Meaning not yet researched.
Amirah: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 603 in 2025. Its best rank was #458 in 2023.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #458 in 2023; #490 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Amirah in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#490 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2023, at #458.
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Amirah: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 603 girls in 2025. Peak: #458 in 2023 · most girls in one year: 678 (2024).
In 2025, 603 US girls were named Amirah, making it the 490th most common girls’ name of the year, down 26 places from #464 in 2024. That is 75 fewer than the 678 girls named Amirah in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #458, reached in 2023. The most girls given the name in a single year was 678, in 2024. For comparison, it was #670 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Amirah in 50 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1976 with 13 babies. In all, 10,863 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 3,977 babies named Amirah.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 5,249 US girls were named Amirah; the busiest of those years was 2024, with 678. In 2025 that was about 1 in 2,665 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Amirah ranked highest in Maryland in 2025, at #308 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Amara (29,279 babies since 1880), Amira (25,614 babies since 1880), Amora (9,416 babies since 1880) and Amyra (2,935 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Amourah, Amorrah and Aamorah 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: Amourah (75), Amorrah (10), Aamorah (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 Amirah 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 21 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Maryland | 17 | #308 | #239 |
| New York | 51 | #330 | #425 |
| Florida | 53 | #344 | #461 |
| Virginia | 21 | #378 | #476 |
| Mississippi | 7 | #388 | — |
| Ohio | 29 | #391 | #700 |
| Illinois | 26 | #403 | #538 |
| California | 81 | #404 | #1,296 |
| Massachusetts | 13 | #419 | #629 |
| New Jersey | 18 | #424 | #455 |
| Oklahoma | 9 | #442 | — |
| Minnesota | 11 | #462 | #615 |
| Connecticut | 6 | #464 | — |
| Pennsylvania | 22 | #467 | #376 |
| Georgia | 24 | #470 | #528 |
| Indiana | 14 | #486 | #621 |
| Washington | 13 | #513 | — |
| Michigan | 15 | #519 | #1,013 |
| Oregon | 6 | #552 | — |
| Iowa | 5 | #570 | — |
| Alabama | 8 | #578 | — |
| Texas | 53 | #598 | #931 |
| Tennessee | 12 | #606 | #514 |
| Kentucky | 6 | #657 | — |
| Arizona | 9 | #684 | #969 |
| North Carolina | 14 | #689 | #571 |
| South Carolina | 6 | #694 | #425 |
| Missouri | 7 | #732 | #608 |
| Louisiana | 5 | #786 | #785 |
| Colorado | 6 | #802 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 603 | #490 | — | — |
| 2024 | 678 | #464 | — | — |
| 2023 | 673 | #458 | — | — |
| 2022 | 519 | #576 | — | — |
| 2021 | 488 | #611 | — | — |
| 2020 | 551 | #546 | — | — |
| 2019 | 493 | #611 | — | — |
| 2018 | 393 | #721 | — | — |
| 2017 | 450 | #661 | — | — |
| 2016 | 401 | #711 | — | — |
| 2015 | 427 | #670 | — | — |
| 2014 | 428 | #666 | — | — |
| 2013 | 333 | #810 | — | — |
| 2012 | 378 | #734 | — | — |
| 2011 | 346 | #784 | — | — |
| 2010 | 328 | #819 | — | — |
| 2009 | 342 | #824 | — | — |
| 2008 | 381 | #770 | — | — |
| 2007 | 260 | #1,018 | — | — |
| 2006 | 270 | #971 | — | — |
| 2005 | 216 | #1,102 | — | — |
| 2004 | 205 | #1,114 | — | — |
| 2003 | 217 | #1,051 | — | — |
| 2002 | 142 | #1,363 | — | — |
| 2001 | 118 | #1,573 | — | — |
| 2000 | 129 | #1,426 | — | — |
| 1999 | 98 | #1,678 | — | — |
| 1998 | 99 | #1,637 | — | — |
| 1997 | 101 | #1,587 | — | — |
| 1996 | 89 | #1,704 | — | — |
| 1995 | 62 | #2,157 | — | — |
| 1994 | 67 | #2,064 | — | — |
| 1993 | 82 | #1,776 | — | — |
| 1992 | 47 | #2,613 | — | — |
| 1991 | 52 | #2,420 | — | — |
| 1990 | 50 | #2,438 | — | — |
| 1989 | 35 | #3,050 | — | — |
| 1988 | 48 | #2,295 | — | — |
| 1987 | 30 | #3,103 | — | — |
| 1986 | 31 | #2,977 | — | — |
| 1985 | 30 | #3,012 | — | — |
| 1984 | 27 | #3,147 | — | — |
| 1983 | 25 | #3,247 | — | — |
| 1982 | 28 | #3,098 | — | — |
| 1981 | 28 | #3,071 | — | — |
| 1980 | 14 | #4,984 | — | — |
| 1979 | 13 | #5,102 | — | — |
| 1978 | 14 | #4,690 | — | — |
| 1977 | 11 | #5,544 | — | — |
| 1976 | 13 | #4,626 | — | — |
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).