Amira

given name · Arabic · Latin script

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

Amira is a given name, most frequently recorded in Egypt, where it is the 40th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Arabic and Spanish, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Arabic amir 'chief, commander, prince'; 'princess'.

rarermore common
  • EGEgypt1 in 467◐
  • TNTunisia1 in 484
  • SYSyria1 in 1.7K

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

≈66K ●

across 10 countries

6 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
295 ●

220K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 1.6K ◐

Kazakhstan

Spellings & scripts●

AmaraLatin · Portuguese●255K records
อมราThai · Thai●11K records
ᲐმირაGeorgian · Georgian●109 records
АмираCyrillic · Tajik●30 records
ΑμίραGreek · Greek●1 records
아미라Hangul · Korean●1 records

10 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Amara in BR Brazil, ES Spain, AR Argentina and 1 more, อมรา in TH Thailand, Ameera in IN India and Амира in KZ Kazakhstan.

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●

Arabic amir 'chief, commander, prince'; 'princess'

Sources 1

  • Diccionario etimológico de nombres propios

Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

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

Where Amira is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
EG Egypt#4084,03425K rec.——Amira137
TH Thailand#58331,88918K rec.—#791,001อมรา86
IN India—21,21113K rec.—1.5KAmeera46
SY Syria#18618,88520K rec.——Amira22
MY Malaysia#26716,46213K rec.—2Amira54
US United States—16,40946K rec.1 in 20K16KAmira295
BR Brazil—12,58115K rec.1 in 17K17KAmara75
KZ Kazakhstan—12,176△101 rec.1 in 1.6K12KАмира10
FR France—9,880△4 rec.1 in 6.9K9.9K—2
TN Tunisia#228,2485K rec.—1.4KAmira68
ES Spain—7,643△3K rec.1 in 6.5K7.6KAmara70
MA Morocco#2557,2596.7K rec.—listedAmira59

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

Languages●

  • Arabic125K27%
  • Spanish79K17%
  • French65K14%
  • English48K10%
  • Malay22K5%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Arabic124,75527%
Spanish79,08117%
French65,09014%
English47,64510%
Malay21,5565%

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◐

Amira is also recorded as 9 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Spanish given name98K records spelled Amira167 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Argentina, Spain, Brazil, Mexico

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese, Italian

    Also written Amíra, Amirá, Ámira, Àmira, Amirà

  • French given name79K records spelled Amira96 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Spain, Belgium, United States

    Languages: French, Catalan

    Also written Amirà, Amîra, Amïra, Amirã, Àmirà

  • Malay given name46K records spelled Amira27 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Malaysia, Indonesia, India, Philippines

    Languages: Malay, Indonesian

    Also written 'Amira, Amira', Amïra, Ãmïrå, Ämira

  • Hindi given name16K records spelled Amira13 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, Malaysia, United States, Pakistan

    Languages: Hindi, Urdu

    Also written Amīra, Ämïrä, Àmira, Ẳḿirẩ, Ämira

  • Russian given name11K records spelled Amira71 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Kazakhstan, Russia, Türkiye, Kyrgyzstan

    Languages: Russian, Kazakh, Uzbek

    Also written Амира, Аміра, Амират, Ameera, Amirat

  • Hungarian given name6.5K records spelled Amira5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Hungary, Finland, Slovenia, Estonia

    Languages: Hungarian, Finnish, Estonian

    Also written Amirà, Åmìrä

  • a separate given name4.9K records spelled Amira5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, United States, Ethiopia, Tunisia

    Also written Amirà, Āmira, Amīra, Āmīra

  • Polish given name2.6K records spelled Amira12 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Poland, United States, Netherlands

    Also written Àmïřã, Åmïrå, Âmîřã, Ãmîra, Åmïřa

  • Hebrew given name1.4K records spelled Amira11 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Israel, United States, Iraq, Syria

    Also written אמירה, עמירה, עאמירה, Ameera, Ameerah

43 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●

Amira 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 English, Arabic name meaning 'princess' or '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, A female given name from Arabic, masculine equivalent Amir

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

  • príncipe; prince

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

  • The beloved one

    as a nameThe book of African names

  • In Swedish, Amira är en femininform till → Amir, med betydelsen ’prinsessa’.

    as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon

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●

02505007501K192019401960198020002020

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Amira in INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024), Ecuador, 1904–2024
Yearrecords
19041
19071
19101
19112
19121
19145
19163
19172
19182
19191
19201
19211
19225
19232
19242
19253
19263
19272
19282
19294
19303
19312
19323
19332
19346
19354
19363
19373
19384
19394
19403
19413
19423
19432
19448
19454
19462
19476
194811
19496
19505
19519
19527
19533
19545
195510
19566
19572
19587
19596
19605
19617
19625
19637
19649
19657
19665
19675
19687
19697
19704
197112
19728
197310
19746
19759
19763
19779
19789
197911
19802
198110
19826
19834
19843
19857
19863
19874
19886
19893
19904
19913
19925
19939
199410
19953
19965
19976
19986
199910
200010
200113
20029
200316
200415
200519
200623
200719
200830
200919
201023
201124
201222
201331
201429
201542
201672
201774
2018111
2019113
202070
202176
202282
2023389
2024972

EC INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024) — 115 years between 1904–2024. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

19401960198020002020Amira Dotan, b. 1947Amira Hass, b. 1956Amira Ghazalla, b. 1960Amira El Fadil, b. 1967Amira Casar, b. 1971Amira Mohamed Ali, b. 1980Amira al Hayb, b. 1985Ameera al-Taweel, b. 1987Amira El Sayed, b. 1991Amira Willighagen, b. 2004

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 111 sources across 58 countries.

Official registers attesting Amira
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex202016K#1,796
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024)20249.9K#101
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—7.6K#663
ES SpainINE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—5.4K#432
EC EcuadorINEC — civil registry names20242.7K#512
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—2.6K#908
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—2.4K#962
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)20252.2K—
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017)—1.9K#1,406
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)20201.9K—
TN TunisiaINS Tunisia — Les prénoms des nouveau-nés les plus populaires (2022)19901.4K#8
EC EcuadorINEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024)2024972—

Reference works 5

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • 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 · 1,195 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Amira?
We estimate roughly 66 thousand people bear Amira (counting its spellings and scripts) across 10 countries in our records.
In which country does Amira have the most bearers?
Amira is most frequently recorded in Egypt, where it is most often spelled amira.
How common is Amira compared with other names?
In Egypt, Amira is the 40th most common given name of 72,792 given names recorded there.
Is Amira a male or female name?
Amira 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 Amira mean?
Recorded meaning: Arabic amir 'chief, commander, prince'; 'princess'
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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, “Amira” — the 40th most common given name in Egypt. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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