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.
Where Amir is popular in 1986
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- New Jersey#263 · 1 in 2,379
- Pennsylvania#303 · 1 in 3,861
- Maryland#325 · 1 in 3,537
- California#434 · 1 in 4,476
- New York#466 · 1 in 5,554
Best ever in a state: #13 in Louisiana, 2023.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| New Jersey | #263 | 20 | 1 in 2,379 |
| Pennsylvania | #303 | 20 | 1 in 3,861 |
| Maryland | #325 | 8 | 1 in 3,537 |
| California | #434 | 51 | 1 in 4,476 |
| New York | #466 | 22 | 1 in 5,554 |
| Michigan | #469 | 9 | 1 in 7,091 |
| Ohio | #514 | 8 | 1 in 9,436 |
| North Carolina | #587 | 5 | 1 in 8,177 |
| Georgia | #645 | 5 | 1 in 8,837 |
| Texas | #647 | 18 | 1 in 8,129 |
| Illinois | #778 | 6 | 1 in 13,303 |
| Florida | #889 | 5 | 1 in 15,284 |
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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 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 1986
Top boys' names in 1986
More about 1986
boys
1,841,515 boys got a published name in 1986; 1 in 8,811 of them was named Amir, which outranked 92.1% of the 7,830 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 22.2% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.