Amira Girl
How popular is Amira?
#132 girl name in 2025
2,168 baby girls were named Amira in the US in 2025, making it the 132nd most popular girl name.
Amira popularity over time
Boys Girls
| Rank in 2025 | #132 for girls (▲ 4 from 2024) |
|---|---|
| Babies in 2025 | 2,168 girls |
| 10-year trend | Rising fast (+152% babies vs 2015) |
| Earlier ranks | #380 in 2015, #283 in 2020 |
| Peak year | 2024 (2,182 girls) |
| Highest rank | #131 in 2023 |
| First recorded | 1963 |
| Boys vs girls (last 10 years) | 0% boys, 100% girls |
| Chance a classmate shares it | 2% in a class of 25 kids born in 2025 |
Amira counting every spelling
Social Security counts each spelling as its own name. Adding together the spellings that sound alike, the Amira family of names ranked #108 for girls in 2025 (#100 the year before), with 3,107 babies in all.
| Spelling | Girls in 2025 | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Amira | 2,168 | 70% |
| Amirah | 603 | 19% |
| Amyra | 201 | 6% |
| Amyrah | 70 | 2% |
| Aamira | 13 | 0% |
| Aamirah | 7 | 0% |
| Amirra | 18 | 1% |
| Amirrah | 11 | 0% |
| Ahmira | 11 | 0% |
| Ahmirah | 5 | 0% |
Spellings are grouped by how they sound, using our own rules, so a few groupings may not match how your family says the name.
Where Amira is most popular
Babies named Amira per 1,000 girls born in each state, 2021 to 2025. Darker means more common.
- District of Columbia: 4.9 per 1,000 (58 girls)
- Minnesota: 3.0 per 1,000 (326 girls)
- Hawaii: 2.4 per 1,000 (27 girls)
- New Mexico: 2.1 per 1,000 (51 girls)
- Nevada: 1.9 per 1,000 (90 girls)
Amira by decade
| Decade | Baby girls | Best rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 24 | #4,865 |
| 1970s | 257 | #2,304 |
| 1980s | 595 | #1,476 |
| 1990s | 1,563 | #915 |
| 2000s | 4,635 | #437 |
| 2010s | 8,199 | #283 |
| 2020s | 10,336 | #131 |
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Questions
- Is Amira a boy or girl name?
- Amira is mostly a girl name. Over the last 10 years, 100% of babies named Amira were girls.
- How popular is the name Amira?
- 2,168 baby girls were named Amira in the US in 2025, making it the 132nd most popular girl name.
- When was Amira most popular?
- Amira peaked in 2024, when 2,182 girls were given the name. Its highest rank was #131 in 2023.
- How many people are named Amira?
- 25,614 babies have been named Amira in the US since 1880. We estimate about 25,450 of them are alive in 2026, with a median age of 9.
- Where is Amira most popular?
- From 2021 to 2025, Amira was most common in District of Columbia, at 4.9 of every 1,000 girls born there.
Source: Social Security Administration baby name data, 1880 to 2025 (names given to at least 5 babies of a sex in a year). Living-people and median-age figures are our estimates using US life tables. How we calculate.