Ameer
#980 for boys in 2025, 233 births
- Peak · boys
- 2016 · 284 births
- Debut · boys
- 14 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 6,596since 1969
Ameer over time
Rank among boys' names. Ameer has never cracked the top 800 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | boys | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #980 | 233 |
| 2024 | #931 | 248 |
| 2023 | #952 | 237 |
| 2022 | #905 | 256 |
| 2021 | #829 | 287 |
| 2020 | #833 | 273 |
| 2019 | #882 | 249 |
| 2018 | #809 | 278 |
| 2017 | #811 | 279 |
| 2016 | #809 | 284 |
| 2015 | #836 | 269 |
| 2014 | #936 | 225 |
| 2013 | #911 | 228 |
| 2012 | #970 | 207 |
| 2011 | #1,008 | 192 |
| 2010 | #904 | 225 |
| 2009 | #1,103 | 167 |
| 2008 | #1,175 | 152 |
| 2007 | #1,152 | 154 |
| 2006 | #1,141 | 149 |
| 2005 | #1,216 | 130 |
| 2004 | #1,203 | 127 |
| 2003 | #1,197 | 123 |
| 2002 | #1,191 | 117 |
| 2001 | #1,178 | 116 |
| 2000 | #1,152 | 120 |
| 1999 | #1,215 | 104 |
| 1998 | #1,261 | 96 |
| 1997 | #1,345 | 83 |
| 1996 | #1,387 | 76 |
| 1995 | #1,467 | 66 |
| 1994 | #1,495 | 63 |
| 1993 | #1,472 | 63 |
| 1992 | #1,429 | 64 |
| 1991 | #1,589 | 53 |
| 1990 | #1,780 | 44 |
| 1989 | #1,678 | 46 |
| 1988 | #1,592 | 45 |
| 1987 | #2,169 | 27 |
| 1986 | #2,226 | 25 |
| 1985 | #1,724 | 35 |
| 1984 | #2,364 | 21 |
| 1983 | #1,470 | 42 |
| 1982 | #1,563 | 39 |
| 1981 | #2,038 | 26 |
| 1980 | #1,593 | 37 |
| 1979 | #1,991 | 26 |
| 1978 | #1,794 | 29 |
| 1977 | #1,607 | 34 |
| 1976 | #1,411 | 40 |
| 1975 | #2,902 | 13 |
| 1974 | #2,799 | 13 |
| 1973 | #4,054 | 7 |
| 1972 | #3,344 | 9 |
| 1971 | #2,558 | 14 |
| 1970 | #2,213 | 17 |
| 1969 | #2,308 | 14 |
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The first year at least five boys were named Ameer! It came in at #2,308, and was given to 14 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1972–1973, when fewer than 10 boys a year got the name.
Where Ameer is popular in 2017
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Michigan#283 · 1 in 1,365
- Illinois#462 · 1 in 2,580
- Ohio#487 · 1 in 2,918
- New York#535 · 1 in 3,364
- Alabama#576 · 1 in 3,267
Best ever in a state: #282 in Michigan, 2018.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Michigan | #283 | 34 | 1 in 1,365 |
| Illinois | #462 | 24 | 1 in 2,580 |
| Ohio | #487 | 20 | 1 in 2,918 |
| New York | #535 | 29 | 1 in 3,364 |
| Alabama | #576 | 7 | 1 in 3,267 |
| Missouri | #622 | 8 | 1 in 3,825 |
| Tennessee | #631 | 9 | 1 in 4,030 |
| Georgia | #680 | 12 | 1 in 4,474 |
| Massachusetts | #710 | 5 | 1 in 5,764 |
| Virginia | #793 | 7 | 1 in 5,822 |
| Pennsylvania | #808 | 9 | 1 in 6,468 |
| Indiana | #819 | 6 | 1 in 5,742 |
| Florida | #859 | 14 | 1 in 6,905 |
| New Jersey | #867 | 6 | 1 in 6,809 |
| North Carolina | #938 | 7 | 1 in 7,332 |
| California | #960 | 23 | 1 in 9,379 |
| Texas | #1,130 | 16 | 1 in 11,010 |
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See more about Ameer
- 49 spots since 2024 (#931 → #980)
- 147 spots since 2020 (#833 → #980)
- 144 spots since 2015 (#836 → #980)
- Biggest jump: 199 spots in 2010 (#1,103 → #904)
- Biggest drop: 104 spots in 2011 (#904 → #1,008)
- Debuted 1969
- Peaked 2016 at #809 (284 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 15 yrs · run 2012–2025
- Highest: 1 in 6,096 boys born in 2021 were named Ameer (0.02%)
- Latest: 1 in 7,331 boys born in 2025 (0.01%)
- Its best rank, #809 in 2016, was only 1 in 6,682 (0.01%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 36.9% of all boys named Ameer (2,436) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
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| 1960s | 14 | #2,308 (1969) | #2,308 |
| 1970s | 202 | #1,411 (1976) | #2,467 |
| 1980s | 343 | #1,470 (1983) | #1,842 |
| 1990s | 712 | #1,215 (1999) | #1,444 |
| 2000s | 1,355 | #1,103 (2009) | #1,171 |
| 2010s | 2,436 | #809 (2016) | #888 |
| 2020s | 1,534 | #829 (2021) | #905 |
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.
Ameer in 2017
Top boys' names in 2017
More about 2017
boys
1,850,956 boys got a published name in 2017; 1 in 6,634 of them was named Ameer, which outranked 94.3% of the 14,262 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.0% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).