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Emira

#3,851 in 2025Girls' name

Variant of Amira

Emira has been given to 470 babies in the U.S. since 1996. In 2025 it ranked #3,851 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2024, with 73 recorded.

Babies named Emira, 2025

1 in 87,200

Emira over time, 1880–2025

Girls
02040608018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Emira: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Amira

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Emira means

Emira is a variant of Amira.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Emira → Amira. The family’s meaning is “princess”, recorded in English with the source elements ʔamīra.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Amira.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 470 girls were recorded with the name Emira between 1996 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 73 in 2024; its best national rank was #2,469 in 2024.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #5,059 in 2020 to #3,851 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #9,118 in 2015 to #3,851 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 Emira?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 87,200
38 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 42,300
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#3,851
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
60,472 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Emira 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 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 60,472 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Emira. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Emiras were born

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

Median birth year
2020
About 5 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
52.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
95.5%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
470
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2020s — 52.6% of all recorded uses (247).

Is Emira 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
−1,382
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+1,208
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+5,267
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
3.17×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
52.1%
Peak was 2024 (73)
Years since peak
1
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
46.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,469
2024

Spellings of Emira

Emira is not the most common spelling — Emily is, with 27.8% against Emira's 0.01%.

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 Emira is used

Across 1910–2025, Emira was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 861,998 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2Florida1 in —
  3. 3Illinois1 in —
  4. 4Ohio1 in —
  5. 5Virginia1 in —

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

Emira around the world

Where Emira 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
    2007–2025
    #1,892
    in 2025
  • France
    1905–2025
    #3,572
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2021–2024
    #3,027
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1996–1996
    #712
    in 1996

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Emira by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#3,851
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 1,208
Best rank ever
#2,469
2024
Peak year
2024
73 that year
First recorded
1996
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
470
Count in 2025
38

Names similar to Emira

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

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Sibling names for Emira

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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