Amire

#14,942 for girls in 2025, 5 births · #3,583 for boys in 2025, 31 births
Given to boys 88.6% of the time

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Peak · boys
#2,632
2012 · 46 births
Debut · boys
1990
6 births
In top 100 · boys
never
of 146 years
Total births · boys
835
since 1990

Amire over time

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Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020202009peak #9,231, 2010peak #2,632, 2012girlsboys
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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2025#14,9425#3,58331
2024#11,1228#3,00141
2023—#3,62931
2022#15,3065#3,10039
2021—#3,29735
2020#13,4536#2,75944
2019—#3,63630
2018—#3,99326
2017—#3,07138
2016—#3,59630
2015—#3,23135
2014#14,5586#2,88540
2013#14,5826#2,95538
2012#11,2579#2,63246
2011—#3,43431
2010#9,23112#4,09924
2009—#3,27434
2008#12,5798#3,10337
2007#11,6309#3,59129
2006#12,4208#3,88825
2005#11,8348#3,52827
2004#12,7617#3,15831
2003#15,7845#4,11420
2002—#5,39513
2001—#9,2436
2000—#4,20418
1999—#6,5309
1998#14,1225#5,15912
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First appearance
1990

The first year at least five boys were named Amire! It came in at #7,178, and was given to 6 baby boys.

Quietest stretch: 1991–1995, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.

Where Amire is popular in 2009

  • Rank in state
  • Top 10
  • 11–50
  • 51–100
  • 101–500
  • 501+
  • Not published
Alaska: fewer than 5 boys named Amire, so not publishedAKMaine: fewer than 5 boys named Amire, so not publishedMEVermont: fewer than 5 boys named Amire, so not publishedVTNew Hampshire: fewer than 5 boys named Amire, so not publishedNHWashington: fewer than 5 boys named Amire, so not publishedWAIdaho: fewer than 5 boys named Amire, so not publishedIDMontana: fewer than 5 boys named Amire, so not publishedMTNorth Dakota: fewer than 5 boys named Amire, so not publishedNDMinnesota: fewer than 5 boys named Amire, so not publishedMNIllinois: fewer than 5 boys named Amire, so not publishedILWisconsin: fewer than 5 boys named Amire, so not publishedWIMichigan: #763 for boys · 8 births · 1 in 6,169 boysMINew York: #1,809 for boys · 5 births · 1 in 21,542 boysNYMassachusetts: fewer than 5 boys named Amire, so not publishedMARhode Island: fewer than 5 boys named Amire, so not publishedRIOregon: fewer than 5 boys named Amire, so not publishedORNevada: fewer than 5 boys named Amire, so not publishedNVWyoming: fewer than 5 boys named Amire, so not publishedWYSouth Dakota: fewer than 5 boys named Amire, so not publishedSDIowa: fewer than 5 boys named Amire, so not publishedIAIndiana: fewer than 5 boys named Amire, so not publishedINOhio: fewer than 5 boys named Amire, so not publishedOHPennsylvania: fewer than 5 boys named Amire, so not publishedPANew Jersey: fewer than 5 boys named Amire, so not publishedNJConnecticut: fewer than 5 boys named Amire, so not publishedCTCalifornia: fewer than 5 boys named Amire, so not publishedCAUtah: fewer than 5 boys named Amire, so not publishedUTColorado: fewer than 5 boys named Amire, so not publishedCONebraska: fewer than 5 boys named Amire, so not publishedNEMissouri: fewer than 5 boys named Amire, so not publishedMOKentucky: fewer than 5 boys named Amire, so not publishedKYWest Virginia: fewer than 5 boys named Amire, so not publishedWVVirginia: fewer than 5 boys named Amire, so not publishedVAMaryland: fewer than 5 boys named Amire, so not publishedMDDelaware: fewer than 5 boys named Amire, so not publishedDEArizona: fewer than 5 boys named Amire, so not publishedAZNew Mexico: fewer than 5 boys named Amire, so not publishedNMKansas: fewer than 5 boys named Amire, so not publishedKSArkansas: fewer than 5 boys named Amire, so not publishedARTennessee: fewer than 5 boys named Amire, so not publishedTNNorth Carolina: fewer than 5 boys named Amire, so not publishedNCSouth Carolina: fewer than 5 boys named Amire, so not publishedSCDistrict of Columbia: fewer than 5 boys named Amire, so not publishedDCOklahoma: fewer than 5 boys named Amire, so not publishedOKLouisiana: fewer than 5 boys named Amire, so not publishedLAMississippi: fewer than 5 boys named Amire, so not publishedMSAlabama: fewer than 5 boys named Amire, so not publishedALGeorgia: fewer than 5 boys named Amire, so not publishedGAHawaii: fewer than 5 boys named Amire, so not publishedHITexas: fewer than 5 boys named Amire, so not publishedTXFlorida: fewer than 5 boys named Amire, so not publishedFL

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Top states · boys
  1. Michigan#763 · 1 in 6,169
  2. New York#1,809 · 1 in 21,542

Best ever in a state: #695 in Pennsylvania, 2004.

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New York#1,80951 in 21,542
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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 Amire
Momentum · boys
Falling
  • 582 spots since 2024 (#3,001 → #3,583)
  • 824 spots since 2020 (#2,759 → #3,583)
  • 352 spots since 2015 (#3,231 → #3,583)
Rise & fade · boys
22 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1990
  • Peaked 2012 at #2,632 (46 births)
  • Not yet halved from its peak
Top of the charts · boys
Never in the top 1,000
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · boys
1 in 39,229
  • Highest: 1 in 39,229 boys born in 2020 were named Amire (0.00%)
  • Latest: 1 in 55,099 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
  • Its best rank, #2,632 in 2012, was only 1 in 41,238 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · boys
The 2010s
  • 40.5% of all boys named Amire (338) were born in this decade
Girls or boys?
Never flipped
  • The majority has never changed
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Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1990s36#5,159 (1998)#6,212
2000s240#3,103 (2008)#4,350
2010s338#2,632 (2012)#3,353
2020s221#2,759 (2020)#3,228

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.

Amire in 2009

boys
#3,274
34 births · 1 in 58,340 boys

Top boys' names in 2009

  1. #1Jacob21,204
  2. #2Ethan19,858
  3. #3Michael18,964
  4. #4Alexander18,254
  5. #5William17,937
  6. #6Joshua17,671
  7. #7Daniel17,564
  8. #8Jayden17,316
  9. #9Noah17,262
  10. #10Christopher16,368
  11. #3,274Amire34
More about 2009

boys

1,983,573 boys got a published name in 2009; 1 in 58,340 of them was named Amire, which outranked 77.5% of the 14,540 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 9.2% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Amire
  1. #3,223Vinh35
  2. #3,223Yaniel35
  3. #3,223Zakery35
  4. #3,274Amire34
  5. #3,274Adain34
  6. #3,274Adel34
  7. #3,274Arjan34
  8. #3,332Aarnav33
  9. #3,332Adithya33
  10. #3,332Akil33

Tied with 57 names at #3,274; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 2008
Risers
  1. ↑ 951Knox#1,655 → #704
  2. ↑ 510Kellan#1,133 → #623
  3. ↑ 462Jaxen#1,329 → #867
  4. ↑ 422Bentley#936 → #514
  5. ↑ 354Archer#1,037 → #683
Fallers
  1. ↓ 493Yurem#995 → #1,488
  2. ↓ 222Cordell#786 → #1,008
  3. ↓ 212Shamar#926 → #1,138
  4. ↓ 201Trevin#797 → #998
  5. ↓ 198Glenn#865 → #1,063

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

See the top 100 for 2009 →