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Amr vs Amri

American parents have registered 976 Amrs since 1880, against 513 Amris. But in 2025 it was Amri that was commoner, 26 babies to 20.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Amr against Amri, 1880 to 2025 0 15 30 45 60 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Amr Amri

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

Of the 46 years in which either name was published, Amr for 38 years and Amri for 8 years. The lead changed hands 5 times.

Side by side

  Amr Amri
Total US births 976513
Most in one year 5433
Babies in 2025 2026
Estimated living today 960510
Median age today 1810
Peak year 20072012
Best rank 2,372nd boys5,398th girls
Rank in 2025 4,857th6,838th
First recorded 19741990
Girls / boys 0 / 976464 / 49

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 Amrs alive today are over 18; half the Amris are over 10. That is 8 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.

Both names abroad

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

Country Amr Amri
England and Wales 2063
France 12045

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: Amr and Amri.