Ameer

given name · Hindi · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Ameer is a given name, most frequently recorded in India, where it is the 57th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Hindi and Urdu, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: prince, commander, chief, lord, leader, master.

rarermore common
  • JOJordan1 in 30◐
  • BDBangladesh1 in 194
  • PKPakistan1 in 202

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈444K ●

across 8 countries

#370 ●

of 16M given names

10 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
395 ●

3.7M records

Official registry-verified

1 in 515 ◐

Kazakhstan

Spellings & scripts●

AmarLatin · Hindi●1.5M records
АмирCyrillic · Russian●220K records
অমরBengali · Bangla●4K records
ᲔმირGeorgian · Georgian●809 records
อามัลThai · Thai●149 records
아미르Hangul · Korean●2 records
ԱմիրArmenian · Armenian●1 records
අමරSinhala · Sinhala●0 records
అమరTelugu · Telugu●0 records
ΑμανGreek · Greek●0 records

12 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Amir in US United States, MY Malaysia, GB United Kingdom and 11 more, Amar in IN India, SY Syria, DZ Algeria, Amin in BD Bangladesh, EG Egypt, MA Morocco and Амир in KZ Kazakhstan, RU Russia, KG Kyrgyzstan.

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●

prince, commander, chief, lord, leader, master. Ameer-al-Mu’mineen (1:22! y+.1, Commander of the Faithful: a

Sources 1

  • A Dictionary of Muslim Names

Attested across 10 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Ameer is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
IN India#574,088,6191.6M rec.—2.1KAmar258
BD Bangladesh#801,376,98340K rec.—listedAmin137
TR Türkiye#159562,932608K rec.—2KEmir110
PK Pakistan#11470,07038K rec.—3Ameen123
US United States#943322,278493K rec.1 in 1K322KAmir395
RU Russia#197221,965123K rec.—#75Амир152
JO Jordan—214,7152.7K rec.——Amman60
MY Malaysia#35106,057102K rec.——Amir96
EG Egypt#12377,20039K rec.—listedAmin152
GB United Kingdom#49364,35948K rec.—48Amir162
IR Iran—49,09243K rec.——Amir119
SY Syria#6647,10964K rec.——Amar33

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • Hindi165K34%
  • Urdu127K26%
  • 92K19%
  • English28K6%
  • Arabic26K5%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Hindi164,91334%
Urdu127,10026%
92,11619%
English28,2156%
Arabic26,3325%

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◐

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

  • Indonesian given name4.6K records spelled Ameer7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Malaysia, India, Pakistan, Indonesia

    Languages: Indonesian, Malay

    Also written Ämëër, Ämêéř, Âmêêr, Ämeer, Ãmêêr

  • Turkish given name1.5K records spelled Ameer7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Türkiye, Iraq, United States, Pakistan

    Languages: Turkish, Azerbaijani, Uzbek

    Also written Ameér, Ãmëër, Ämëër

  • French given name1.4K records spelled Ameer12 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Spain, United States, India

    Languages: French, Catalan

    Also written Âmeèŕ, Ąmęëř, Améêŕ, Åmèéř, Âmẽèř

  • Malayalam given name1.1K records spelled Ameer20 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States

    Languages: Malayalam, Tamil

    Also written അമീർ, Amber, Amir, Amer, Ammar

  • Danish given name550 records spelled Ameer9 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Denmark, Norway, United States, India

    Languages: Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Swedish

    Also written Åmêêr, Ãmëēř, Âmêêř, Åmëër

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●

Ameer is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Arabic, chieftain, ruler, prince, commander, lord, leader, master

    as a nameA Dictionary of Muslim Names

  • In English, Arabic title/name meaning 'prince, commander'

    as a nameBaby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…

  • In English, Alternative form of emir.

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

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●

05001K1.5K2K1900192019401960198020001.6K · 1993

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Ameer in naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls), India, 1899–2015
Yearrecords
18992
19021
19071
19131
19141
19151
19164
19176
191812
19199
192016
19217
192210
192322
192417
192520
192619
192729
192831
192958
193044
193160
1932114
193371
1934146
193597
1936118
1937153
1938143
1939217
1940179
1941206
1942295
1943217
1944364
1945269
1946333
1947396
1948315
1949392
1950359
1951359
1952564
1953310
1954586
1955417
1956446
1957609
1958549
1959795
1960542
1961509
1962820
1963625
1964859
1965692
1966691
1967788
1968708
1969798
1970814
1971735
1972906
1973757
1974759
1975799
1976877
1977722
1978799
1979645
1980603
1981742
1982920
1983943
1984973
1985904
1986742
1987906
1988978
19891,105
19901,229
19911,443
19921,484
19931,647
19941,323
19951,152
1996586
1997534
1998301
199922
20001
20021
20071
2008105
20096
201048
201147
201217
201320
2014197
201564

IN naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) — 101 years between 1899–2015. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

19401960198020002020Ameer Makhoul, b. 1958Ameer Sachet, b. 1963Ameer Webb, b. 1989Iamsu!, b. 1989Ameer Abdullah, b. 1993Ameer Jackson, b. 1994Ameer Amri Zainuddin, b. 1998Ameer Idreis, b. 1999Ameer Kinani, b. 2001

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●

Attested in 58 sources across 30 countries.

Official registers attesting Ameer
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls—20K#628
IN IndiaIndia Names Dataset — Andhra Pradesh Electoral Rolls (Internet Archive)—9K#612
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex20204.9K#3,935
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls—1K#5,425
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—465#2,915
GY GuyanaGuyana — Official List of Electors July 20252025391#253
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020371#58,949
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010282#69,579
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)2020257—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)2025233—
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000223#79,394
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—183#9,656

Reference works 3

  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 417 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Ameer?
We estimate roughly 444 thousand people bear Ameer (counting its spellings and scripts) across 8 countries in our records.
In which country does Ameer have the most bearers?
Ameer is most frequently recorded in India, where it is most often spelled amar.
How common is Ameer compared with other names?
In India, Ameer is the 57th most common given name of 4,777,337 given names recorded there.
Is Ameer a male or female name?
Ameer 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 Ameer mean?
Recorded meaning: prince, commander, chief, lord, leader, master.
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Ameer” — the 57th most common given name in India. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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