Emir
Emir was given to 546 boys in 2025, #551 among boys’ names; 5,620 Americans have been recorded with it since 1970 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 5,560 Americans named Emir and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 6 years old and half are between 3 and 15.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Emir by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Emir mean?
Wiktionary, Turkish section
Emir is “a male given name from Arabic, which means prince, commander or other leader or ruler in an Islamic nation”
Inherited from Ottoman Turkish امیر (emir), from Arabic أَمِيرْ (ʔamīr).
[emiɾ]
Meaning: Wiktionary, Turkish section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Emir?
#551 among boys’ names, 2025
Emir rose from #1,241 in 2015 to #551 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 0.08 to 0.32 per 1,000.
546 babies in 2025, the peak
Emir peaked in 2025, when 546 boys were given it, #551 among boys’ names. In 2024 it went to 532 boys.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 546 | #551 | 0.32 |
| 2024 | 532 | #558 | 0.31 |
| 2023 | 492 | #583 | 0.29 |
| 2022 | 449 | #623 | 0.26 |
| 2021 | 383 | #695 | 0.22 |
| 2020 | 411 | #650 | 0.24 |
| 2019 | 237 | #923 | 0.13 |
| 2018 | 198 | #1,030 | 0.11 |
| 2017 | 200 | #1,011 | 0.11 |
| 2016 | 117 | #1,473 | 0.06 |
Every recorded year (53)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 147 | #1,241 | 0.08 |
| 2014 | 152 | #1,210 | 0.08 |
| 2013 | 153 | #1,176 | 0.08 |
| 2012 | 155 | #1,176 | 0.08 |
| 2011 | 132 | #1,297 | 0.07 |
| 2010 | 104 | #1,545 | 0.05 |
| 2009 | 122 | #1,396 | 0.06 |
| 2008 | 123 | #1,381 | 0.06 |
| 2007 | 181 | #1,042 | 0.09 |
| 2006 | 116 | #1,382 | 0.06 |
| 2005 | 83 | #1,638 | 0.04 |
| 2004 | 65 | #1,888 | 0.03 |
| 2003 | 54 | #2,080 | 0.03 |
| 2002 | 53 | #2,048 | 0.03 |
| 2001 | 36 | #2,631 | 0.02 |
| 2000 | 46 | #2,176 | 0.02 |
| 1999 | 31 | #2,743 | 0.02 |
| 1998 | 25 | #3,118 | 0.01 |
| 1997 | 31 | #2,560 | 0.02 |
| 1996 | 21 | #3,318 | 0.01 |
| 1995 | 19 | #3,461 | 0.01 |
| 1994 | 16 | #3,970 | 0.01 |
| 1993 | 20 | #3,281 | 0.01 |
| 1992 | 17 | #3,648 | 0.01 |
| 1991 | 15 | #3,864 | 0.01 |
| 1990 | 9 | #5,503 | under 0.01 |
| 1989 | 7 | #6,419 | under 0.01 |
| 1988 | 7 | #5,959 | under 0.01 |
| 1987 | 10 | #4,340 | 0.01 |
| 1986 | 12 | #3,704 | 0.01 |
| 1984 | 10 | #4,006 | 0.01 |
| 1983 | 5 | #6,551 | under 0.01 |
| 1982 | 6 | #5,866 | under 0.01 |
| 1981 | 6 | #5,716 | under 0.01 |
| 1980 | 7 | #5,103 | under 0.01 |
| 1979 | 7 | #5,002 | under 0.01 |
| 1978 | 7 | #4,687 | under 0.01 |
| 1976 | 11 | #3,336 | 0.01 |
| 1975 | 6 | #4,998 | under 0.01 |
| 1974 | 8 | #3,942 | 0.01 |
| 1972 | 5 | #5,196 | under 0.01 |
| 1971 | 5 | #5,145 | under 0.01 |
| 1970 | 5 | #4,929 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Emir a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Emir has been given almost only to boys: 5 girls in 53 years of records.
Girls and boys named Emir: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Emir, and how old are they?
5,560 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 5,620 Americans ever recorded as Emir. The median Emir alive today is 6 years old; half are between 3 and 15.
The 2020 Census counted 3,655 people named Emir (71 women and girls, 3,584 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,873 born in the U.S. The Census count is 27% above 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 | 55 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 172 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,340 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 3,990 |
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 Emir born?
The states with the most babies named Emir are Texas, California and New York, with 37% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 71 | #469 | 0.9× |
| California | 69 | #463 | 1.1× |
| New York | 48 | #369 | 1.7× |
| Florida | 37 | #493 | 1.1× |
| Georgia | 30 | #389 | 1.1× |
| Illinois | 29 | #367 | 1.3× |
| New Jersey | 23 | #360 | 1.3× |
| North Carolina | 18 | #547 | 0.8× |
| Maryland | 16 | #333 | 1.1× |
| Tennessee | 16 | #487 | 0.4× |
Where Emir is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Emir is most over-represented in New York: since 1970 it was given 1.7 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 Emir 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 2 names spelled alike, given to 5,747 babies since 1880, Emir is the most given (98% of them). In 2025 it was given to 546 of their 566 babies (96%), again the 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 Emir
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 Emir and names like it
- Compare Emir and EmyrBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sEmir peaked in 2025.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Emir since 1910.
- Arabic namesWiktionary’s origin for Emir: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2025The year the most babies were named Emir.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Emir alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with EMost given first.