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Amillia vs Amir

American parents have registered 56,257 Amirs since 1880, against 795 Amillias. Amir is still ahead, with 3,308 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Amillia against Amir, 1880 to 2025 0 1k 2k 3k 4k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Amillia Amir

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Amir has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1954 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1990, when Amillia had 11 and Amir had 275.

Side by side

  Amillia Amir
Total US births 79556,257
Most in one year 533,647
Babies in 2025 273,308
Estimated living today 79056,000
Median age today 118
Peak year 20152024
Best rank 3,129th girls95th boys
Rank in 2025 4,878th105th
First recorded 19801954
Girls / boys 795 / 0510 / 55,747

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Amillias alive today are over 11; half the Amirs are over 8. That is 3 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Amillia Amir
England and Wales 354,162

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Amillia and Amir.