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Amirah

#490 in 2025Girls' name

Princess, through Amira

Amirah has been given to 10,863 babies in the U.S. since 1976. In 2025 it ranked #490 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2024, with 678 recorded.

Babies named Amirah, 2025

1 in 5,500

Amirah over time, 1880–2025

Girls
020040060080018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Amirah: meaning, origin, and history

Princess, through Amira

Arabic

What Amirah means

Amirah belongs to the name family reached through Amirah → Amira. Its meaning is “princess”.

Origin, language, and formation

Amirah is used in English and Indonesian. Its origins include Arabic.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Amira.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 10,863 girls were recorded with the name Amirah between 1976 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 678 in 2024; its best national rank was #458 in 2023.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #546 in 2020 to #490 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #670 in 2015 to #490 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 Amirah?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 5,500
603 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 2,670
0.04% of girls
Rank, 2025
#490
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
3,812 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Amirah 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 1002%
School of 5009%

Put another way: gather 3,812 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Amirah. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Amirahs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Amirah was born before 2015 — so the typical Amirah is around 10 today.

Median birth year
2015
About 10 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
36.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
88.7%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
10,863
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 36.6% of all recorded uses (3,977).

Is Amirah 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
−26
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+56
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+180
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.41×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
88.9%
Peak was 2024 (678)
Years since peak
1
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
13.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#458
2023

Spellings of Amirah

Amirah is not the most common spelling — Aliyah is, with 11.3% against Amirah'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 Amirah is used

Across 2016–2025, Amirah was most concentrated in Maryland — about 1 in 1,408 girls, against 1 in 2,675 across all states with data. It was least common in New Mexico (1 in 11,111).

971 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Maryland1 in 1,408
  2. 2New York1 in 1,754
  3. 3South Carolina1 in 1,818
  4. 4Florida1 in 1,887
  5. 5Georgia1 in 2,000
  6. 6Virginia1 in 2,000
  7. 7North Carolina1 in 2,083
  8. 8Minnesota1 in 2,222

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.

Geographically, Amirah is somewhat regional — more concentrated than 21% of the names used widely enough to compare. See the most regional names

Amirah around the world

Where Amirah 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
    #246
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    1996–2025
    #387
    in 2025
  • Northern Ireland
    2015–2023
    #391
    in 2023
  • Ireland
    2010–2025
    #718
    in 2025
  • France
    2004–2025
    #2,389
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1996–2024
    #419
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1989–2013
    #536
    in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS, NISRA 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 Amirah

People whose public names include Amirah, 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.

Amirah by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#490
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 56
Best rank ever
#458
2023
Peak year
2024
678 that year
First recorded
1976
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
10,863
Count in 2025
603

Names similar to Amirah

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

AmirrahAmiyahAminahAmiyaAmiliaAmiyrahAminaFarrahAmiahAmiraAmiaAmieAminataAmityAmishaAmilyaFarahAmiAmiriAmarahDevorahTarahAmilaAmilah

Names with a curve like Amirah

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

HadassahSaigeLeylaArmaniMaryamAlianaAyaCharliZahraIvannaLorelaiAzariah

Sibling names for Amirah

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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