Amira
Amira was given to 2,168 girls in 2025, #132 among girls’ names; 25,614 Americans have been recorded with it since 1963 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 25,400 Americans named Amira and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 9 years old and half are between 3 and 17.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Amira by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Amira mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Amira is “a female given name from Arabic, masculine equivalent Amir” Its etymology gives the sense “princess” (أَمِيرَة).
Borrowed from Arabic أَمِيرَة (ʔamīra, “princess”).
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Amira?
#132 among girls’ names, 2025
Amira rose from #380 in 2015 to #132 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 0.48 to 1.3 per 1,000.
2,187 babies in 2024, the peak
Amira peaked in 2024, when 2,187 babies were given it (2,182 girls, #137 among girls’ names). The 2,168 births of 2025 are 99% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 2,168 | #132 | 1.3 |
| 2024 | 2,182 | #137 | 1.3 |
| 2023 | 2,108 | #131 | 1.3 |
| 2022 | 1,396 | #209 | 0.85 |
| 2021 | 1,353 | #219 | 0.82 |
| 2020 | 1,129 | #283 | 0.70 |
| 2019 | 1,167 | #283 | 0.70 |
| 2018 | 1,043 | #315 | 0.61 |
| 2017 | 1,024 | #317 | 0.59 |
| 2016 | 874 | #373 | 0.49 |
Every recorded year (60)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 859 | #380 | 0.48 |
| 2014 | 767 | #418 | 0.43 |
| 2013 | 664 | #459 | 0.38 |
| 2012 | 610 | #503 | 0.35 |
| 2011 | 587 | #500 | 0.33 |
| 2010 | 604 | #495 | 0.34 |
| 2009 | 645 | #478 | 0.35 |
| 2008 | 729 | #437 | 0.39 |
| 2007 | 603 | #521 | 0.31 |
| 2006 | 513 | #571 | 0.27 |
| 2005 | 480 | #593 | 0.26 |
| 2004 | 419 | #651 | 0.23 |
| 2003 | 374 | #700 | 0.20 |
| 2002 | 318 | #759 | 0.18 |
| 2001 | 286 | #818 | 0.16 |
| 2000 | 268 | #835 | 0.15 |
| 1999 | 221 | #943 | 0.12 |
| 1998 | 229 | #915 | 0.13 |
| 1997 | 183 | #1,039 | 0.11 |
| 1996 | 160 | #1,131 | 0.09 |
| 1995 | 147 | #1,167 | 0.08 |
| 1994 | 153 | #1,157 | 0.09 |
| 1993 | 147 | #1,178 | 0.08 |
| 1992 | 113 | #1,428 | 0.06 |
| 1991 | 117 | #1,371 | 0.06 |
| 1990 | 93 | #1,602 | 0.05 |
| 1989 | 98 | #1,477 | 0.05 |
| 1988 | 79 | #1,637 | 0.04 |
| 1987 | 52 | #2,099 | 0.03 |
| 1986 | 61 | #1,838 | 0.04 |
| 1985 | 61 | #1,832 | 0.04 |
| 1984 | 54 | #1,922 | 0.03 |
| 1983 | 50 | #2,022 | 0.03 |
| 1982 | 45 | #2,221 | 0.03 |
| 1981 | 48 | #2,120 | 0.03 |
| 1980 | 47 | #2,157 | 0.03 |
| 1979 | 41 | #2,307 | 0.03 |
| 1978 | 36 | #2,433 | 0.02 |
| 1977 | 26 | #3,002 | 0.02 |
| 1976 | 28 | #2,730 | 0.02 |
| 1975 | 25 | #2,882 | 0.02 |
| 1974 | 26 | #2,757 | 0.02 |
| 1973 | 25 | #2,755 | 0.02 |
| 1972 | 25 | #2,748 | 0.02 |
| 1971 | 13 | #4,314 | 0.01 |
| 1970 | 12 | #4,499 | 0.01 |
| 1969 | 6 | #6,641 | under 0.01 |
| 1967 | 5 | #6,830 | under 0.01 |
| 1966 | 8 | #4,873 | under 0.01 |
| 1963 | 5 | #6,614 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Amira a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Amira has been given almost only to girls: 5 boys in 60 years of records.
Girls and boys named Amira: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Amira, and how old are they?
25,400 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 25,614 Americans ever recorded as Amira. The median Amira alive today is 9 years old; half are between 3 and 17.
The 2020 Census counted 16,499 people named Amira (16,409 women and girls, 90 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 15,420 born in the U.S. The Census count is 7% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 4 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 304 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,440 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 7,000 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 16,600 |
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 Amira born?
The states with the most babies named Amira are California, Texas and Florida, with 32% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 289 | #101 | 0.8× |
| Texas | 218 | #146 | 0.7× |
| Florida | 186 | #85 | 1.1× |
| New York | 166 | #82 | 1.3× |
| Ohio | 82 | #134 | 1.1× |
| Illinois | 81 | #111 | 1.1× |
| Georgia | 74 | #134 | 1.0× |
| Minnesota | 73 | #58 | 1.8× |
| Michigan | 70 | #114 | 1.1× |
| Pennsylvania | 61 | #184 | 1.2× |
Where Amira is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Amira is most over-represented in District of Columbia: since 1963 it was given 2.2 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 Amira 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 87,697 babies since 1880, Amira is the second most given (29% of them). In 2025 it was given to 2,168 of their 7,712 babies (28%), 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 Amira
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 Amira and names like it
- Compare Amira and AmaraBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sAmira peaked in 2024.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Amira since 1910.
- Arabic namesWiktionary’s origin for Amira: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2024The year the most babies were named Amira.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Amira alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with AMost given first.