Amiri
#964 for girls in 2025, 266 births · #604 for boys in 2025, 472 births
Given to boys 67.1% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2023 · 596 births
- Debut · boys
- 14 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 3,306since 1971
Amiri over time
Rank within each sex, plotted together. 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 | #964 | 266 | #604 | 472 |
| 2024 | #878 | 307 | #532 | 559 |
| 2023 | #847 | 317 | #506 | 596 |
| 2022 | #880 | 316 | #523 | 567 |
| 2021 | #1,293 | 175 | #759 | 330 |
| 2020 | #2,302 | 77 | #1,295 | 140 |
| 2019 | #4,437 | 31 | #2,265 | 61 |
| 2018 | #13,793 | 6 | #5,540 | 16 |
| 2017 | — | #4,935 | 19 | |
| 2016 | #8,875 | 12 | #4,470 | 22 |
| 2015 | #16,419 | 5 | #4,407 | 22 |
| 2014 | #13,069 | 7 | #5,733 | 15 |
| 2013 | #9,036 | 12 | #6,241 | 13 |
| 2012 | #14,962 | 6 | #7,559 | 10 |
| 2011 | — | #6,256 | 13 | |
| 2010 | — | #6,359 | 13 | |
| 2009 | — | #5,800 | 15 | |
| 2008 | #13,832 | 7 | #4,395 | 22 |
| 2007 | #13,924 | 7 | #3,250 | 34 |
| 2006 | #15,152 | 6 | #4,223 | 22 |
| 2005 | #10,921 | 9 | #3,710 | 25 |
| 2004 | #10,690 | 9 | #2,531 | 43 |
| 2003 | #7,207 | 15 | #2,507 | 41 |
| 2002 | #11,108 | 8 | #2,428 | 41 |
| 2001 | — | #2,742 | 34 | |
| 2000 | #13,154 | 6 | #3,423 | 24 |
| 1999 | — | #3,480 | 22 | |
| 1998 | #12,426 | 6 | #3,296 | 23 |
| 1997 | #12,070 | 6 | #4,451 | 14 |
| 1996 | #11,807 | 6 | #4,185 | 15 |
| 1995 | — | #5,124 | 11 | |
| 1994 | — | #5,452 | 10 | |
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| 1990 | — | #8,117 | 5 | |
| 1989 | — | #7,905 | 5 | |
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| 1973 | — | #3,694 | 8 | |
| 1972 | — | #3,152 | 10 | |
| 1971 | — | #2,558 | 14 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Amiri! It came in at #2,558, and was given to 14 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1974–1993, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Amiri is popular in 2021
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
Hover or tap a state for its numbers.
- New Jersey#411 · 1 in 2,253
- Wisconsin#425 · 1 in 2,027
- Georgia#434 · 1 in 2,099
- Illinois#435 · 1 in 2,246
- Mississippi#465 · 1 in 1,998
Best ever in a state: #147 in Rhode Island, 2024.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Jersey | #411 | 18 | 1 in 2,253 |
| Wisconsin | #425 | 12 | 1 in 2,027 |
| Georgia | #434 | 24 | 1 in 2,099 |
| Illinois | #435 | 24 | 1 in 2,246 |
| Mississippi | #465 | 6 | 1 in 1,998 |
| New York | #505 | 31 | 1 in 2,875 |
| Ohio | #553 | 17 | 1 in 3,189 |
| Maryland | #572 | 8 | 1 in 3,119 |
| Louisiana | #581 | 8 | 1 in 2,717 |
| Missouri | #583 | 9 | 1 in 3,172 |
| North Carolina | #632 | 14 | 1 in 3,645 |
| Florida | #651 | 23 | 1 in 4,033 |
| Virginia | #665 | 10 | 1 in 3,911 |
| Arizona | #683 | 8 | 1 in 4,078 |
| Massachusetts | #738 | 5 | 1 in 5,703 |
| Michigan | #757 | 9 | 1 in 4,774 |
| Pennsylvania | #781 | 10 | 1 in 5,546 |
| Minnesota | #803 | 5 | 1 in 5,028 |
| Indiana | #844 | 6 | 1 in 5,460 |
| Texas | #853 | 28 | 1 in 6,112 |
| California | #1,060 | 20 | 1 in 9,469 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the boys born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Amiri
- 72 spots since 2024 (#532 → #604)
- 691 spots since 2020 (#1,295 → #604)
- 3,803 spots since 2015 (#4,407 → #604)
- Biggest jump: 536 spots in 2021 (#1,295 → #759)
- Biggest drop: 72 spots in 2025 (#532 → #604)
- Debuted 1971
- Peaked 2023 at #506 (596 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 5 yrs · run 2021–2025
- Highest: 1 in 2,870 boys born in 2023 were named Amiri (0.03%)
- Latest: 1 in 3,619 boys born in 2025 (0.03%)
- 80.6% of all boys named Amiri (2,664) were born in this decade
- The majority has never changed
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 32 | #2,558 (1971) | #3,135 |
| 1980s | 5 | #7,905 (1989) | #7,905 |
| 1990s | 100 | #3,296 (1998) | #4,872 |
| 2000s | 301 | #2,428 (2002) | #3,501 |
| 2010s | 204 | #2,265 (2019) | #5,377 |
| 2020s | 2,664 | #506 (2023) | #703 |
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.
Amiri in 2021
Top girls' names in 2021
Top boys' names in 2021
More about 2021
girls
1,640,861 girls got a published name in 2021; 1 in 9,376 of them was named Amiri, which outranked 92.7% of the 17,676 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.7% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,288Noel178
- #1,291Prisha176
- #1,291Selina176
- #1,293Amiri175
- #1,293Colbie175
- #1,293Emi175
- #1,293Emmarie175
- #1,301Karma174
- #1,301Lettie174
- #1,301Onyx174
Tied with 7 names at #1,293; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,749,482 boys got a published name in 2021; 1 in 5,301 of them was named Amiri, which outranked 94.6% of the 14,096 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.8% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).