Amer
given name · Arabic · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Amer is a given name, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. It appears chiefly in Arabic and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Amer är ett arabiskt namn som betyder ’man med lång livslängd; riklig’.
- USUnited States1 in 1K◐
- SYSyria1 in 1.3K
- JOJordan1 in 2.3K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈326K ●
- 5 ●
- Sources
- 268 ●
- 1 in 1.0K ◐
across 10 countries
recorded for this name
186K records
Official registry-verified
United States
Spellings & scripts●
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Amber in PL Poland, CZ Czechia.
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●
Amer är ett arabiskt namn som betyder ’man med lång livslängd; riklig’. Amer är bildat till samma rot som → Ammar.
Sources 1
- Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
Attested across 13 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 322,278△ | 50K rec. | 1 in 1K | 322K | Amer | 268 |
| SY Syria | #130 | 25,923 | 33K rec. | — | — | Amer | 58 |
| IN India | — | 25,129 | 11K rec. | — | 62 | Amer | 71 |
| TR Türkiye | — | 9,493 | 11K rec. | — | — | Amer | 40 |
| IQ Iraq | — | 8,654 | 8.9K rec. | — | — | Amer | 53 |
| EG Egypt | #617 | 7,777 | 14K rec. | — | — | Amer | 139 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 4,910 | 5.1K rec. | — | 48 | Amer | 97 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | #284 | 3,899 | 2.9K rec. | — | — | Amer | 122 |
| PH Philippines | — | 3,542 | 4.3K rec. | — | — | Amer | 30 |
| DE Germany | — | 3,189 | 4K rec. | — | listed | Amer | 108 |
| MY Malaysia | — | 2,774 | 3.8K rec. | — | — | Amer | 45 |
| JO Jordan | #257 | 2,696 | 3K rec. | — | — | Amer | 109 |
Roughly 322K people in United States bear this name (about 1 in 1K). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Arabic67K38%
- English28K16%
- Hindi7.6K4%
- Spanish7.2K4%
- Turkish5.6K3%
Show as table
| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Arabic | 67,026 | 38% |
| English | 28,070 | 16% |
| Hindi | 7,640 | 4% |
| Spanish | 7,221 | 4% |
| Turkish | 5,624 | 3% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
Amer is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Indonesian, syllabic abbreviation of anggur merah (“red wine”)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In frp, alternative form of amâr (“bitter”)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latin, first-person singular present passive subjunctive of amō, "I may/might be loved"
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In osx, alternative form of amsla
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Dutch, A hydronym; particularly
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●
Show as table
| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1927 | 5 |
| 1968 | 5 |
| 1971 | 5 |
| 1974 | 7 |
| 1976 | 8 |
| 1977 | 11 |
| 1978 | 10 |
| 1979 | 9 |
| 1980 | 19 |
| 1981 | 10 |
| 1982 | 9 |
| 1983 | 22 |
| 1984 | 16 |
| 1985 | 15 |
| 1986 | 19 |
| 1987 | 19 |
| 1988 | 25 |
| 1989 | 22 |
| 1990 | 30 |
| 1991 | 30 |
| 1992 | 35 |
| 1993 | 39 |
| 1994 | 31 |
| 1995 | 37 |
| 1996 | 35 |
| 1997 | 46 |
| 1998 | 48 |
| 1999 | 46 |
| 2000 | 39 |
| 2001 | 46 |
| 2002 | 43 |
| 2003 | 50 |
| 2004 | 30 |
| 2005 | 31 |
| 2006 | 42 |
| 2007 | 34 |
| 2008 | 28 |
| 2009 | 40 |
| 2010 | 34 |
| 2011 | 32 |
| 2012 | 21 |
| 2013 | 35 |
| 2014 | 25 |
| 2015 | 40 |
| 2016 | 29 |
| 2017 | 36 |
| 2018 | 22 |
| 2019 | 29 |
| 2020 | 22 |
| 2021 | 22 |
| 2022 | 25 |
| 2023 | 27 |
| 2024 | 20 |
| 2025 | 23 |
US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 54 years between 1927–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- 'Amr ibn al-'Asb. 570SAnot in their usual nameArab military commander and governor (c.573–664)
- Sibawayhb. 760IRnot in their usual namePersian grammarian from Basra (c.760–796)
- Al-Jahizb. 775IQnot in their usual nameArabic writer (776–869)
- Amr Moussab. 1936EGnot in their usual namepolitician from Egypt
- Amr Diabb. 1961EGnot in their usual nameEgyptian singer, composer and actor
- Amr Abdel Gelilb. 1963EGnot in their usual nameEgyptian actor
- Amr Khaledb. 1967EGnot in their usual nameEgyptian television preacher
- Amr Wakedb. 1973EGnot in their usual nameEgyptian actor
- Amr Zakib. 1983EGnot in their usual nameEgyptian footballer
- Amr Wardab. 1993EGnot in their usual nameEgyptian association football player
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 83 sources across 39 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 3.2K | #5,196 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 2.3K | #12,611 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 1.9K | #1,083 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.5K | #18,601 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.2K | #20,359 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 1.2K | #3,779 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 1.2K | #3,776 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 1.2K | — |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 738 | #1,970 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 306 | #6,520 |
| ES Spain | INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 270 | #3,308 |
| SI Slovenia | stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank) | — | 251 | #893 |
Reference works 7
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname 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 · 612 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Amer?
- We estimate roughly 326 thousand people bear Amer (counting its spellings and scripts) across 10 countries in our records.
- In which country does Amer have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 322 thousand people bear Amer in the United States, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled amer.
- How common is Amer compared with other names?
- In Bosnia & Herzegovina, Amer is the 104th most common given name of 3,870 given names recorded there.
- Is Amer a male or female name?
- Amer is a female 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 Amer mean?
- Recorded meaning: Amer är ett arabiskt namn som betyder ’man med lång livslängd; riklig’.
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About this data
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, “Amer” — the 104th most common given name in Bosnia & Herzegovina. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.