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Amir vs Amiracle

American parents have registered 56,257 Amirs since 1880, against 1,922 Amiracles. Amir is still ahead, with 3,308 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Amir Amiracle

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 2007, when Amir had 1,022 and Amiracle had 66.

Side by side

  Amir Amiracle
Total US births 56,2571,922
Most in one year 3,647118
Babies in 2025 3,30887
Estimated living today 56,0001,900
Median age today 810
Peak year 20242019
Best rank 95th boys1,745th girls
Rank in 2025 105th2,139th
First recorded 19541989
Girls / boys 510 / 55,7471,922 / 0

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 Amiracles alive today are over 10; half the Amirs are over 8. That is 2 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

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