Almir

Spellings & scripts●

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

Attested across 10 languages in the etymology graph.

Languages●

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Almir is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• Russian given name7.8K records spelled Almir29 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Russia, Croatia, Kazakhstan, United States

  Languages: Russian, Croatian, Macedonian

  Also written Альмир, Алмир, Al'Mir, Альмір, Алмір

• French given name2.0K records spelled Almir3 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in France, Spain, Belgium, United States

  Languages: French, Catalan

  Also written Ãlmįr

• Albanian given name1.8K records spelled Almir3 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Albania, United States, Italy, Kosovo

  Also written Älmir, Ãlmir

• Norwegian Bokmål given name1.1K records spelled Almir6 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Norway, Denmark, Sweden, Iceland

  Languages: Norwegian Bokmål, Danish, Swedish

  Also written Al-Mir

• Arabic given name607 records spelled Almir4 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Bosnia & Herzegovina, United Arab Emirates, Russia

  Also written Al-Mir, Al-Mīr

37 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Almir is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

• In otk, overwhelming desire, lust

  as a word·Clauson, An Etymological Dictionary of Pre-Thirteenth-Century Turkish (1972)

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Over time●

XK ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search) — 58 years between 1968–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

• Almir Guinetob. 1946BRBrazilian sambista (1946-2017)
• Almir Saterb. 1956BRBrazilian singer, composer and violist
• Almir de Souza Fragab. 1969BRBrazilian association football player
• Almir Turkovićb. 1970BABosnian footballer (born 1970)
• Almir Kurtb. 1971BABosnia and Herzegovina Actor
• Almir Moraes Andradeb. 1973BRBrazilian association football player
• Almir Sulejmanovićb. 1978SISlovenian footballer
• Almir Lopes de Lunab. 1982BRfootballer
• Almir dos Santosb. 1993BRBrazilian track and field athlete
• Almir LimajXKactor

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence●

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 289 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Almir?

We estimate roughly 59 thousand people bear Almir (counting its spellings and scripts) across 10 countries in our records.

In which country does Almir have the most bearers?

We estimate about 55 thousand people bear Almir in Brazil, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled almir.

How common is Almir compared with other names?

In Brazil, Almir is the 451st most common given name of 536,280 given names recorded there.

Is Almir a male or female name?

Almir is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.

What does the name Almir mean?

Recorded meaning: Namnet Almirs betydelse är inte helt säker, men det kan vara en variant av det a rabiska → Amir, och ha sitt ursprung i den bestämda formen Al-Amir.