Amr
Amr was given to 20 boys in 2025, #4,864 among boys’ names; 976 Americans have been recorded with it since 1974 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Amr by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Amr?
#4,864 among boys’ names, 2025
Amr fell from #3,300 in 2015 to #4,864 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 17.7 to 11.7 per million.
54 babies in 2007, the peak
Amr peaked in 2007, when 54 boys were given it, #2,375 among boys’ names. The 20 births of 2025 are 37% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 20 | #4,864 | 11.7 |
| 2024 | 20 | #4,892 | 11.6 |
| 2023 | 13 | #6,544 | 7.6 |
| 2022 | 13 | #6,496 | 7.4 |
| 2021 | 18 | #5,115 | 10.3 |
| 2020 | 21 | #4,544 | 12.2 |
| 2019 | 23 | #4,338 | 12.8 |
| 2018 | 22 | #4,483 | 12.1 |
| 2017 | 21 | #4,600 | 11.3 |
| 2016 | 22 | #4,480 | 11.6 |
Every recorded year (46)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 34 | #3,300 | 17.7 |
| 2014 | 28 | #3,695 | 14.6 |
| 2013 | 25 | #3,971 | 13.2 |
| 2012 | 25 | #4,005 | 13.2 |
| 2011 | 35 | #3,170 | 18.4 |
| 2010 | 24 | #4,105 | 12.5 |
| 2009 | 40 | #2,947 | 20.2 |
| 2008 | 34 | #3,288 | 16.7 |
| 2007 | 54 | #2,375 | 26.0 |
| 2006 | 37 | #2,984 | 18.0 |
| 2005 | 41 | #2,655 | 20.5 |
| 2004 | 46 | #2,417 | 23.2 |
| 2003 | 35 | #2,781 | 17.7 |
| 2002 | 35 | #2,685 | 18.0 |
| 2001 | 20 | #3,971 | 10.3 |
| 2000 | 29 | #2,992 | 14.8 |
| 1999 | 19 | #3,839 | 9.9 |
| 1998 | 24 | #3,191 | 12.6 |
| 1997 | 18 | #3,739 | 9.5 |
| 1996 | 22 | #3,201 | 11.6 |
| 1995 | 16 | #3,857 | 8.4 |
| 1994 | 20 | #3,327 | 10.4 |
| 1993 | 15 | #4,018 | 7.6 |
| 1992 | 13 | #4,328 | 6.5 |
| 1991 | 8 | #5,958 | 4.0 |
| 1990 | 10 | #5,005 | 4.9 |
| 1989 | 5 | #7,953 | 2.5 |
| 1988 | 15 | #3,351 | 7.8 |
| 1987 | 10 | #4,242 | 5.4 |
| 1986 | 8 | #4,862 | 4.3 |
| 1985 | 7 | #5,164 | 3.8 |
| 1983 | 9 | #4,145 | 5.0 |
| 1981 | 6 | #5,503 | 3.3 |
| 1980 | 5 | #6,290 | 2.8 |
| 1977 | 6 | #5,148 | 3.7 |
| 1974 | 5 | #5,250 | 3.2 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Amr a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Amr has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 46 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Amr: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Amr, and how old are they?
An estimated 957 Americans named Amr and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 19 years old and half are between 12 and 26. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 2,021 people named Amr (36 women and girls, 1,985 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 863 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.3 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.
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 Amr born?
The states with the most babies named Amr are New York, Michigan and California, with 86% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 131 | not ranked | 2.1× |
| Michigan | 24 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| California | 18 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| New Jersey | 17 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Virginia | 7 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Texas | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
Where Amr is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Amr is most over-represented in New York: since 1974 it was given 2.1 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 Amr 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, Amr is the eighth most given (1.2% of them). In 2025 it was given to 20 of their 4,130 babies (<1%), again the eighth 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 Amr
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 Amr and names like it
- Compare Amr and AmirBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sAmr peaked in 2007.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Amr since 1910.
- The top names of 2007The year the most babies were named Amr.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Amr alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with AMost given first.