Ameer
Ameer was given to 233 boys in 2025, #980 among boys’ names; 6,596 Americans have been recorded with it since 1969 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 6,480 Americans named Ameer and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 13 years old and half are between 7 and 23.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Ameer by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Ameer mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Ameer is “a male given name from Arabic.”
Variant spelling of Amir.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Ameer?
#980 among boys’ names, 2025
Ameer fell from #836 in 2015 to #980 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born held at 0.14 per 1,000.
287 babies in 2021, the peak
Ameer peaked in 2021, when 287 boys were given it, #829 among boys’ names. The 233 births of 2025 are 81% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 233 | #980 | 0.14 |
| 2024 | 248 | #931 | 0.14 |
| 2023 | 237 | #953 | 0.14 |
| 2022 | 256 | #905 | 0.15 |
| 2021 | 287 | #829 | 0.16 |
| 2020 | 273 | #833 | 0.16 |
| 2019 | 249 | #882 | 0.14 |
| 2018 | 278 | #809 | 0.15 |
| 2017 | 279 | #812 | 0.15 |
| 2016 | 284 | #809 | 0.15 |
Every recorded year (57)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 269 | #836 | 0.14 |
| 2014 | 225 | #936 | 0.12 |
| 2013 | 228 | #911 | 0.12 |
| 2012 | 207 | #971 | 0.11 |
| 2011 | 192 | #1,008 | 0.10 |
| 2010 | 225 | #906 | 0.12 |
| 2009 | 167 | #1,104 | 0.08 |
| 2008 | 152 | #1,175 | 0.07 |
| 2007 | 154 | #1,153 | 0.07 |
| 2006 | 149 | #1,141 | 0.07 |
| 2005 | 130 | #1,216 | 0.07 |
| 2004 | 127 | #1,201 | 0.06 |
| 2003 | 123 | #1,196 | 0.06 |
| 2002 | 117 | #1,190 | 0.06 |
| 2001 | 116 | #1,176 | 0.06 |
| 2000 | 120 | #1,150 | 0.06 |
| 1999 | 104 | #1,214 | 0.05 |
| 1998 | 96 | #1,258 | 0.05 |
| 1997 | 83 | #1,342 | 0.04 |
| 1996 | 76 | #1,386 | 0.04 |
| 1995 | 66 | #1,462 | 0.03 |
| 1994 | 63 | #1,490 | 0.03 |
| 1993 | 63 | #1,468 | 0.03 |
| 1992 | 64 | #1,425 | 0.03 |
| 1991 | 53 | #1,583 | 0.03 |
| 1990 | 44 | #1,775 | 0.02 |
| 1989 | 46 | #1,675 | 0.02 |
| 1988 | 45 | #1,587 | 0.02 |
| 1987 | 27 | #2,165 | 0.01 |
| 1986 | 25 | #2,225 | 0.01 |
| 1985 | 35 | #1,723 | 0.02 |
| 1984 | 21 | #2,365 | 0.01 |
| 1983 | 42 | #1,471 | 0.02 |
| 1982 | 39 | #1,566 | 0.02 |
| 1981 | 26 | #2,038 | 0.01 |
| 1980 | 37 | #1,593 | 0.02 |
| 1979 | 26 | #1,992 | 0.02 |
| 1978 | 29 | #1,795 | 0.02 |
| 1977 | 34 | #1,607 | 0.02 |
| 1976 | 40 | #1,411 | 0.03 |
| 1975 | 13 | #2,906 | 0.01 |
| 1974 | 13 | #2,804 | 0.01 |
| 1973 | 7 | #4,069 | under 0.01 |
| 1972 | 9 | #3,352 | 0.01 |
| 1971 | 14 | #2,558 | 0.01 |
| 1970 | 17 | #2,213 | 0.01 |
| 1969 | 14 | #2,310 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Ameer a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Ameer has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 57 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Ameer: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Ameer, and how old are they?
6,480 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 6,596 Americans ever recorded as Ameer. The median Ameer alive today is 13 years old; half are between 7 and 23.
The 2020 Census counted 4,960 people named Ameer (59 women and girls, 4,901 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 5,051 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 229 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 701 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 2,230 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 3,320 |
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 Ameer born?
The states with the most babies named Ameer are New York, California and Michigan, with 41% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 30 | #528 | 1.8× |
| California | 25 | #908 | 0.8× |
| Michigan | 23 | #375 | 2.5× |
| Texas | 20 | #1,097 | 0.5× |
| Illinois | 13 | #681 | 2.1× |
| Pennsylvania | 13 | #663 | 1.0× |
| Florida | 11 | #1,128 | 0.8× |
| Virginia | 11 | #630 | 0.9× |
| New Jersey | 7 | #831 | 2.0× |
| Ohio | 7 | #1,019 | 1.2× |
Where Ameer is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Ameer is most over-represented in Michigan: since 1969 it was given 2.5 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 Ameer 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 75,201 babies since 1880, Ameer is the second most given (8.8% of them). In 2025 it was given to 233 of their 3,950 babies (5.9%), again the second most given.
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 Ameer
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 Ameer and names like it
- Compare Ameer and AmirBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sAmeer peaked in 2021.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Ameer since 1910.
- Arabic namesWiktionary’s origin for Ameer: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2021The year the most babies were named Ameer.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Ameer alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with AMost given first.