Ameerah
Ameerah was given to 73 girls in 2025, #2,440 among girls’ names; 2,645 Americans have been recorded with it since 1976 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,620 Americans named Ameerah and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 13 years old and half are between 7 and 21.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Ameerah by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Ameerah?
#2,440 among girls’ names, 2025
Ameerah fell from #2,278 in 2015 to #2,440 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 45.9 to 45.4 per million.
120 babies in 2018, the peak
Ameerah peaked in 2018, when 120 girls were given it, #1,718 among girls’ names. The 73 births of 2025 are 61% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 73 | #2,440 | 45.4 |
| 2024 | 101 | #1,955 | 62.3 |
| 2023 | 99 | #1,985 | 61.7 |
| 2022 | 120 | #1,731 | 73.2 |
| 2021 | 117 | #1,750 | 71.3 |
| 2020 | 115 | #1,743 | 71.1 |
| 2019 | 97 | #1,987 | 57.8 |
| 2018 | 120 | #1,718 | 70.5 |
| 2017 | 103 | #1,943 | 59.7 |
| 2016 | 101 | #1,972 | 57.0 |
Every recorded year (50)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 82 | #2,278 | 45.9 |
| 2014 | 88 | #2,154 | 49.3 |
| 2013 | 117 | #1,754 | 66.7 |
| 2012 | 105 | #1,904 | 59.6 |
| 2011 | 81 | #2,300 | 46.0 |
| 2010 | 59 | #2,906 | 33.2 |
| 2009 | 74 | #2,532 | 40.3 |
| 2008 | 85 | #2,295 | 45.0 |
| 2007 | 81 | #2,350 | 42.1 |
| 2006 | 91 | #2,128 | 47.9 |
| 2005 | 79 | #2,277 | 42.8 |
| 2004 | 65 | #2,555 | 35.4 |
| 2003 | 54 | #2,839 | 29.6 |
| 2002 | 42 | #3,282 | 23.4 |
| 2001 | 32 | #3,943 | 17.8 |
| 2000 | 41 | #3,266 | 22.6 |
| 1999 | 36 | #3,440 | 20.3 |
| 1998 | 23 | #4,642 | 13.0 |
| 1997 | 26 | #4,128 | 14.9 |
| 1996 | 26 | #4,059 | 14.8 |
| 1995 | 18 | #5,223 | 10.2 |
| 1994 | 14 | #6,332 | 7.8 |
| 1993 | 16 | #5,679 | 8.8 |
| 1992 | 13 | #6,664 | 7.1 |
| 1991 | 7 | #10,309 | 3.7 |
| 1990 | 13 | #6,472 | 6.8 |
| 1989 | 15 | #5,548 | 8.1 |
| 1988 | 9 | #7,714 | 5.1 |
| 1987 | 7 | #8,809 | 4.0 |
| 1986 | 11 | #6,180 | 6.4 |
| 1985 | 13 | #5,364 | 7.6 |
| 1984 | 15 | #4,743 | 8.9 |
| 1983 | 23 | #3,434 | 13.8 |
| 1982 | 17 | #4,352 | 10.0 |
| 1981 | 12 | #5,582 | 7.2 |
| 1980 | 26 | #3,217 | 15.7 |
| 1979 | 25 | #3,242 | 15.6 |
| 1978 | 22 | #3,391 | 14.4 |
| 1977 | 20 | #3,613 | 13.0 |
| 1976 | 16 | #3,968 | 10.9 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Ameerah a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Ameerah has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 50 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Ameerah: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Ameerah, and how old are they?
2,620 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 2,645 Americans ever recorded as Ameerah. The median Ameerah alive today is 13 years old; half are between 7 and 21.
The 2020 Census counted 1,654 people named Ameerah (1,652 women and girls, 2 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,028 born in the U.S. The Census count is 18% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 104 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 223 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 964 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,330 |
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 Ameerah born?
The states with the most babies named Ameerah are New York, California and Texas, with 83% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 15 | #984 | 1.3× |
| California | 5 | #3,137 | 0.8× |
| Texas | 5 | #3,324 | 0.6× |
| Michigan | 5 | #1,224 | 0.2× |
Where Ameerah is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Ameerah is most over-represented in New York: since 1976 it was given 1.3 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 girls’ 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 Ameerah 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 22,986 babies since 1880, Ameerah is the third most given (12% of them). In 2025 it was given to 73 of their 1,233 babies (5.9%), the fifth 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 Ameerah
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 Ameerah and names like it
- Compare Ameerah and AmirahBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sAmeerah peaked in 2018.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Ameerah since 1910.
- The top names of 2018The year the most babies were named Ameerah.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Ameerah alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with AMost given first.