Meaning not yet researched.
Ameerah: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 73 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,718 in 2018.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,718 in 2018; #2,440 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Ameerah in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,440 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2018, at #1,718.
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Ameerah: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 73 girls in 2025. Peak: #1,718 in 2018 · most girls in one year: 120 (2022).
In 2025, 73 US girls were named Ameerah, making it the 2,440th most common girls’ name of the year, down 485 places from #1,955 in 2024. That is 28 fewer than the 101 girls named Ameerah in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,718, reached in 2018. The most girls given the name in a single year was 120, in 2022. For comparison, it was #2,278 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Ameerah in 50 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1976 with 16 babies. In all, 2,645 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 953 babies named Ameerah.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,046 US girls were named Ameerah; the busiest of those years was 2022, with 120. In 2025 that was about 1 in 22,017 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Ameerah ranked highest in New York in 2025, at #984 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Amirah (10,863 babies since 1880), Ameera (3,447 babies since 1880), Amarah (2,641 babies since 1880) and Amyrah (983 babies since 1880).
Meaning not yet researched.
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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 Ameerah in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 47 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 15 | #984 | #1,624 |
| Michigan | 5 | #1,224 | — |
| California | 5 | #3,137 | #2,741 |
| Texas | 5 | #3,324 | #2,380 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 73 | #2,440 | — | — |
| 2024 | 101 | #1,955 | — | — |
| 2023 | 99 | #1,985 | — | — |
| 2022 | 120 | #1,731 | — | — |
| 2021 | 117 | #1,750 | — | — |
| 2020 | 115 | #1,743 | — | — |
| 2019 | 97 | #1,987 | — | — |
| 2018 | 120 | #1,718 | — | — |
| 2017 | 103 | #1,943 | — | — |
| 2016 | 101 | #1,972 | — | — |
| 2015 | 82 | #2,278 | — | — |
| 2014 | 88 | #2,154 | — | — |
| 2013 | 117 | #1,754 | — | — |
| 2012 | 105 | #1,904 | — | — |
| 2011 | 81 | #2,300 | — | — |
| 2010 | 59 | #2,907 | — | — |
| 2009 | 74 | #2,533 | — | — |
| 2008 | 85 | #2,295 | — | — |
| 2007 | 81 | #2,350 | — | — |
| 2006 | 91 | #2,128 | — | — |
| 2005 | 79 | #2,278 | — | — |
| 2004 | 65 | #2,558 | — | — |
| 2003 | 54 | #2,842 | — | — |
| 2002 | 42 | #3,286 | — | — |
| 2001 | 32 | #3,947 | — | — |
| 2000 | 41 | #3,271 | — | — |
| 1999 | 36 | #3,443 | — | — |
| 1998 | 23 | #4,645 | — | — |
| 1997 | 26 | #4,131 | — | — |
| 1996 | 26 | #4,064 | — | — |
| 1995 | 18 | #5,228 | — | — |
| 1994 | 14 | #6,338 | — | — |
| 1993 | 16 | #5,685 | — | — |
| 1992 | 13 | #6,670 | — | — |
| 1991 | 7 | #10,316 | — | — |
| 1990 | 13 | #6,478 | — | — |
| 1989 | 15 | #5,554 | — | — |
| 1988 | 9 | #7,719 | — | — |
| 1987 | 7 | #8,814 | — | — |
| 1986 | 11 | #6,183 | — | — |
| 1985 | 13 | #5,366 | — | — |
| 1984 | 15 | #4,744 | — | — |
| 1983 | 23 | #3,435 | — | — |
| 1982 | 17 | #4,353 | — | — |
| 1981 | 12 | #5,583 | — | — |
| 1980 | 26 | #3,217 | — | — |
| 1979 | 25 | #3,242 | — | — |
| 1978 | 22 | #3,391 | — | — |
| 1977 | 20 | #3,614 | — | — |
| 1976 | 16 | #3,970 | — | — |
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).