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Ameer

#980 in 2025Boys' name

Commander, prince, through Amir

Ameer has been given to 6,596 babies in the U.S. since 1969. In 2025 it ranked #980 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2021, with 287 recorded.

Babies named Ameer, 2025

1 in 14,200

Ameer over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Ameer: meaning, origin, and history

Commander, prince, through Amir

Arabic

What Ameer means

Ameer belongs to the name family reached through Ameer → Amir. Its meaning is “commander, prince”.

Origin, language, and formation

Ameer is used in English. Its origins include Arabic.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Amir.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 6,596 boys were recorded with the name Ameer between 1969 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 287 in 2021; its best national rank was #809 in 2016.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #833 in 2020 to #980 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #836 in 2015 to #980 in 2025.

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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Ameer?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 14,200
233 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 7,330
0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#980
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
9,863 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Ameer 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 5003%

Put another way: gather 9,863 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Ameer. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Ameers were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Ameer was born before 2013 — so the typical Ameer is around 12 today.

Median birth year
2013
About 12 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
36.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
78.9%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
6,596
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 36.9% of all recorded uses (2,436).

Is Ameer 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
−49
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−147
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−144
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.87×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
81.2%
Peak was 2021 (287)
Years since peak
4
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Steady
9.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#809
2016

Spellings of Ameer

Ameer is not the most common spelling — Asher is, with 42.5% against Ameer's 2.5%.

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 Ameer is used

Across 2016–2025, Ameer was most concentrated in Michigan — about 1 in 1,613 boys, against 1 in 6,109 across all states with data. It was least common in Washington (1 in 100,000).

162 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Michigan1 in 1,613
  2. 2Illinois1 in 2,632
  3. 3New York1 in 3,226
  4. 4Ohio1 in 4,348
  5. 5New Jersey1 in 4,762
  6. 6Virginia1 in 4,762
  7. 7Georgia1 in 5,263
  8. 8Florida1 in 6,250

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.

Geographically, Ameer is one of the more regionally concentrated names in the country — more concentrated than 91% of the names used widely enough to compare. See the most regional names

Ameer around the world

Where Ameer 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
    #782
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2007–2025
    #400
    in 2025
  • Ireland
    2012–2025
    #577
    in 2025
  • France
    2013–2025
    #6,167
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1991–2024
    #575
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1993–2013
    #754
    in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Central Statistics Office, 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. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Notable people named Ameer

People whose public names include Ameer, 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.

Ameer by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#980
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 147
Best rank ever
#809
2016
Peak year
2021
287 that year
First recorded
1969
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
6,596
Count in 2025
233

Names similar to Ameer

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

AmeenAmereAmesAmeirAmerAmericoAmenSameerVeerAmelAmelioJameerGreerAmeyaAveerAmeliaAmellAmedeoNaseerAbeerAmeriZaheerNazeerMuneer

Names with a curve like Ameer

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

YousefJerichoMordechaiShimonShmuelYisroelCainAndersCanaanMustafaShlomoArian

Sibling names for Ameer

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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