Meaning not yet researched.
Amir: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 3,297 in 2025. Its best rank was #95 in 2024.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #95 in 2024; #105 in 2025. About 99.6% of babies named Amir in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#105 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2024, at #95.
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Amir: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 3,297 boys in 2025. Peak: #95 in 2024 · most boys in one year: 3,640 (2024).
In 2025, 3,297 US boys were named Amir, making it the 105th most common boys’ name of the year, down 10 places from #95 in 2024. That is 343 fewer than the 3,640 boys named Amir in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #95, reached in 2024. That year also had the most boys given the name: 3,640. For comparison, it was #187 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Amir in 68 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1954 with 5 babies. In all, 56,257 US babies have been given the name, 0.9% of them girls and 99% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 20,646 babies named Amir.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 30,773 US boys were named Amir; the busiest of those years was 2024, with 3,640. In 2025 that was about 1 in 518 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Amir ranked highest in District of Columbia in 2025, at #18 for boys there. It was in the top 100 in 17 states (counting DC). Related spellings in the SSA files include Emir (5,620 babies since 1880), Ameer (6,596 babies since 1880), Amare (6,536 babies since 1880) and Amar (5,334 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Amer, Amire and Ameir are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
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Rare spellings summarised here: Amer (1,450), Amire (942), Ameir (843), Amier (662), Amaar (458), Aimar (437), Amyr (333), Aymar (332), Amiir (281), Ahmar (239), Amirr (175), Amair (152), and more.
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 Amir 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 7 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| District of Columbia | 25 | #18 | #41 |
| Louisiana | 90 | #32 | #150 |
| Mississippi | 52 | #37 | #152 |
| Maryland | 110 | #40 | #90 |
| Georgia | 185 | #50 | #87 |
| Rhode Island | 17 | #52 | #192 |
| South Carolina | 77 | #58 | #110 |
| Florida | 320 | #61 | #109 |
| New York | 240 | #69 | #104 |
| Illinois | 145 | #77 | #110 |
| Connecticut | 45 | #80 | #136 |
| North Carolina | 147 | #81 | #130 |
| Alabama | 60 | #84 | #163 |
| Minnesota | 69 | #88 | #338 |
| Michigan | 101 | #90 | #122 |
| Massachusetts | 69 | #100 | #217 |
| Virginia | 85 | #100 | #121 |
| Ohio | 125 | #103 | #168 |
| Nevada | 30 | #105 | #117 |
| Arkansas | 31 | #110 | #212 |
| Arizona | 72 | #118 | #260 |
| Texas | 319 | #122 | #267 |
| Delaware | 8 | #126 | #158 |
| Wisconsin | 45 | #136 | #220 |
| Missouri | 53 | #137 | #202 |
| Tennessee | 67 | #140 | #213 |
| Indiana | 57 | #141 | #276 |
| Washington | 57 | #143 | #397 |
| California | 263 | #145 | #299 |
| Pennsylvania | 79 | #163 | #181 |
| North Dakota | 7 | #170 | #247 |
| New Jersey | 57 | #177 | #143 |
| Kansas | 21 | #189 | #391 |
| Kentucky | 29 | #193 | #245 |
| Oklahoma | 24 | #201 | #352 |
| Oregon | 19 | #220 | — |
| New Hampshire | 5 | #233 | — |
| New Mexico | 8 | #236 | — |
| Colorado | 27 | #237 | #521 |
| South Dakota | 5 | #259 | — |
| Iowa | 13 | #293 | #379 |
| Nebraska | 7 | #337 | #433 |
| Utah | 12 | #378 | — |
| Idaho | 6 | #378 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 11 | #8,899 | 3,297 | #105 |
| 2024 | 7 | #12,248 | 3,640 | #95 |
| 2023 | 16 | #6,956 | 3,631 | #99 |
| 2022 | 13 | #8,060 | 3,353 | #113 |
| 2021 | 15 | #7,281 | 3,026 | #123 |
| 2020 | 16 | #6,950 | 3,182 | #117 |
| 2019 | 9 | #10,547 | 2,971 | #131 |
| 2018 | 12 | #8,657 | 2,608 | #150 |
| 2017 | 21 | #5,840 | 2,619 | #150 |
| 2016 | 17 | #6,924 | 2,446 | #165 |
| 2015 | 14 | #8,036 | 2,221 | #187 |
| 2014 | 17 | #7,008 | 1,819 | #212 |
| 2013 | 23 | #5,658 | 1,726 | #216 |
| 2012 | 20 | #6,360 | 1,468 | #248 |
| 2011 | 16 | #7,463 | 1,385 | #250 |
| 2010 | 16 | #7,550 | 1,218 | #278 |
| 2009 | 13 | #8,926 | 1,215 | #279 |
| 2008 | 24 | #5,765 | 1,126 | #296 |
| 2007 | 11 | #10,174 | 1,011 | #317 |
| 2006 | 16 | #7,505 | 987 | #326 |
| 2005 | 12 | #8,922 | 872 | #339 |
| 2004 | 27 | #4,830 | 843 | #340 |
| 2003 | 17 | #6,601 | 819 | #340 |
| 2002 | 24 | #4,913 | 742 | #359 |
| 2001 | 15 | #6,977 | 651 | #391 |
| 2000 | 8 | #10,806 | 603 | #413 |
| 1999 | 21 | #5,048 | 610 | #400 |
| 1998 | 14 | #6,738 | 516 | #443 |
| 1997 | 14 | #6,505 | 413 | #502 |
| 1996 | 7 | #10,634 | 359 | #536 |
| 1995 | 8 | #9,620 | 340 | #551 |
| 1994 | 7 | #10,624 | 330 | #564 |
| 1993 | 8 | #9,607 | 265 | #634 |
| 1992 | 5 | #13,399 | 253 | #650 |
| 1991 | — | — | 254 | #642 |
| 1990 | — | — | 275 | #606 |
| 1989 | — | — | 259 | #615 |
| 1988 | — | — | 215 | #644 |
| 1987 | 5 | #11,388 | 199 | #646 |
| 1986 | — | — | 209 | #620 |
| 1985 | — | — | 174 | #672 |
| 1984 | 5 | #10,490 | 204 | #592 |
| 1983 | 6 | #9,059 | 166 | #664 |
| 1982 | — | — | 137 | #755 |
| 1981 | — | — | 150 | #706 |
| 1980 | — | — | 130 | #769 |
| 1979 | — | — | 115 | #812 |
| 1978 | — | — | 104 | #841 |
| 1977 | — | — | 85 | #923 |
| 1976 | — | — | 69 | #998 |
| 1975 | — | — | 67 | #1,001 |
| 1974 | — | — | 56 | #1,099 |
| 1973 | — | — | 41 | #1,295 |
| 1972 | — | — | 42 | #1,287 |
| 1971 | — | — | 48 | #1,182 |
| 1970 | — | — | 28 | #1,617 |
| 1969 | — | — | 29 | #1,494 |
| 1968 | — | — | 18 | #1,897 |
| 1967 | — | — | 24 | #1,575 |
| 1966 | — | — | 18 | #1,816 |
| 1965 | — | — | 12 | #2,367 |
| 1964 | — | — | 12 | #2,412 |
| 1963 | — | — | 13 | #2,303 |
| 1962 | — | — | 7 | #3,315 |
| 1961 | — | — | 5 | #4,082 |
| 1960 | — | — | 6 | #3,675 |
| 1955 | — | — | 6 | #3,517 |
| 1954 | — | — | 5 | #3,842 |
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).