Meaning not yet researched.
Emir: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 546 in 2025. Its best rank was #551 in 2025.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Its highest rank in 146 years of records is this year’s. Every baby recorded as Emir in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#551 for US boys in 2025, its highest rank in 146 years of records.
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Emir: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 546 boys in 2025. Peak: #551 in 2025 · most boys in one year: 546 (2025).
In 2025, 546 US boys were named Emir, making it the 551st most common boys’ name of the year, up 7 places from #558 in 2024. That is 14 more than the 532 boys named Emir in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #551, reached in this year, 2025. That year also had the most boys given the name: 546. For comparison, it was #1,241 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Emir in 53 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1970 with 5 babies. In all, 5,620 US babies have been given the name, 0.1% of them girls and 99.9% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 2,818 babies named Emir.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 3,565 US boys were named Emir; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 546. In 2025 that was about 1 in 3,128 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Emir ranked highest in Connecticut in 2025, at #303 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) and Emmer (2,166 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Imer, Imir and Emyr 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: Imer (276), Imir (208), Emyr (127), Emer (102), Ymir (79), Imar (49), Emar (33), Emere (20), Emare (13), Emeir (10), Imeir (6), Emmir (6), 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 Emir 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 23 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Connecticut | 10 | #303 | — |
| Maryland | 16 | #333 | #659 |
| New Jersey | 23 | #360 | — |
| Illinois | 29 | #367 | #857 |
| New York | 48 | #369 | #837 |
| Georgia | 30 | #389 | #936 |
| California | 69 | #463 | #1,224 |
| Texas | 71 | #469 | #1,213 |
| Arizona | 15 | #471 | — |
| Tennessee | 16 | #487 | — |
| Florida | 37 | #493 | #849 |
| Louisiana | 9 | #501 | — |
| South Carolina | 9 | #517 | — |
| Massachusetts | 9 | #524 | — |
| Virginia | 14 | #533 | #1,035 |
| Nevada | 5 | #536 | — |
| Alabama | 9 | #540 | — |
| North Carolina | 18 | #547 | — |
| Mississippi | 5 | #553 | — |
| Arkansas | 5 | #582 | — |
| Missouri | 9 | #605 | — |
| Washington | 11 | #610 | — |
| Indiana | 10 | #633 | — |
| Wisconsin | 7 | #643 | — |
| Minnesota | 7 | #668 | — |
| Ohio | 9 | #885 | — |
| Pennsylvania | 8 | #941 | #1,218 |
| Michigan | 6 | #1,025 | #1,126 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 546 | #551 |
| 2024 | — | — | 532 | #558 |
| 2023 | 5 | #15,903 | 492 | #583 |
| 2022 | — | — | 449 | #623 |
| 2021 | — | — | 383 | #695 |
| 2020 | — | — | 411 | #650 |
| 2019 | — | — | 237 | #923 |
| 2018 | — | — | 198 | #1,030 |
| 2017 | — | — | 200 | #1,011 |
| 2016 | — | — | 117 | #1,473 |
| 2015 | — | — | 147 | #1,241 |
| 2014 | — | — | 152 | #1,210 |
| 2013 | — | — | 153 | #1,176 |
| 2012 | — | — | 155 | #1,176 |
| 2011 | — | — | 132 | #1,297 |
| 2010 | — | — | 104 | #1,545 |
| 2009 | — | — | 122 | #1,396 |
| 2008 | — | — | 123 | #1,381 |
| 2007 | — | — | 181 | #1,042 |
| 2006 | — | — | 116 | #1,382 |
| 2005 | — | — | 83 | #1,640 |
| 2004 | — | — | 65 | #1,892 |
| 2003 | — | — | 54 | #2,084 |
| 2002 | — | — | 53 | #2,052 |
| 2001 | — | — | 36 | #2,636 |
| 2000 | — | — | 46 | #2,180 |
| 1999 | — | — | 31 | #2,747 |
| 1998 | — | — | 25 | #3,121 |
| 1997 | — | — | 31 | #2,564 |
| 1996 | — | — | 21 | #3,324 |
| 1995 | — | — | 19 | #3,467 |
| 1994 | — | — | 16 | #3,976 |
| 1993 | — | — | 20 | #3,287 |
| 1992 | — | — | 17 | #3,654 |
| 1991 | — | — | 15 | #3,871 |
| 1990 | — | — | 9 | #5,510 |
| 1989 | — | — | 7 | #6,426 |
| 1988 | — | — | 7 | #5,965 |
| 1987 | — | — | 10 | #4,347 |
| 1986 | — | — | 12 | #3,708 |
| 1984 | — | — | 10 | #4,009 |
| 1983 | — | — | 5 | #6,555 |
| 1982 | — | — | 6 | #5,868 |
| 1981 | — | — | 6 | #5,718 |
| 1980 | — | — | 7 | #5,105 |
| 1979 | — | — | 7 | #5,004 |
| 1978 | — | — | 7 | #4,690 |
| 1976 | — | — | 11 | #3,338 |
| 1975 | — | — | 6 | #5,000 |
| 1974 | — | — | 8 | #3,944 |
| 1972 | — | — | 5 | #5,198 |
| 1971 | — | — | 5 | #5,147 |
| 1970 | — | — | 5 | #4,931 |
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).