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Aamir

#2,035 in 2025Boys' name

Multiple documented origins; meaning depends on tradition

Aamir has been given to 2,697 babies in the U.S. since 1974. In 2025 it ranked #2,035 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2015, with 144 recorded.

Babies named Aamir, 2025

1 in 45,400

Aamir over time, 1880–2025

BoysGirls
05010015018801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Aamir: meaning, origin, and history

Multiple documented origins; meaning depends on tradition

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Aamir means

Aamir has more than one naming route in the cited origin entries: distinct naming traditions.

The naming story behind Aamir

One of the source’s documented entries for Aamir records a meaning of prosperous, substantial, populated.

A separate documented entry treats Aamir as a variant of Amir. That is a personal-name relationship, which differs from translating the letters of the modern spelling into one universal English word. The linked origin entry identifies the context of this relationship.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,691 boys were recorded with the name Aamir between 1974 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 144 in 2015; its best national rank was #1,252 in 2015.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #1,398 in 2020 to #2,035 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #1,252 in 2015 to #2,035 in 2025.

In the United States, 6 girls were recorded with the name Aamir between 2013 and 2013. Its highest annual count was 6 in 2013; its best national rank was #14,586 in 2013.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

How common is Aamir?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 45,400
73 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 23,400
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#2,035
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
31,479 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Aamir sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 5001%

Put another way: gather 31,479 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Aamir. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Aamirs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Aamir was born before 2014 — so the typical Aamir is around 11 today.

Median birth year
2014
About 11 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
44.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
84.8%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
2,691
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 44.0% of all recorded uses (1,183).

Is Aamir rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
−114
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−637
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−783
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.51×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
50.7%
Peak was 2015 (144)
Years since peak
10
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
19.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,252
2015

Spellings of Aamir

Aamir is not the most common spelling — Jamie is, with 20.6% against Aamir's 0.62%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Aamir is used

Across 2016–2025, Aamir was most concentrated in Maryland — about 1 in 5,556 boys, against 1 in 15,020 across all states with data. It was least common in Michigan (1 in 50,000).

218 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Maryland1 in 5,556
  2. 2Georgia1 in 7,143
  3. 3Florida1 in 9,091
  4. 4New York1 in 9,091
  5. 5North Carolina1 in 14,286
  6. 6Illinois1 in 16,667
  7. 7New Jersey1 in 16,667
  8. 8Ohio1 in 16,667

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings.

Aamir around the world

Where Aamir ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1996–2025
    #1,897
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    1991–1994
    #325
    in 1994
  • France
    2024–2024
    #5,973
    in 2024
  • Canada
    1992–2024
    #2,328
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1989–1989
    #478
    in 1989

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Aamir

People whose public names include Aamir, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Aamir by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#2,035
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 637
Best rank ever
#1,252
2015
Peak year
2015
144 that year
First recorded
1974
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,691
Count in 2025
73

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#14,586
2013
Peak year
2013
6 that year
First recorded
2013
Last recorded
2013
All-time count
6
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Aamir

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

TamirDamirZymirAhmirZamirTymirDemirRamirKymirNamirJahmirYamirJamirShamirSamirEmirSymirLamirAlmirNymirRahmirZahmirAamariRomir

Names with a curve like Aamir

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Aamir, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Aamir

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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