Amir
Amir reached its high-water mark in 2024 at number 95, and has been recorded 56,257 times in all. In 2025 it ranked 105th. About 56,000 Amirs are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 8.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Amir boys named Amir
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 56,257
- Estimated living today
- 56,000
- Median age today
- 8
- Peak year
- 2024
- Best rank
- 95th
- Rank in 2025
- 105th
- First recorded
- 1954
- Girls / boys
- 510 / 55,747
How old the living Amirs are
born that year still alive today
Of the 56,257 babies given the name since 1954, about 56,000 are alive — 99 in every hundred. Roughly 43,000 of them are children and 12 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2017 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
Origin Arabic
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Amirs
- Amir Khusrau (1253–1325)Indian poet, writer, singer and scholar
- Amir Karić (born 1973)Slovenian association football player
- Amir (born 1984)French-Israeli singer-songwriter
- Amir-Abbas Hoveyda (1919–1979)Iranian politician
- Amir Abrashi (born 1990)Albanian-Swiss association football player
- Amir Peretz (born 1952)Israeli politician and former leader of the Israeli Labor Party
- Amir Khan (born 1986)British boxer
- Amir Rrahmani (born 1994)Kosovar footballer
People named Amir with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Amir is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Amir is most concentrated in Florida (2.3×), Nevada (2.3×), Maryland (2.2×), Georgia (2.2×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2024
The most popular boys’ names the year Amir peaked:
Amir elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| France boys | Amir +2 spellings | 20,555 | 38th |
| Italy boys | Amir | 5,626 | — |
| Spain boys | Amir | 4,883 | 46th |
| England and Wales boys | Amir | 4,162 | 195th |
| Belgium boys | Amir | 3,278 | 17th |
| Norway boys | Amir | 1,341 | 136th |
| Switzerland boys | Amir | 982 | 111th |
| Sweden boys | Amir | 602 | 86th |
| Poland boys | Amir | 380 birth registrations | 186th |
| Scotland boys | Amir | 203 | 333rd |
| Ireland boys | Amir | 166 | 252nd |
| Northern Ireland boys | Amir | 31 | 256th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Amir: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German boys | Switzerland | Amir | 669 | 0.054% | 136th |
| French boys | Switzerland | Amir | 286 | 0.066% | 79th |
| Italian boys | Switzerland | Amir | 27 | 0.041% | 91st |
Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.
By canton, Amir is most concentrated in Geneva, where 0.09% of children were given it – 91 of them.
Amir: rank by region
In 2025, Amir was given 5 times or more in 3 regions of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flanders | Amir | 36 | 109 |
| Wallonia | Amir | 65 | 46 |
| Brussels | Amir | 5 | 60 |
In 2024, Amir was among the 10 most common names in 1 region of Spain, and first in 1 of them. It has come first somewhere in 4 different years.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Melilla | Amir | 1 | 12 |
In 2023, Amir was among the 10 most common names in 1 region of Italy.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Valle d'Aosta/Vallée d'Aoste | Amir | 9 | 2 |
In 2025, Amir was given 2 times or more in 8 regions of Poland.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dolnośląskie | Amir | 188 | 4 |
| Kujawsko-Pomorskie | Amir | 141 | 3 |
| Lubelskie | Amir | 140 | 2 |
| Łódzkie | Amir | 183 | 2 |
| Mazowieckie | Amir | 144 | 13 |
| Pomorskie | Amir | 212 | 2 |
| Śląskie | Amir | 186 | 4 |
| Wielkopolskie | Amir | 151 | 7 |
In 2025, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Amir appears in the lists for Brussels-Capital Region (5th), Province of Antwerp (23rd), Province of East Flanders (28th), Province of Hainaut (42nd), Province of Limburg (43rd), Province of Liège (52nd), Province of West Flanders (67th) and Province of Flemish Brabant (86th).
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children, Spain after 10 names, Italy after 10 names, Poland below 2 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Amir by city
| City | Years | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Berlin boys | 2017–2023 | 485 | 47th |
One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.
Amir among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland boys | Amir +1 spelling | 570 | 689 |
| Finland girls | Amir | — | 23 |
A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Where Amir lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 7,777 men called Amir were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.
Men: the provinces where it is densest
| Province | Spelling | People | Per thousand | Place there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Melilla | Amir | 205 | 4.684 | 43 |
| Ceuta | Amir | 108 | 2.562 | 79 |
| Almería | Amir | 390 | 0.992 | 139 |
| Girona | Amir | 311 | 0.747 | 175 |
| Tarragona | Amir | 305 | 0.696 | 191 |
| Murcia | Amir | 540 | 0.679 | 169 |
Listed in 52 of Spain's 52 provinces. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.
Related names
Amir against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.