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Amer

#4,403 in 2025Boys' name

Alternate transcription of Aamir

Amer has been given to 1,450 babies in the U.S. since 1927. In 2025 it ranked #4,403 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2003, with 50 recorded.

Babies named Amer, 2025

1 in 144,000

Amer over time, 1880–2025

BoysGirls
020406018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Amer: meaning, origin, and history

Alternate transcription of Aamir

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Amer means

Amer is a alternate transcription of Aamir.

Meaning behind the documented name family

Amer is a alternate transcription of Aamir. Aamir has more than one origin or interpretation.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Aamir.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,438 boys were recorded with the name Amer between 1927 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 50 in 2003; its best national rank was #1,963 in 1997.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #4,429 in 2020 to #4,403 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #2,920 in 2015 to #4,403 in 2025.

In the United States, 12 girls were recorded with the name Amer between 1986 and 1987. Its highest annual count was 7 in 1987; its best national rank was #8,810 in 1987.

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 Amer?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 144,000
23 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 74,300
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#4,403
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
99,910 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Amer 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 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 99,910 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Amer. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Amers were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Amer was born before 2002 — so the typical Amer is around 23 today.

Median birth year
2002
About 23 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
26.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
54.7%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
1,433
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Choose a decade

2000s — 26.6% of all recorded uses (383).

Is Amer 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
+487
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+26
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
−1,483
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.57×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
46.0%
Peak was 2003 (50)
Years since peak
22
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
26.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,963
1997

Spellings of Amer

Amer is not the most common spelling — James is, with 77.7% against Amer's 0.02%.

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 Amer is used

Across 1910–2025, Amer was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 100,000 boys, against 1 in 221,138 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 100,000
  2. 2Illinois1 in 100,000
  3. 3New York1 in 100,000
  4. 4Florida1 in —
  5. 5Michigan1 in —
  6. 6Missouri1 in —
  7. 7New Jersey1 in —
  8. 8Texas1 in —

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. Amer has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Amer around the world

Where Amer 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
    #2,440
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    1981–1985
    #277
    in 1985
  • France
    1974–2025
    #5,708
    in 2025
  • Norway
    1880–2018
    #471
    in 2018
  • Canada
    1991–2024
    #3,231
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1995–2013
    #754
    in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Norway, 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. SSB, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Amer by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#4,403
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 26
Best rank ever
#1,963
1997
Peak year
2003
50 that year
First recorded
1927
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
1,438
Count in 2025
23

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#8,810
1987
Peak year
1987
7 that year
First recorded
1986
Last recorded
1987
All-time count
12
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Amer

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

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Sibling names for Amer

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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