Amira

Where Amira comes from

Borrowed from Arabic أَمِيرَة (ʔamīra, “princess”).
— Wiktionary's entry for Amira
  • Arabic
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1956
    Amira Hass born
    Israeli journalist
  2. 1963
    First appearance
    #6,592 among girls, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  3. 1971
    Amira Casar born
    French actress
  4. 2023
    Peak, #131
    2,108 babies named Amira — more than any year before or since.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from Arabic, masculine equivalent Amir
Namesakes
  • Amira Casar · French actress, born 1971
  • Amira Hass · Israeli journalist, born 1956
  • Amira Willighagen · Dutch-South African singer, born 2004
  • Amira Mohamed Ali · German politician, born 1980
  • Amira Yahyaoui · Tunisian activist, born 1984

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.