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Amira vs Amiriyon

American parents have registered 25,614 Amiras since 1880, against 41 Amiriyons. Amira is still ahead, with 2,168 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Amira Amiriyon

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 2022, when Amira had 1,396 and Amiriyon had 18.

Side by side

  Amira Amiriyon
Total US births 25,61441
Most in one year 2,18718
Babies in 2025 2,168under 5
Estimated living today 25,00040
Median age today 82
Peak year 20242022
Best rank 136th girls5,215th boys
Rank in 2025 132ndunranked
First recorded 19632022
Girls / boys 25,609 / 50 / 41

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 Amiras alive today are over 8; half the Amiriyons are over 2. That is 6 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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