Emir
Last seen for girls in 2023 at #15,194 · #551 for boys in 2025, 546 births
Given to boys 99.9% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2025 · 546 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 5,615since 1970
Emir over time
Rank among boys' names. Emir has never cracked the top 500 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 | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | — | #551 | 546 | |
| 2024 | — | #558 | 532 | |
| 2023 | #15,194 | 5 | #583 | 492 |
| 2022 | — | #623 | 449 | |
| 2021 | — | #694 | 383 | |
| 2020 | — | #650 | 411 | |
| 2019 | — | #922 | 237 | |
| 2018 | — | #1,029 | 198 | |
| 2017 | — | #1,010 | 200 | |
| 2016 | — | #1,467 | 117 | |
| 2015 | — | #1,239 | 147 | |
| 2014 | — | #1,205 | 152 | |
| 2013 | — | #1,174 | 153 | |
| 2012 | — | #1,172 | 155 | |
| 2011 | — | #1,296 | 132 | |
| 2010 | — | #1,543 | 104 | |
| 2009 | — | #1,390 | 122 | |
| 2008 | — | #1,380 | 123 | |
| 2007 | — | #1,038 | 181 | |
| 2006 | — | #1,379 | 116 | |
| 2005 | — | #1,635 | 83 | |
| 2004 | — | #1,880 | 65 | |
| 2003 | — | #2,077 | 54 | |
| 2002 | — | #2,046 | 53 | |
| 2001 | — | #2,618 | 36 | |
| 2000 | — | #2,175 | 46 | |
| 1999 | — | #2,722 | 31 | |
| 1998 | — | #3,092 | 25 | |
| 1997 | — | #2,546 | 31 | |
| 1996 | — | #3,293 | 21 | |
| 1995 | — | #3,432 | 19 | |
| 1994 | — | #3,911 | 16 | |
| 1993 | — | #3,246 | 20 | |
| 1992 | — | #3,604 | 17 | |
| 1991 | — | #3,813 | 15 | |
| 1990 | — | #5,382 | 9 | |
| 1989 | — | #6,229 | 7 | |
| 1988 | — | #5,751 | 7 | |
| 1987 | — | #4,239 | 10 | |
| 1986 | — | #3,653 | 12 | |
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| 1984 | — | #3,925 | 10 | |
| 1983 | — | #6,238 | 5 | |
| 1982 | — | #5,619 | 6 | |
| 1981 | — | #5,468 | 6 | |
| 1980 | — | #4,940 | 7 | |
| 1979 | — | #4,842 | 7 | |
| 1978 | — | #4,554 | 7 | |
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| 1976 | — | #3,264 | 11 | |
| 1975 | — | #4,797 | 6 | |
| 1974 | — | #3,837 | 8 | |
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| 1972 | — | #4,986 | 5 | |
| 1971 | — | #4,907 | 5 | |
| 1970 | — | #4,724 | 5 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Emir! It came in at #4,724, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1970–1973, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Emir is popular in 2015
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Maryland#636 · 1 in 3,973
- Colorado#783 · 1 in 5,536
- New York#828 · 1 in 6,428
- Illinois#834 · 1 in 6,639
- Florida#837 · 1 in 6,557
Best ever in a state: #296 in Connecticut, 2025.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Maryland | #636 | 7 | 1 in 3,973 |
| Colorado | #783 | 5 | 1 in 5,536 |
| New York | #828 | 16 | 1 in 6,428 |
| Illinois | #834 | 10 | 1 in 6,639 |
| Florida | #837 | 15 | 1 in 6,557 |
| Georgia | #909 | 8 | 1 in 6,868 |
| Virginia | #990 | 5 | 1 in 8,484 |
| Michigan | #1,077 | 5 | 1 in 9,553 |
| Pennsylvania | #1,156 | 5 | 1 in 11,965 |
| Texas | #1,197 | 15 | 1 in 12,539 |
| California | #1,211 | 16 | 1 in 14,144 |
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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 Emir
- 7 spots since 2024 (#558 → #551)
- 99 spots since 2020 (#650 → #551)
- 688 spots since 2015 (#1,239 → #551)
- Biggest jump: 272 spots in 2020 (#922 → #650)
- Biggest drop: 44 spots in 2021 (#650 → #694)
- Debuted 1970
- Peaked 2025 at #551 (546 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 7 yrs · run 2019–2025
- Highest: 1 in 3,128 boys born in 2025 were named Emir (0.03%)
- 50.1% of all boys named Emir (2,813) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 54 | #3,264 (1976) | #4,489 |
| 1980s | 70 | #3,653 (1986) | #5,118 |
| 1990s | 204 | #2,546 (1997) | #3,504 |
| 2000s | 879 | #1,038 (2007) | #1,762 |
| 2010s | 1,595 | #922 (2019) | #1,206 |
| 2020s | 2,813 | #551 (2025) | #610 |
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.
Emir in 2015
Top boys' names in 2015
More about 2015
boys
1,916,743 boys got a published name in 2015; 1 in 13,039 of them was named Emir, which outranked 91.2% of the 14,059 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.3% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,231Josias148
- #1,231Norman148
- #1,231Zyon148
- #1,239Emir147
- #1,239Alton147
- #1,239Clifford147
- #1,239Kallen147
- #1,245Archie146
- #1,245Viktor146
- #1,247Armaan145
Tied with 5 names at #1,239; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.