Ameerah — #1958 US girls' name

What the Data Says About Ameerah

The Social Security Administration has registered 2,570 babies named Ameerah between 1976 and 2024, spanning 49 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Ameerah currently holds the #1958 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2018, when 120 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Ameerah performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 952 births during that ten-year window. Across the 6 decades of recorded activity, Ameerah shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 277 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by New York and Texas. In total, SSA state-level files list Ameerah in 15 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Ameerah in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 2,570 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.