Ameerah

#2,438 for girls in 2025, 73 births

Peak · girls
2018 · 120 births
Debut · girls
16 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
2,645
since 1976

Ameerah over time

girls

Rank among girls' names. Ameerah has never cracked the top 1,000 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201977peak #1,717, 2018girls
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

Show data table
Yeargirls
rankbirths
2025#2,43873
2024#1,955101
2023#1,98499
2022#1,731120
2021#1,750117
2020#1,743115
2019#1,98697
2018#1,717120
2017#1,943103
2016#1,972101
2015#2,27882
2014#2,15488
2013#1,754117
2012#1,904105
2011#2,29881
2010#2,90659
2009#2,53174
2008#2,29585
2007#2,34881
2006#2,12791
2005#2,27879
2004#2,55665
2003#2,84054
2002#3,28342
2001#3,94032
2000#3,27141
1999#3,44336
1998#4,63623
1997#4,12526
1996#4,05926
1995#5,22118
1994#6,31914
1993#5,67316
1992#6,65213
1991#10,2717
1990#6,46513
1989#5,54515
1988#7,6919
1987#8,7787
1986#6,15611
1985#5,34813
1984#4,73715
1983#3,43123
1982#4,34717
1981#5,57112
1980#3,21526
1979#3,23625
1978#3,38822
1977#3,61220
1976#3,96316
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First appearance
1976

The first year at least five girls were named Ameerah! It came in at #3,963, and was given to 16 baby girls.


Quietest stretch: 1987–1988, when fewer than 10 girls a year got the name.

Where Ameerah is popular in 1977

No state had 5 or more girls named Ameerah in 1977, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.

See more about Ameerah
Momentum · girls
Falling
  • 483 spots since 2024 (#1,955 → #2,438)
  • 695 spots since 2020 (#1,743 → #2,438)
  • 160 spots since 2015 (#2,278 → #2,438)
Rise & fade · girls
42 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1976
  • Peaked 2018 at #1,717 (120 births)
  • Not yet halved from its peak
Top of the charts · girls
Never in the top 1,000
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · girls
1 in 13,668
  • Highest: 1 in 13,668 girls born in 2022 were named Ameerah (0.01%)
  • Latest: 1 in 22,017 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
  • Its best rank, #1,717 in 2018, was only 1 in 14,176 (0.01%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · girls
The 2010s
  • 36.0% of all girls named Ameerah (953) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1970s83#3,236 (1979)#3,550
1980s148#3,215 (1980)#5,482
1990s192#3,443 (1999)#5,686
2000s644#2,127 (2006)#2,747
2010s953#1,717 (2018)#2,091
2020s625#1,731 (2022)#1,934

All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.

Ameerah in 1977

girls
#3,612
20 births · 1 in 76,657 girls

Top girls' names in 1977

  1. #1Jennifer58,964
  2. #2Melissa26,879
  3. #3Amy26,729
  4. #4Jessica24,846
  5. #5Heather23,773
  6. #6Angela20,998
  7. #7Michelle19,540
  8. #8Kimberly18,286
  9. #9Amanda18,278
  10. #10Kelly18,234
  11. #3,612Ameerah20
More about 1977

girls

1,533,146 girls got a published name in 1977; 1 in 76,657 of them was named Ameerah, which outranked 68.1% of the 11,329 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 16.7% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Ameerah
  1. #3,486Wende21
  2. #3,486Willette21
  3. #3,486Zipporah21
  4. #3,612Ameerah20
  5. #3,612Adena20
  6. #3,612Allena20
  7. #3,612Aracelis20
  8. #3,761Abbe19
  9. #3,761Alea19
  10. #3,761Alica19

Tied with 148 names at #3,612; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1976
Risers
  1. ↑ 1,746Shawnte#2,486 → #740
  2. ↑ 1,077Jacklyn#2,060 → #983
  3. ↑ 775Talia#1,482 → #707
  4. ↑ 605Haley#1,047 → #442
  5. ↑ 576Raven#1,154 → #578
Fallers
  1. ↓ 1,033Liberty#543 → #1,576
  2. ↓ 464Luciana#545 → #1,009
  3. ↓ 441Danyel#999 → #1,440
  4. ↓ 428Chaka#897 → #1,325
  5. ↓ 322Catina#861 → #1,183

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 1977 →