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
- Peak · boys
- 2012 · 46 births
- Debut · boys
- 6 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 835since 1990
Amire over time
Rank within each sex, plotted together. 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 | #14,942 | 5 | #3,583 | 31 |
| 2024 | #11,122 | 8 | #3,001 | 41 |
| 2023 | — | #3,629 | 31 | |
| 2022 | #15,306 | 5 | #3,100 | 39 |
| 2021 | — | #3,297 | 35 | |
| 2020 | #13,453 | 6 | #2,759 | 44 |
| 2019 | — | #3,636 | 30 | |
| 2018 | — | #3,993 | 26 | |
| 2017 | — | #3,071 | 38 | |
| 2016 | — | #3,596 | 30 | |
| 2015 | — | #3,231 | 35 | |
| 2014 | #14,558 | 6 | #2,885 | 40 |
| 2013 | #14,582 | 6 | #2,955 | 38 |
| 2012 | #11,257 | 9 | #2,632 | 46 |
| 2011 | — | #3,434 | 31 | |
| 2010 | #9,231 | 12 | #4,099 | 24 |
| 2009 | — | #3,274 | 34 | |
| 2008 | #12,579 | 8 | #3,103 | 37 |
| 2007 | #11,630 | 9 | #3,591 | 29 |
| 2006 | #12,420 | 8 | #3,888 | 25 |
| 2005 | #11,834 | 8 | #3,528 | 27 |
| 2004 | #12,761 | 7 | #3,158 | 31 |
| 2003 | #15,784 | 5 | #4,114 | 20 |
| 2002 | — | #5,395 | 13 | |
| 2001 | — | #9,243 | 6 | |
| 2000 | — | #4,204 | 18 | |
| 1999 | — | #6,530 | 9 | |
| 1998 | #14,122 | 5 | #5,159 | 12 |
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| 1996 | — | #5,982 | 9 | |
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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 2012
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
Hover or tap a state for its numbers.
- Illinois#960 · 1 in 8,315
- North Carolina#963 · 1 in 8,426
Best ever in a state: #695 in Pennsylvania, 2004.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Illinois | #960 | 8 | 1 in 8,315 |
| North Carolina | #963 | 6 | 1 in 8,426 |
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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
- 582 spots since 2024 (#3,001 → #3,583)
- 824 spots since 2020 (#2,759 → #3,583)
- 352 spots since 2015 (#3,231 → #3,583)
- Debuted 1990
- Peaked 2012 at #2,632 (46 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- 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
- 40.5% of all boys named Amire (338) were born in this decade
- The majority has never changed
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 36 | #5,159 (1998) | #6,212 |
| 2000s | 240 | #3,103 (2008) | #4,350 |
| 2010s | 338 | #2,632 (2012) | #3,353 |
| 2020s | 221 | #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 2012
Top girls' names in 2012
Top boys' names in 2012
More about 2012
girls
1,761,053 girls got a published name in 2012; 1 in 195,673 of them was named Amire, which outranked 42.4% of the 19,534 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.8% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #10,429Zyniah10
- #10,429Zyona10
- #10,429Zyrianna10
- #11,257Amire9
- #11,257Aalani9
- #11,257Aaliyan9
- #11,257Aaniya9
- #12,199Aaisha8
- #12,199Aamna8
- #12,199Aamori8
Tied with 941 names at #11,257; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,896,946 boys got a published name in 2012; 1 in 41,238 of them was named Amire, which outranked 81.5% of the 14,250 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.9% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #2,594Williams47
- #2,594Wynn47
- #2,594Zarek47
- #2,632Amire46
- #2,632Adalberto46
- #2,632Andon46
- #2,632Aneesh46
- #2,678Amadou45
- #2,678Ashten45
- #2,678Atharva45
Tied with 45 names at #2,632; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.