Meaning not yet researched.
Amiri: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 472 in 2025. Its best rank was #506 in 2023.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #506 in 2023; #604 in 2025. About 64% of babies named Amiri in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#604 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2023, at #506.
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Amiri: US boys and girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 472 boys in 2025. Peak: #506 in 2023 · most boys in one year: 596 (2023).
In 2025, 472 US boys were named Amiri, making it the 604th most common boys’ name of the year, down 72 places from #532 in 2024. That is 87 fewer than the 559 boys named Amiri in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #506, reached in 2023. That year also had the most boys given the name: 596. For comparison, it was #4,412 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
In 2025, 266 US girls were named Amiri, making it the 964th most common girls’ name of the year, down 86 places from #878 in 2024. That is 41 fewer than the 307 girls named Amiri in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #847, reached in 2023. That year also had the most girls given the name: 317. For comparison, it was #16,602 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Amiri in 37 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1971 with 14 babies. In all, 4,928 US babies have been given the name, 33% of them girls and 67% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 4,122 babies named Amiri.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 2,782 US boys were named Amiri; the busiest of those years was 2023, with 596. In 2025 that was about 1 in 3,619 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Amiri ranked highest in Nevada in 2025, at #215 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Amari (53,282 babies since 1880), Amarie (2,968 babies since 1880), Amaria (2,917 babies since 1880) and Amauri (2,885 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Amiree, Amiriah and Amirya 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: Amiree (178), Amiriah (96), Amirya (22), Amiriya (21), Amirea (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 Amiri 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 21 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nevada | 14 | #215 | — |
| Connecticut | 9 | #326 | — |
| Ohio | 32 | #350 | — |
| Wisconsin | 14 | #375 | — |
| North Carolina | 29 | #382 | — |
| Michigan | 20 | #422 | — |
| Alabama | 11 | #451 | — |
| Indiana | 15 | #452 | — |
| Oklahoma | 9 | #466 | — |
| Kansas | 7 | #468 | — |
| Louisiana | 9 | #488 | — |
| Massachusetts | 9 | #512 | — |
| Georgia | 20 | #519 | — |
| Tennessee | 14 | #521 | — |
| Mississippi | 5 | #525 | — |
| New Jersey | 14 | #526 | — |
| Illinois | 16 | #571 | — |
| Texas | 54 | #576 | — |
| South Carolina | 7 | #610 | — |
| Virginia | 11 | #631 | — |
| Florida | 26 | #633 | — |
| Arizona | 10 | #638 | — |
| Maryland | 6 | #709 | — |
| Missouri | 7 | #713 | — |
| Kentucky | 5 | #714 | — |
| California | 37 | #719 | — |
| Colorado | 6 | #760 | — |
| Pennsylvania | 10 | #794 | — |
| New York | 16 | #845 | — |
| Washington | 6 | #904 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 266 | #964 | 472 | #604 |
| 2024 | 307 | #878 | 559 | #532 |
| 2023 | 317 | #847 | 596 | #506 |
| 2022 | 316 | #881 | 567 | #523 |
| 2021 | 175 | #1,293 | 330 | #760 |
| 2020 | 77 | #2,304 | 140 | #1,295 |
| 2019 | 31 | #4,441 | 61 | #2,266 |
| 2018 | 6 | #13,921 | 16 | #5,563 |
| 2017 | — | — | 19 | #4,948 |
| 2016 | 12 | #8,925 | 22 | #4,479 |
| 2015 | 5 | #16,602 | 22 | #4,412 |
| 2014 | 7 | #13,180 | 15 | #5,744 |
| 2013 | 12 | #9,073 | 13 | #6,260 |
| 2012 | 6 | #15,097 | 10 | #7,587 |
| 2011 | — | — | 13 | #6,270 |
| 2010 | — | — | 13 | #6,369 |
| 2009 | — | — | 15 | #5,815 |
| 2008 | 7 | #13,952 | 22 | #4,401 |
| 2007 | 7 | #14,032 | 34 | #3,255 |
| 2006 | 6 | #15,274 | 22 | #4,228 |
| 2005 | 9 | #10,977 | 25 | #3,715 |
| 2004 | 9 | #10,757 | 43 | #2,531 |
| 2003 | 15 | #7,235 | 41 | #2,507 |
| 2002 | 8 | #11,183 | 41 | #2,429 |
| 2001 | — | — | 34 | #2,747 |
| 2000 | 6 | #13,265 | 24 | #3,428 |
| 1999 | — | — | 22 | #3,484 |
| 1998 | 6 | #12,538 | 23 | #3,298 |
| 1997 | 6 | #12,180 | 14 | #4,460 |
| 1996 | 6 | #11,898 | 15 | #4,191 |
| 1995 | — | — | 11 | #5,138 |
| 1994 | — | — | 10 | #5,470 |
| 1990 | — | — | 5 | #8,161 |
| 1989 | — | — | 5 | #7,956 |
| 1973 | — | — | 8 | #3,707 |
| 1972 | — | — | 10 | #3,158 |
| 1971 | — | — | 14 | #2,560 |
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).