 places from #931 in 2024. That is 15 fewer than the 248 boys named Ameer in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #809, reached in 2018. The most boys given the name in a single year was 287, in 2021. For comparison, it was #836 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Ameer in 57 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1969 with 14 babies. In all, 6,596 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 2,436 babies named Ameer.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 2,624 US boys were named Ameer; the busiest of those years was 2021, with 287. In 2025 that was about 1 in 7,331 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Ameer ranked highest in Michigan in 2025, at #375 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). Rarer spellings such as Ahmeer and Ameere are summarised on this page.
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.
Rare spellings summarised here: Ahmeer (127), Ameere (5).
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 Ameer 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 36 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Michigan | 23 | #375 | #365 |
| New York | 30 | #528 | #669 |
| Virginia | 11 | #630 | #621 |
| Pennsylvania | 13 | #663 | #657 |
| Illinois | 13 | #681 | #507 |
| Missouri | 7 | #712 | #523 |
| New Jersey | 7 | #831 | #514 |
| Indiana | 6 | #853 | — |
| California | 25 | #908 | #1,085 |
| Ohio | 7 | #1,019 | #650 |
| Tennessee | 5 | #1,045 | — |
| Texas | 20 | #1,097 | #876 |
| Florida | 11 | #1,128 | #839 |
| North Carolina | 6 | #1,149 | #1,126 |
| Georgia | 5 | #1,358 | #789 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 233 | #980 |
| 2024 | — | — | 248 | #931 |
| 2023 | — | — | 237 | #953 |
| 2022 | — | — | 256 | #905 |
| 2021 | — | — | 287 | #829 |
| 2020 | — | — | 273 | #833 |
| 2019 | — | — | 249 | #882 |
| 2018 | — | — | 278 | #809 |
| 2017 | — | — | 279 | #812 |
| 2016 | — | — | 284 | #809 |
| 2015 | — | — | 269 | #836 |
| 2014 | — | — | 225 | #936 |
| 2013 | — | — | 228 | #911 |
| 2012 | — | — | 207 | #971 |
| 2011 | — | — | 192 | #1,008 |
| 2010 | — | — | 225 | #906 |
| 2009 | — | — | 167 | #1,104 |
| 2008 | — | — | 152 | #1,175 |
| 2007 | — | — | 154 | #1,153 |
| 2006 | — | — | 149 | #1,141 |
| 2005 | — | — | 130 | #1,217 |
| 2004 | — | — | 127 | #1,203 |
| 2003 | — | — | 123 | #1,197 |
| 2002 | — | — | 117 | #1,192 |
| 2001 | — | — | 116 | #1,178 |
| 2000 | — | — | 120 | #1,152 |
| 1999 | — | — | 104 | #1,216 |
| 1998 | — | — | 96 | #1,261 |
| 1997 | — | — | 83 | #1,345 |
| 1996 | — | — | 76 | #1,388 |
| 1995 | — | — | 66 | #1,467 |
| 1994 | — | — | 63 | #1,495 |
| 1993 | — | — | 63 | #1,473 |
| 1992 | — | — | 64 | #1,430 |
| 1991 | — | — | 53 | #1,589 |
| 1990 | — | — | 44 | #1,780 |
| 1989 | — | — | 46 | #1,680 |
| 1988 | — | — | 45 | #1,592 |
| 1987 | — | — | 27 | #2,169 |
| 1986 | — | — | 25 | #2,227 |
| 1985 | — | — | 35 | #1,724 |
| 1984 | — | — | 21 | #2,366 |
| 1983 | — | — | 42 | #1,472 |
| 1982 | — | — | 39 | #1,567 |
| 1981 | — | — | 26 | #2,039 |
| 1980 | — | — | 37 | #1,593 |
| 1979 | — | — | 26 | #1,992 |
| 1978 | — | — | 29 | #1,795 |
| 1977 | — | — | 34 | #1,607 |
| 1976 | — | — | 40 | #1,411 |
| 1975 | — | — | 13 | #2,908 |
| 1974 | — | — | 13 | #2,806 |
| 1973 | — | — | 7 | #4,071 |
| 1972 | — | — | 9 | #3,354 |
| 1971 | — | — | 14 | #2,559 |
| 1970 | — | — | 17 | #2,214 |
| 1969 | — | — | 14 | #2,311 |
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).