Amire
Amire is given to both girls and boys: 5 girls and 31 boys were given it in 2025 (#15,089 among girls’ names and #3,583 among boys’, #6,975 among all names counting both); 942 Americans have been recorded with it since 1990 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Amire by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Amire?
#3,583 among boys’ names, 2025
Amire fell from #3,233 in 2015 to #3,583 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 18.3 to 18.1 per million.
55 babies in 2012, the peak
Amire peaked in 2012, when 55 babies were given it (46 boys, #2,632 among boys’ names). The 36 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 65% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #15,089 | 31 | #3,583 |
| 2024 | 8 | #11,182 | 41 | #3,001 |
| 2023 | under 5 | 31 | #3,628 | |
| 2022 | 5 | #15,469 | 39 | #3,101 |
| 2021 | under 5 | 35 | #3,301 | |
| 2020 | 6 | #13,558 | 44 | #2,760 |
| 2019 | under 5 | 30 | #3,641 | |
| 2018 | under 5 | 26 | #3,995 | |
| 2017 | under 5 | 38 | #3,073 | |
| 2016 | under 5 | 30 | #3,597 |
Every recorded year (30)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | under 5 | 35 | #3,233 | |
| 2014 | 6 | #14,708 | 40 | #2,888 |
| 2013 | 6 | #14,731 | 38 | #2,955 |
| 2012 | 9 | #11,327 | 46 | #2,632 |
| 2011 | under 5 | 31 | #3,437 | |
| 2010 | 12 | #9,266 | 24 | #4,104 |
| 2009 | under 5 | 34 | #3,274 | |
| 2008 | 8 | #12,650 | 37 | #3,107 |
| 2007 | 9 | #11,692 | 29 | #3,594 |
| 2006 | 8 | #12,501 | 25 | #3,889 |
| 2005 | 8 | #11,895 | 27 | #3,529 |
| 2004 | 7 | #12,849 | 31 | #3,158 |
| 2003 | 5 | #15,928 | 20 | #4,116 |
| 2002 | under 5 | 13 | #5,406 | |
| 2001 | under 5 | 6 | #9,292 | |
| 2000 | under 5 | 18 | #4,203 | |
| 1999 | under 5 | 9 | #6,547 | |
| 1998 | 5 | #14,255 | 12 | #5,164 |
| 1996 | under 5 | 9 | #5,993 | |
| 1990 | under 5 | 6 | #7,210 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Amire a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 942 Americans recorded as Amire, 11% are girls and 89% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Amire: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Amire, and how old are they?
An estimated 932 Americans named Amire and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 13 years old and half are between 6 and 19. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 650 people named Amire (132 women and girls, 518 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 703 born in the U.S. The Census count is 8% below that prediction.
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 71,102 babies since 1880, Amire is the eighth most given (1.3% of them). In 2025 it was given to 36 of their 3,786 babies (<1%), the sixth 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 Amire
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 Amire and names like it
- Compare Amire and AmariBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sAmire peaked in 2012.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Amire since 1910.
- The top names of 2012The year the most babies were named Amire.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Amire alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with AMost given first.