Amra

Spellings & scripts●

Locally spelled Amira in EG Egypt, US United States, SY Syria and 18 more, Amara in BR Brazil, ES Spain, AR Argentina and 1 more, อมรา in TH Thailand and Ameera in IN India.

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●

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◐

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

• English surname9.2K records spelled Amra8 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Iran

  Also written Amra', Ámra, Ãmřà

• Macedonian given name4.2K records spelled Amra17 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in North Macedonia, Russia, Kazakhstan, Türkiye

  Languages: Macedonian, Russian, Uzbek

  Also written Амра

• French name1.9K records spelled Amra6 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in France

  Also written Amrà, Âmřå, Àḿrà, Amrá

• a separate name1.1K records spelled Amra7 spellings in the group

  Also written Ãmrã, Ãmrâ, Amrã

• a separate name617 records spelled Amra3 spellings in the group

  Also written Ãmra

44 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●

Amra 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 Swedish, Amra är ett arabiskt namn bildat till verbet amara ’leva länge’.

  as a name·Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon

• lasting power

  as a name·Whats in a name = Unaitwaje a Swahili book of names

• In Arabic, "any covering for the head, as a crown, tiara..."° ‘Amra bint Abdur Rahman: a sahaabia

  as a name·A Dictionary of Muslim Names

• In Indonesian, Spondias pinnata, one of the plants called common hog plum

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• In English, A hog plum (Spondias mombin.

  as a word·kaikki.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●

IN naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) — 71 years between 1918–2015. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

• Amra Hadžimuhamedovićb. 1961BABosnian historian
• Amra Đapob. 1976HRCroatian basketball player (born 1976)
• Amra Bergmanb. 1977ATAustrian painter
• Amra Silajdžićb. 1984USBosnian actress
• Amra Sadikovićb. 1989CHSwiss female tennis player
• Amra Pandžićb. 1989SISlovene handball player
• Mohamed Amrab. 1994FRFrench criminal and escapee
• Amra Bakšić ĆamoBAfilm producer from Bosnia and Herzegovina
• Amra HalebićBABosnian pop-folk singer
• Amra Mallassiactor

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 · 345 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Amra?

We estimate roughly 66 thousand people bear Amra (counting its spellings and scripts) across 10 countries in our records.

In which country does Amra have the most bearers?

Amra is most frequently recorded in Egypt, where it is most often spelled amira.

How common is Amra compared with other names?

In Egypt, Amra is the 40th most common given name of 72,792 given names recorded there.

What does the name Amra mean?

Recorded meaning: female name of Arabic origin; meaning varies by usage