Amer
Amer was given to 23 boys in 2025, #4,403 among boys’ names; 1,450 Americans have been recorded with it since 1927 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,410 Americans named Amer and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 24 years old and half are between 13 and 33.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Amer by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Amer?
#4,403 among boys’ names, 2025
Amer fell from #2,920 in 2015 to #4,403 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 20.9 to 13.5 per million.
50 babies in 2003, the peak
Amer peaked in 2003, when 50 boys were given it, #2,177 among boys’ names. The 23 births of 2025 are 46% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 23 | #4,403 | 13.5 |
| 2024 | 20 | #4,890 | 11.6 |
| 2023 | 27 | #4,003 | 15.8 |
| 2022 | 25 | #4,184 | 14.3 |
| 2021 | 22 | #4,495 | 12.6 |
| 2020 | 22 | #4,429 | 12.7 |
| 2019 | 29 | #3,719 | 16.2 |
| 2018 | 22 | #4,482 | 12.1 |
| 2017 | 36 | #3,193 | 19.4 |
| 2016 | 29 | #3,686 | 15.3 |
Every recorded year (54)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 40 | #2,920 | 20.9 |
| 2014 | 25 | #4,017 | 13.0 |
| 2013 | 35 | #3,127 | 18.5 |
| 2012 | 21 | #4,537 | 11.1 |
| 2011 | 32 | #3,365 | 16.8 |
| 2010 | 34 | #3,243 | 17.7 |
| 2009 | 40 | #2,946 | 20.2 |
| 2008 | 28 | #3,741 | 13.7 |
| 2007 | 34 | #3,252 | 16.4 |
| 2006 | 42 | #2,744 | 20.4 |
| 2005 | 31 | #3,239 | 15.5 |
| 2004 | 30 | #3,214 | 15.1 |
| 2003 | 50 | #2,177 | 25.3 |
| 2002 | 43 | #2,372 | 22.1 |
| 2001 | 46 | #2,214 | 23.7 |
| 2000 | 39 | #2,422 | 19.9 |
| 1999 | 46 | #2,060 | 24.0 |
| 1998 | 48 | #1,984 | 25.1 |
| 1997 | 46 | #1,963 | 24.4 |
| 1996 | 35 | #2,295 | 18.5 |
| 1995 | 37 | #2,174 | 19.4 |
| 1994 | 31 | #2,441 | 16.0 |
| 1993 | 39 | #2,045 | 19.9 |
| 1992 | 35 | #2,172 | 17.5 |
| 1991 | 30 | #2,338 | 14.8 |
| 1990 | 30 | #2,305 | 14.6 |
| 1989 | 22 | #2,783 | 11.0 |
| 1988 | 25 | #2,363 | 13.1 |
| 1987 | 19 | #2,725 | 10.2 |
| 1986 | 19 | #2,685 | 10.3 |
| 1985 | 15 | #3,073 | 8.1 |
| 1984 | 16 | #2,827 | 8.9 |
| 1983 | 22 | #2,271 | 12.3 |
| 1982 | 9 | #4,241 | 5.0 |
| 1981 | 10 | #3,867 | 5.6 |
| 1980 | 19 | #2,537 | 10.7 |
| 1979 | 9 | #4,079 | 5.2 |
| 1978 | 10 | #3,622 | 6.1 |
| 1977 | 11 | #3,393 | 6.7 |
| 1976 | 8 | #4,024 | 5.1 |
| 1974 | 7 | #4,203 | 4.5 |
| 1971 | 5 | #4,940 | 2.8 |
| 1968 | 5 | #4,155 | 2.9 |
| 1927 | 5 | #4,224 | 4.4 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Amer a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Amer has been given almost only to boys: 12 girls in 54 years of records.
Girls and boys named Amer: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Amer, and how old are they?
1,410 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 97% of the 1,450 Americans ever recorded as Amer. The median Amer alive today is 24 years old; half are between 13 and 33.
The 2020 Census counted 3,349 people named Amer (146 women and girls, 3,203 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,285 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.6 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 67 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 388 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 599 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 352 |
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 Amer born?
The states with the most babies named Amer are New York, California and Illinois, with 87% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 118 | not ranked | 1.3× |
| California | 105 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Illinois | 67 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Michigan | 22 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Florida | 6 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| New Jersey | 6 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Missouri | 5 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Texas | 5 | not ranked | 0.0× |
Where Amer is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Amer is most over-represented in New York: since 1927 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 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 Amer 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 80,212 babies since 1880, Amer is the seventh most given (1.8% of them). In 2025 it was given to 23 of their 4,130 babies (<1%), again the seventh 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 Amer
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 Amer and names like it
- Compare Amer and AmirBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sAmer peaked in 2003.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Amer since 1910.
- The top names of 2003The year the most babies were named Amer.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Amer alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with AMost given first.