Amir

Where Amir comes from

From Arabic أَمِير (ʔamīr, “commander, prince”). Doublet of amir, emir, admiral, and amira.
— Wiktionary's entry for Amir
  • Arabic
Along the way
  1. 1253
    Amir Khusrau born
    Indian poet, writer, singer and scholar
  2. 1954
    First appearance
    #3,827 among boys, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  3. 1984
    Amir born
    French-Israeli singer-songwriter
  4. 2024
    Peak, #95
    3,640 babies named Amir — more than any year before or since.
In the dictionary
  • A male given name from Arabic.
Namesakes
  • Amir Khusrau · Indian poet, writer, singer and scholar, 1253–1325
  • Amir · French-Israeli singer-songwriter, born 1984
  • Amir Abrashi · Albanian-Swiss association football player, born 1990
  • Amir Peretz · Israeli politician and former leader of the Israeli Labor Party, born 1952
  • Amir Pnueli · Israeli computer scientist (1941–2009) researching temporal logic, model checking, and concurrent systems, 1941–2009

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.