Emir
Emir is a boy's name that peaked in 2025, when it was the 551st most popular in the United States. In 2025 it ranked 551st. About 5,600 Emirs are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 5.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Emir boys named Emir
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 5,620
- Estimated living today
- 5,600
- Median age today
- 5
- Peak year
- 2025
- Best rank
- 551st
- Rank in 2025
- 551st
- First recorded
- 1970
- Girls / boys
- 5 / 5,615
How old the living Emirs are
born that year still alive today
Of the 5,620 babies given the name since 1970, about 5,600 are alive — 99 in every hundred. Roughly 4,600 of them are children and 0 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2020 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.
Notable Emirs
- Emir Kusturica (born 1954)Serbian and French film director, screenwriter, writer, actor and musician
- Emir Spahić (born 1980)Bosnian association football player
- Emir Bajrami (born 1988)Swedish footballer
- Emir Kujović (born 1988)Swedish footballer
- Emir Mutapčić (born 1960)Bosnian basketball player
- Emir Bekrić (born 1991)Serbian hurdler
- Emir Preldžić (born 1987)Turkish basketball player
- Emir Mkademi (born 1978)Tunisian association football player
People named Emir with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Emir is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Emir is most concentrated in Florida (2.5×), Nevada (2.0×), California (1.8×), Arizona (1.8×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2025
The most popular boys’ names the year Emir peaked:
Emir elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| France boys | Emir +3 spellings | 4,945 | 233rd |
| Belgium boys | Emir | 1,227 | 156th |
| England and Wales boys | Emir | 1,021 | 517th |
| Switzerland boys | Emir | 910 | 136th |
| Italy boys | Emir | 425 | — |
| Norway boys | Emir | 378 | 234th |
| Poland boys | Emir +1 spelling | 142 birth registrations | 325th |
| Ireland girls | Emir | 38 | 343rd |
| Scotland boys | Emir | 33 | 535th |
| Ireland boys | Emir | 32 | 472nd |
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.
Emir: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German boys | Switzerland | Emir | 720 | 0.058% | 113th |
| French boys | Switzerland | Emir | 178 | 0.041% | 153rd |
| Italian boys | Switzerland | Emir | 12 | 0.018% | 131st |
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, Emir is most concentrated in Solothurn, where 0.10% of children were given it – 51 of them.
Emir: rank by region
In 2025, Emir was given 5 times or more in 3 regions of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flanders | Emir | 161 | 36 |
| Wallonia | Emir | 206 | 14 |
| Brussels | Emir | 187 | 7 |
In 2023, Emir was among the 10 most common names in 1 region of Spain.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Melilla | Emir | 8 | 5 |
In 2025, Emir was given 2 times or more in 3 regions of Poland.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dolnośląskie | Emir | 243 | 2 |
| Mazowieckie | Emir | 312 | 2 |
| Wielkopolskie | Emir | 189 | 4 |
In 2025, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Emir appears in the lists for Province of Limburg (38th), Province of East Flanders (106th), Province of Liège (133rd), Brussels-Capital Region (187th), Province of Hainaut (215th), Province of Flemish Brabant (218th) and Province of Antwerp (341st).
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children, Spain 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.
Emir by city
| City | Years | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Berlin boys | 2017–2023 | 295 | 63rd |
One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.
Emir 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 | Emir | 201 | 249 |
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 Emir lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 269 men called Emir 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 | Emir | 21 | 0.480 | 298 |
| Ceuta | Emir | 6 | 0.142 | 575 |
| Huesca | Emir | 7 | 0.060 | 1,040 |
| Navarra | Emir | 11 | 0.032 | 1,645 |
| Málaga | Emir | 24 | 0.027 | 1,708 |
| Palmas, Las | Emir | 12 | 0.021 | 3,279 |
Listed in 14 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 38 it is either held by fewer than 5 people – the point below which the source withholds a name – or it fell past the 5,000 names the source will print for one province. Neither means nobody there is called it. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.
Related names
Emir 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.