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Ameerah

#2,440 in 2025Girls' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Ameerah has been given to 2,645 babies in the U.S. since 1976. In 2025 it ranked #2,440 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2018, with 120 recorded.

Babies named Ameerah, 2025

1 in 45,400

Ameerah over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Ameerah: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Ameerah means

Ameerah is a given name.

The naming story behind Ameerah

Wikidata records Ameerah as a given name. The entity identifier is Q113099930, and the classification was checked on 2026-10-20. The spelling matches a source label or alias exactly, without removing accents or linking it to a name merely because the letters look similar.

A database classification is different from an etymological explanation, so those questions remain open in the short meaning.

A modern root explanation needs an additional naming or linguistic reference.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,645 girls were recorded with the name Ameerah between 1976 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 120 in 2018; its best national rank was #1,718 in 2018.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #1,743 in 2020 to #2,440 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #2,278 in 2015 to #2,440 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.

How common is Ameerah?

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 girls only
1 in 22,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#2,440
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
31,479 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Ameerah sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

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 Ameerah. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Ameerahs were born

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

Median birth year
2013
About 12 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
36.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
82.5%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
2,645
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 36.0% of all recorded uses (953).

Is Ameerah 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
−485
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−697
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−162
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.89×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
60.8%
Peak was 2018 (120)
Years since peak
7
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
15.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,718
2018

Spellings of Ameerah

Ameerah is not the most common spelling — Amirah is, with 28.6% against Ameerah's 7.0%.

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 Ameerah is used

Across 2016–2025, Ameerah was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in 6,667 girls, against 1 in 14,036 across all states with data. It was least common in New Jersey (1 in 100,000).

115 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New York1 in 6,667
  2. 2Georgia1 in 8,333
  3. 3Illinois1 in 10,000
  4. 4Maryland1 in 12,500
  5. 5California1 in 14,286
  6. 6Florida1 in 14,286
  7. 7Pennsylvania1 in 16,667
  8. 8Texas1 in 16,667

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls 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.

Ameerah around the world

Where Ameerah 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
    #526
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2010–2025
    #780
    in 2025
  • Ireland
    2008–2024
    #898
    in 2024
  • France
    2018–2025
    #5,738
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2007–2024
    #1,231
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    2007–2009
    #818
    in 2009

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 Ameerah

People whose public names include Ameerah, 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.

Ameerah by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#2,440
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 697
Best rank ever
#1,718
2018
Peak year
2018
120 that year
First recorded
1976
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,645
Count in 2025
73

Names similar to Ameerah

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

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Names with a curve like Ameerah

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

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Sibling names for Ameerah

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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