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Emir

#551 in 2025Boys' name

Variant of Amir

Emir has been given to 5,620 babies in the U.S. since 1970. In 2025 it ranked #551 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 546 recorded.

Babies named Emir, 2025

1 in 6,070

Emir over time, 1880–2025

BoysGirls
020040060018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Emir: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Amir

Arabic

What Emir means

Emir is a variant of Amir.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Emir → Amir. The family’s meaning is “commander, prince”, recorded in English with the source elements ʔamīr.

Origin, language, and formation

Emir is used in Serbo-Croatian and Turkish. Its origins include Arabic.

Emir comes through Ottoman Turkish امیر and Arabic أَمِيرْ.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Amir.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Turkish, Emir is pronounced [emiɾ].

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 5,615 boys were recorded with the name Emir between 1970 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 546 in 2025; its best national rank was #551 in 2025.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #650 in 2020 to #551 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #1,241 in 2015 to #551 in 2025.

In the United States, 5 girls were recorded with the name Emir between 2023 and 2023. Its highest annual count was 5 in 2023; its best national rank was #15,898 in 2023.

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 Emir?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 6,070
546 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 3,130
0.03% of boys
Rank, 2025
#551
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
4,210 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Emir 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 1002%
School of 5008%

Put another way: gather 4,210 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Emir. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Emirs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Emir was born before 2020 — so the typical Emir is around 5 today.

Median birth year
2020
About 5 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
50.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
93.3%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
5,615
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2020s — 50.1% of all recorded uses (2,813).

Is Emir 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
+7
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+99
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+690
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
3.71×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
100.0%
Peak was 2025 (546)
Years since peak
Peaking now
At its all-time high
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
21.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#551
2025

Spellings of Emir

Emir is not the most common spelling — Eric is, with 50.9% against Emir's 0.32%.

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 Emir is used

Across 2016–2025, Emir was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in 2,778 boys, against 1 in 4,586 across all states with data. It was least common in Oklahoma (1 in 33,333).

336 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New York1 in 2,778
  2. 2Maryland1 in 2,941
  3. 3New Jersey1 in 2,941
  4. 4Illinois1 in 3,226
  5. 5Georgia1 in 3,333
  6. 6Florida1 in 3,448
  7. 7California1 in 3,571
  8. 8Arizona1 in 4,167

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, Emir is somewhat regional — more concentrated than 47% of the names used widely enough to compare. See the most regional names

Emir around the world

Where Emir 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
    #517
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2012–2025
    #762
    in 2025
  • Ireland
    2016–2025
    #829
    in 2025
  • France
    1970–2025
    #241
    in 2025
  • Norway
    1880–2025
    #334
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1993–2024
    #1,071
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1974–2012
    #771
    in 2012

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Central Statistics Office, 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. CSO, SSB, 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 Emir

People whose public names include Emir, 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.

Emir in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Emir. Linked forms have their own page here.

AmirEmyr

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Emir by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#551
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 99
Best rank ever
#551
2025
Peak year
2025
546 that year
First recorded
1970
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
5,615
Count in 2025
546

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#15,898
2023
Peak year
2023
5 that year
First recorded
2023
Last recorded
2023
All-time count
5
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Emir

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

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Names with a curve like Emir

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

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Sibling names for Emir

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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