Amira
#132 for girls in 2025, 2,168 births · Last seen for boys in 2024 at #12,349
Given to girls >99.9% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 2023 · 2,108 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 25,609since 1963
Amira over time
Rank among girls' names. Amira has never cracked the top 100 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #132 | 2,168 | — | |
| 2024 | #136 | 2,182 | #12,349 | 5 |
| 2023 | #131 | 2,108 | — | |
| 2022 | #209 | 1,396 | — | |
| 2021 | #219 | 1,353 | — | |
| 2020 | #283 | 1,129 | — | |
| 2019 | #283 | 1,167 | — | |
| 2018 | #315 | 1,043 | — | |
| 2017 | #317 | 1,024 | — | |
| 2016 | #373 | 874 | — | |
| 2015 | #380 | 859 | — | |
| 2014 | #418 | 767 | — | |
| 2013 | #459 | 664 | — | |
| 2012 | #503 | 610 | — | |
| 2011 | #500 | 587 | — | |
| 2010 | #495 | 604 | — | |
| 2009 | #478 | 645 | — | |
| 2008 | #437 | 729 | — | |
| 2007 | #521 | 603 | — | |
| 2006 | #571 | 513 | — | |
| 2005 | #593 | 480 | — | |
| 2004 | #651 | 419 | — | |
| 2003 | #699 | 374 | — | |
| 2002 | #759 | 318 | — | |
| 2001 | #818 | 286 | — | |
| 2000 | #835 | 268 | — | |
| 1999 | #945 | 221 | — | |
| 1998 | #916 | 229 | — | |
| 1997 | #1,040 | 183 | — | |
| 1996 | #1,133 | 160 | — | |
| 1995 | #1,169 | 147 | — | |
| 1994 | #1,160 | 153 | — | |
| 1993 | #1,180 | 147 | — | |
| 1992 | #1,431 | 113 | — | |
| 1991 | #1,375 | 117 | — | |
| 1990 | #1,605 | 93 | — | |
| 1989 | #1,479 | 98 | — | |
| 1988 | #1,636 | 79 | — | |
| 1987 | #2,098 | 52 | — | |
| 1986 | #1,838 | 61 | — | |
| 1985 | #1,833 | 61 | — | |
| 1984 | #1,922 | 54 | — | |
| 1983 | #2,022 | 50 | — | |
| 1982 | #2,220 | 45 | — | |
| 1981 | #2,119 | 48 | — | |
| 1980 | #2,154 | 47 | — | |
| 1979 | #2,304 | 41 | — | |
| 1978 | #2,431 | 36 | — | |
| 1977 | #3,002 | 26 | — | |
| 1976 | #2,728 | 28 | — | |
| 1975 | #2,881 | 25 | — | |
| 1974 | #2,757 | 26 | — | |
| 1973 | #2,753 | 25 | — | |
| 1972 | #2,747 | 25 | — | |
| 1971 | #4,311 | 13 | — | |
| 1970 | #4,492 | 12 | — | |
| 1969 | #6,617 | 6 | — | |
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| 1967 | #6,804 | 5 | — | |
| 1966 | #4,866 | 8 | — | |
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| 1963 | #6,592 | 5 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Amira! It came in at #6,592, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1963–1965, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Amira is popular in 1993
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- New Jersey#449 · 1 in 3,179
- Pennsylvania#647 · 1 in 5,518
- Michigan#680 · 1 in 5,541
- Washington#804 · 1 in 5,946
- New York#839 · 1 in 6,653
Best ever in a state: #46 in Minnesota, 2024.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Jersey | #449 | 14 | 1 in 3,179 |
| Pennsylvania | #647 | 12 | 1 in 5,518 |
| Michigan | #680 | 10 | 1 in 5,541 |
| Washington | #804 | 5 | 1 in 5,946 |
| New York | #839 | 17 | 1 in 6,653 |
| Ohio | #856 | 8 | 1 in 8,256 |
| Illinois | #960 | 9 | 1 in 8,355 |
| Texas | #1,368 | 10 | 1 in 13,702 |
| California | #1,626 | 14 | 1 in 17,826 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls 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 Amira
- 4 spots since 2024 (#136 → #132)
- 151 spots since 2020 (#283 → #132)
- 248 spots since 2015 (#380 → #132)
- Biggest jump: 124 spots in 1998 (#1,040 → #916)
- Biggest drop: 41 spots in 2009 (#437 → #478)
- Debuted 1963
- Peaked 2023 at #131 (2,108 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 28 yrs · run 1998–2025
- Highest: 1 in 741 girls born in 2025 were named Amira (0.13%)
- Its best rank, #131 in 2023, was only 1 in 761 (0.13%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 40.4% of all girls named Amira (10,336) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 24 | #4,866 (1966) | #6,220 |
| 1970s | 257 | #2,304 (1979) | #3,041 |
| 1980s | 595 | #1,479 (1989) | #1,932 |
| 1990s | 1,563 | #916 (1998) | #1,195 |
| 2000s | 4,635 | #437 (2008) | #636 |
| 2010s | 8,199 | #283 (2019) | #404 |
| 2020s | 10,336 | #131 (2023) | #185 |
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.
Amira in 1993
Top girls' names in 1993
More about 1993
girls
1,809,072 girls got a published name in 1993; 1 in 12,307 of them was named Amira, which outranked 92.5% of the 15,801 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 13.3% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,174Roberta149
- #1,178Shameka148
- #1,178Shanequa148
- #1,180Amira147
- #1,180Hazel147
- #1,180Keyana147
- #1,180Portia147
- #1,185Ashlea146
- #1,185Camilla146
- #1,185Jacey146
Tied with 4 names at #1,180; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.