Amir
#8,860 for girls in 2025, 11 births · #105 for boys in 2025, 3,297 births
Given to boys 99.1% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2024 · 3,640 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- 2 yrsof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 55,747since 1954
Amir over time
Rank among boys' names. Click any year to open it.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #8,860 | 11 | #105 | 3,297 |
| 2024 | #12,161 | 7 | #95 | 3,640 |
| 2023 | #6,922 | 16 | #99 | 3,631 |
| 2022 | #8,032 | 13 | #113 | 3,353 |
| 2021 | #7,250 | 15 | #123 | 3,026 |
| 2020 | #6,923 | 16 | #117 | 3,182 |
| 2019 | #10,473 | 9 | #131 | 2,971 |
| 2018 | #8,617 | 12 | #150 | 2,608 |
| 2017 | #5,821 | 21 | #150 | 2,619 |
| 2016 | #6,901 | 17 | #165 | 2,446 |
| 2015 | #8,008 | 14 | #187 | 2,221 |
| 2014 | #6,987 | 17 | #212 | 1,819 |
| 2013 | #5,644 | 23 | #216 | 1,726 |
| 2012 | #6,341 | 20 | #248 | 1,468 |
| 2011 | #7,436 | 16 | #250 | 1,385 |
| 2010 | #7,513 | 16 | #278 | 1,218 |
| 2009 | #8,888 | 13 | #279 | 1,215 |
| 2008 | #5,750 | 24 | #296 | 1,126 |
| 2007 | #10,129 | 11 | #317 | 1,011 |
| 2006 | #7,482 | 16 | #326 | 987 |
| 2005 | #8,883 | 12 | #339 | 872 |
| 2004 | #4,816 | 27 | #340 | 843 |
| 2003 | #6,576 | 17 | #340 | 819 |
| 2002 | #4,906 | 24 | #359 | 742 |
| 2001 | #6,956 | 15 | #391 | 651 |
| 2000 | #10,745 | 8 | #413 | 603 |
| 1999 | #5,039 | 21 | #400 | 610 |
| 1998 | #6,719 | 14 | #443 | 516 |
| 1997 | #6,483 | 14 | #502 | 413 |
| 1996 | #10,567 | 7 | #536 | 359 |
| 1995 | #9,553 | 8 | #551 | 340 |
| 1994 | #10,569 | 7 | #564 | 330 |
| 1993 | #9,559 | 8 | #634 | 265 |
| 1992 | #13,317 | 5 | #650 | 253 |
| 1991 | — | #642 | 254 | |
| 1990 | — | #606 | 275 | |
| 1989 | — | #615 | 259 | |
| 1988 | — | #644 | 215 | |
| 1987 | #11,325 | 5 | #646 | 199 |
| 1986 | — | #620 | 209 | |
| 1985 | — | #672 | 174 | |
| 1984 | #10,422 | 5 | #592 | 204 |
| 1983 | #9,015 | 6 | #664 | 166 |
| 1982 | — | #755 | 137 | |
| 1981 | — | #706 | 150 | |
| 1980 | — | #769 | 130 | |
| 1979 | — | #812 | 115 | |
| 1978 | — | #841 | 104 | |
| 1977 | — | #921 | 85 | |
| 1976 | — | #998 | 69 | |
| 1975 | — | #1,000 | 67 | |
| 1974 | — | #1,099 | 56 | |
| 1973 | — | #1,294 | 41 | |
| 1972 | — | #1,285 | 42 | |
| 1971 | — | #1,181 | 48 | |
| 1970 | — | #1,615 | 28 | |
| 1969 | — | #1,492 | 29 | |
| 1968 | — | #1,894 | 18 | |
| 1967 | — | #1,573 | 24 | |
| 1966 | — | #1,814 | 18 | |
| 1965 | — | #2,366 | 12 | |
| 1964 | — | #2,409 | 12 | |
| 1963 | — | #2,300 | 13 | |
| 1962 | — | #3,305 | 7 | |
| 1961 | — | #4,065 | 5 | |
| 1960 | — | #3,665 | 6 | |
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| 1955 | — | #3,505 | 6 | |
| 1954 | — | #3,827 | 5 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Amir! It came in at #3,827, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1956–1959, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.
See more about Amir
- 10 spots since 2024 (#95 → #105)
- 12 spots since 2020 (#117 → #105)
- 82 spots since 2015 (#187 → #105)
- Biggest jump: 99 spots in 1975 (#1,099 → #1,000)
- Biggest drop: 80 spots in 1985 (#592 → #672)
- Debuted 1954
- Peaked 2024 at #95 (3,640 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: 2 yrs · run 2023–2024
- Top 1,000: 51 yrs · run 1975–2025
- Highest: 1 in 471 boys born in 2023 were named Amir (0.21%)
- Latest: 1 in 518 boys born in 2025 (0.19%)
- Its best rank, #95 in 2024, was only 1 in 473 (0.21%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 36.7% of all boys named Amir (20,481) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1950s | 11 | #3,505 (1955) | #3,666 |
| 1960s | 144 | #1,492 (1969) | #2,488 |
| 1970s | 655 | #812 (1979) | #1,105 |
| 1980s | 1,843 | #592 (1984) | #668 |
| 1990s | 3,615 | #400 (1999) | #553 |
| 2000s | 8,869 | #279 (2009) | #340 |
| 2010s | 20,481 | #131 (2019) | #199 |
| 2020s | 20,129 | #95 (2024) | #109 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Amir in 2014
Top girls' names in 2014
Top boys' names in 2014
More about 2014
girls
1,786,355 girls got a published name in 2014; 1 in 105,080 of them was named Amir, which outranked 63.7% of the 19,232 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.5% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #6,713Zuzu18
- #6,713Zyan18
- #6,713Zyion18
- #6,987Amir17
- #6,987Aaliyha17
- #6,987Aalyah17
- #6,987Aarini17
- #7,302Aanvi16
- #7,302Abena16
- #7,302Abigaelle16
Tied with 314 names at #6,987; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
- ↑ 3,632Aranza#4,243 → #611
- ↑ 576Montserrat#1,148 → #572
- ↑ 573Monserrat#1,165 → #592
- ↑ 463Maisie#1,116 → #653
- ↑ 419Ariadne#1,220 → #801
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,920,871 boys got a published name in 2014; 1 in 1,056 of them was named Amir, which outranked 98.5% of the 14,081 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.5% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.