Ahmir
Ahmir was given to 163 boys in 2025, #1,231 among boys’ names; 3,819 Americans have been recorded with it since 1991 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 3,780 Americans named Ahmir and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 9 years old and half are between 5 and 15.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Ahmir by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Ahmir mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Ahmir is “a male given name from Arabic.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Ahmir?
#1,231 among boys’ names, 2025
Ahmir fell from #1,049 in 2015 to #1,231 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 98.6 to 95.4 per million.
276 babies in 2022, the peak
Ahmir peaked in 2022, when 276 boys were given it, #873 among boys’ names. The 163 births of 2025 are 59% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 163 | #1,231 | 0.10 |
| 2024 | 216 | #1,031 | 0.13 |
| 2023 | 237 | #952 | 0.14 |
| 2022 | 276 | #873 | 0.16 |
| 2021 | 230 | #968 | 0.13 |
| 2020 | 235 | #935 | 0.14 |
| 2019 | 213 | #991 | 0.12 |
| 2018 | 214 | #970 | 0.12 |
| 2017 | 195 | #1,030 | 0.11 |
| 2016 | 220 | #946 | 0.12 |
Every recorded year (35)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 189 | #1,049 | 0.10 |
| 2014 | 138 | #1,286 | 0.07 |
| 2013 | 145 | #1,233 | 0.08 |
| 2012 | 100 | #1,575 | 0.05 |
| 2011 | 102 | #1,544 | 0.05 |
| 2010 | 115 | #1,438 | 0.06 |
| 2009 | 108 | #1,528 | 0.05 |
| 2008 | 71 | #1,981 | 0.03 |
| 2007 | 101 | #1,552 | 0.05 |
| 2006 | 69 | #1,944 | 0.03 |
| 2005 | 59 | #2,077 | 0.03 |
| 2004 | 48 | #2,341 | 0.02 |
| 2003 | 52 | #2,124 | 0.03 |
| 2002 | 58 | #1,912 | 0.03 |
| 2001 | 52 | #2,024 | 0.03 |
| 2000 | 54 | #1,921 | 0.03 |
| 1999 | 38 | #2,345 | 0.02 |
| 1998 | 31 | #2,648 | 0.02 |
| 1997 | 18 | #3,733 | 0.01 |
| 1996 | 21 | #3,290 | 0.01 |
| 1995 | 12 | #4,789 | 0.01 |
| 1994 | 13 | #4,532 | 0.01 |
| 1993 | 5 | #8,715 | under 0.01 |
| 1992 | 6 | #7,439 | under 0.01 |
| 1991 | 10 | #5,095 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Ahmir a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Ahmir has been given almost only to boys: 5 girls in 35 years of records.
Girls and boys named Ahmir: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Ahmir, and how old are they?
3,780 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 3,819 Americans ever recorded as Ahmir. The median Ahmir alive today is 9 years old; half are between 5 and 15.
The 2020 Census counted 1,797 people named Ahmir (22 women and girls, 1,775 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,499 born in the U.S. The Census count is 28% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 65 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,070 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 2,650 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Ahmir born?
The states with the most babies named Ahmir are Florida, Texas and Louisiana, with 37% of its births recorded by state in 2025; Louisiana is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Florida | 17 | #846 | 1.4× |
| Texas | 16 | #1,252 | 0.5× |
| Louisiana | 10 | #451 | 1.8× |
| Pennsylvania | 9 | #847 | 2.1× |
| Georgia | 9 | #920 | 2.0× |
| California | 9 | #1,691 | 0.4× |
| Virginia | 9 | #731 | 1.3× |
| Maryland | 9 | #518 | 1.6× |
| North Carolina | 8 | #940 | 1.7× |
| New Jersey | 8 | #769 | 1.7× |
Where Ahmir is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Ahmir is most over-represented in Pennsylvania: since 1991 it was given 2.1 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Ahmir with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 74,459 babies since 1880, Ahmir is the third most given (5.1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 163 of their 3,934 babies (4.1%), the second most given that year.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Ahmir
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Ahmir and names like it
- Compare Ahmir and AmirBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sAhmir peaked in 2022.
- Florida’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Ahmir since 1910.
- Arabic namesWiktionary’s origin for Ahmir: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2022The year the most babies were named Ahmir.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Ahmir alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with AMost given first.