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Amira vs Amiracle

American parents have registered 25,614 Amiras since 1880, against 1,922 Amiracles. Amira is still ahead, with 2,168 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Amira against Amiracle, 1880 to 2025 0 600 1.2k 1.8k 2.4k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Amira 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

Amira has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1963 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2012, when Amira had 610 and Amiracle had 82.

Side by side

  Amira Amiracle
Total US births 25,6141,922
Most in one year 2,187118
Babies in 2025 2,16887
Estimated living today 25,0001,900
Median age today 810
Peak year 20242019
Best rank 136th girls1,745th girls
Rank in 2025 132nd2,139th
First recorded 19631989
Girls / boys 25,609 / 51,922 / 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 Amiras 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: Amira and Amiracle.