Amir

given name · Hindi · Latin script

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

Amir is a given name, most frequently recorded in India, where it is the 57th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Hindi and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: ‘Prince’, ‘ruler’. Feminine form: Amira.

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 Amar in IN India, SY Syria, DZ Algeria, Amin in BD Bangladesh, EG Egypt, MA Morocco, Амир in KZ Kazakhstan, RU Russia, KG Kyrgyzstan and Aman in BR Brazil, EC Ecuador.

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’, ‘ruler’. Feminine form: Amira. ‘Amir 3 ‘Prosperous’.

Sources 1

  • A concise dictionary of first names

Attested across 21 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

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

Where Amir 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●

  • Hindi348K19%
  • English298K16%
  • 172K9%
  • Bangla131K7%
  • French108K6%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Hindi347,98919%
English298,41416%
171,6099%
Bangla131,1207%
French108,2416%

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◐

Amir is also recorded as 7 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • French given name252K records spelled Amir73 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Brazil, Argentina, Spain

    Languages: French, Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Amír, Àmir, Ämïr, Amïr, Amîr

  • a separate given name187K records spelled Amir10 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, United States, Iran, Pakistan

    Also written Amīr, Ämir, Āmīr, Amír, Āmir

  • Hebrew given name32K records spelled Amir27 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Israel, United States, Iran, India

    Also written אמיר, עמיר, Emir, Aamir, Ameer

  • Pashto given name18K records spelled Amir3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Iran, India, United States, Pakistan

    Also written Amīr, Ămir

  • Finnish given name5.7K records spelled Amir10 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Finland, India, Estonia, United States

    Languages: Finnish, Estonian

    Also written Ãmir, Āmīr, Amìr, Ãmîr, Ámïř

  • Khmer given name4.5K records spelled Amir6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, Iran, United States, Malaysia

    Also written Amîr, Âmîr, Ämîr, Àmîr, Åmîr

  • Hungarian given name3.2K records spelled Amir18 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Slovenia, Hungary, India, United States

    Also written Âmîr, Ámìŕ, Ámir, Ämïř, Ámïr

63 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●

Amir 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.

  • prince as in Emir of Kano, Alhaji Abdullahi Bayero (1929-1953). His other title is Mai Tattabaru.

    as a nameAfrican Muslim Names

  • príncipe; prince

    as a nameDicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…

  • In Swedish, Amir är bildat till arabiskt amīr ’härskare, prins’. Det är ursprungligen ett binamn använt om Ali ibn Abi Talib, Muhammeds kusin och svärson, en centralgestalt inom shia-grenen av islam.

    as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon

  • In German, männl. Vom. arabischen Ursprungs (arab. amir »Befehlshaber, Prinz«).

    as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen

  • Bom during happy, prosperous times

    as a nameA Handbook of African Names

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●

02K4K6K1900192019401960198020005.5K · 1993

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Amir in naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls), India, 1899–2015
Yearrecords
18995
19172
19181
19191
19203
19223
192311
19244
19253
19262
19272
19283
19296
19304
19314
19324
19334
19349
19355
19367
19375
19385
193910
194011
194111
19429
194317
194418
19459
194622
194712
194816
194920
195022
195128
195225
195321
195429
195525
195630
195722
195841
195937
196037
196139
196269
196357
196478
196567
196697
1967101
1968136
1969111
1970146
1971145
1972204
1973161
1974181
1975235
1976318
1977239
1978277
1979291
1980240
1981372
1982528
1983612
1984800
1985776
1986909
19871,333
19881,760
19892,381
19903,122
19914,018
19924,702
19935,454
19944,563
19954,224
19962,064
19972,024
19981,334
199974
20003
20012
20071
200825
20091
201014
20115
20121
20131
2014128
2015171

IN naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) — 94 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●

500100015002000Abu Ubaidah ibn al-Jarrah, b. 581Amir Khusrau, b. 1253Amir-Abbas Hoveyda, b. 1919Amir Pnueli, b. 1941Amir Mokri, b. 1956Amir Talai, b. 1977Amir Arison, b. 1978Hannibal Buress, b. 1983Amir, b. 1984Amir Abrashi, b. 1990
  • Abu Ubaidah ibn al-Jarrahb. 581SAnot in their usual namecompanion of Muhammad and military leader (583–639)
  • Amir Khusraub. 1253INIndian poet, writer, singer and scholar (1253–1325)
  • Amir-Abbas Hoveydab. 1919IRIranian politician (1919-1979)
  • Amir Pnuelib. 1941ILIsraeli computer scientist (1941–2009) researching temporal logic, model checking, and concurrent systems
  • Amir Mokrib. 1956IRcinematographer
  • Amir Talaib. 1977USAmerican actor
  • Amir Arisonb. 1978USAmerican actor
  • Hannibal Buressb. 1983USnot in their usual nameAmerican comedian and writer
  • Amirb. 1984FRFrench-Israeli singer-songwriter (born 1984)
  • Amir Abrashib. 1990CHAlbanian-Swiss 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 124 sources across 62 countries.

Official registers attesting Amir
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex202038K#1,076
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024)202419K#41
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—7.8K#652
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—6.9K#507
ES SpainINE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—5.7K#375
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—4.9K#653
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)20204.8K—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)20253.3K—
XK KosovoASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search)—2.9K#213
BR BrazilIBGE — Nomes (census name API)—2.5K#5,239
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 202020202.4K#12,570
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)20222.2K—

Reference works 8

  • 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)
  • jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)

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

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 1,256 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Amir?
We estimate roughly 444 thousand people bear Amir (counting its spellings and scripts) across 8 countries in our records.
In which country does Amir have the most bearers?
Amir is most frequently recorded in India, where it is most often spelled amar.
How common is Amir compared with other names?
In India, Amir is the 57th most common given name of 4,777,337 given names recorded there.
Is Amir a male or female name?
Amir 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 Amir mean?
Recorded meaning: ‘Prince’, ‘ruler’. Feminine form: Amira.
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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, “Amir” — the 57th most common given name in India. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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