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Amr

#4,864 in 2025Boys' name

Life

Amr has been given to 976 babies in the U.S. since 1974. In 2025 it ranked #4,864 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2007, with 54 recorded.

Babies named Amr, 2025

1 in 166,000

Amr over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Amr: meaning, origin, and history

Life

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Amr means

Amr means “life”.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 976 boys were recorded with the name Amr between 1974 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 54 in 2007; its best national rank was #2,375 in 2007.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #4,544 in 2020 to #4,864 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #3,300 in 2015 to #4,864 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 Amr?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 166,000
20 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 85,400
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#4,864
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
114,896 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Amr 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 114,896 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Amr. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Amrs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Amr was born before 2007 — so the typical Amr is around 18 today.

Median birth year
2007
About 18 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
38.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
72.3%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
976
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 38.0% of all recorded uses (371).

Is Amr 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
+28
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−320
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−1,564
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.59×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
37.0%
Peak was 2007 (54)
Years since peak
18
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
20.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,375
2007

Where Amr is used

Across 1910–2025, Amr was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in 100,000 boys, against 1 in 293,581 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New York1 in 100,000
  2. 2California1 in —
  3. 3Michigan1 in —
  4. 4New Jersey1 in —
  5. 5Texas1 in —
  6. 6Virginia1 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. Amr has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Amr around the world

Where Amr 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
    #3,684
    in 2025
  • Ireland
    2008–2008
    #698
    in 2008
  • France
    1984–2024
    #3,900
    in 2024
  • Canada
    1992–2024
    #3,231
    in 2024

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Amr by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#4,864
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 320
Best rank ever
#2,375
2007
Peak year
2007
54 that year
First recorded
1974
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
976
Count in 2025
20

Names similar to Amr

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

AmritAmroAmromAmramAmriAmronAmranAmrenAmritpalAmrikAmrynAmruthAmrith

Sibling names for Amr

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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