Emir

given name · Turkish · Latin script

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

Emir is a given name, most frequently recorded in India, where it is the 57th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Turkish and Spanish, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: command.

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●

command

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 9 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

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

Where Emir 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●

  • Turkish527K63%
  • Spanish128K15%
  • Portuguese36K4%
  • French26K3%
  • English22K3%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Turkish527,33863%
Spanish128,34915%
Portuguese36,1784%
French26,3243%
English22,3653%

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◐

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

  • Spanish given name177K records spelled Emir24 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Argentina, Brazil, Mexico, Venezuela

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese, Romanian

    Also written OrPinGtoN, Emír, E'Mir, Emìr, Ëmir

  • English given name57K records spelled Emir27 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Germany, United States, Austria, Netherlands

    Languages: English, German, Western Frisian

    Also written E'Mir, Emîr, Ęmîr, Èmîř, Ëmïr

  • Croatian given name20K records spelled Emir38 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Croatia, Ukraine, North Macedonia, United States

    Languages: Croatian, Ukrainian, Russian

    Also written Емір, Емир, Еміра, Emír, Эмір

  • Arabic given name9.2K records spelled Emir4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Türkiye, Syria, Malaysia, Saudi Arabia

    Languages: Arabic, Amharic

    Also written Émir, E'Mir

  • Indonesian given name6.0K records spelled Emir6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Malaysia, Indonesia, Türkiye, United States

    Languages: Indonesian, Malay

    Also written 'Emir, Èmîr, Ěmïr

  • Chinese given name4.5K records spelled Emir2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Türkiye, United States, Malaysia, Bosnia & Herzegovina

    Also written E'Mir

  • Hungarian given name4.1K records spelled Emir5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Slovenia, Finland, Türkiye, United States

    Languages: Hungarian, Finnish, Estonian

    Also written Émir, Êmîr

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●

Emir 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 Turkish, 1. Buyruk, komut. 2. Bir kavim, aşiret veya ülkenin başı. 3. Prens, şehzade.

    as a wordTDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)

  • In Swedish, Emir är en turkisk form av det arabiska namnet → Amir ’prins’.

    as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon

  • Jefe, comandante

    as a name25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado

  • In Polish, emir (title of a prince, commander, or other leader or ruler in an Islamic nation)

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

  • In English, A prince, commander or other leader or ruler in an Islamic nation.

    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●

05010015020019401960198020002020152 · 2017

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Emir in SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021), Chile, 1924–2021
Yearrecords
19241
19251
19292
19323
19341
19351
19361
19372
19381
19393
19403
19411
19422
19431
19443
19452
19462
19472
19482
19504
19512
19524
19535
19548
19553
19562
19572
195811
19594
19608
19615
19629
19639
19648
196512
19663
19679
19687
19692
19707
19712
19726
197310
19746
19757
19765
19777
19782
19794
19804
19813
19828
19838
19843
19855
19867
19873
19885
19894
19903
19913
19925
199313
19947
19955
19963
19976
19984
19994
20005
20015
20029
20037
20046
20056
20065
200711
20088
20097
201013
201112
20129
201311
201415
201515
201624
2017152
201890
201967
202071
202172

CL SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021) — 91 years between 1924–2021. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

1940196019802000Emir Kusturica, b. 1954Emir Mutapčić, b. 1960Emir Hadžihafizbegović, b. 1961Emir Granov, b. 1976Emir Spahić, b. 1980Emir Baighazin, b. 1984Emir Preldžić, b. 1987Emir Bajrami, b. 1988Emir Kujović, b. 1988

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 94 sources across 49 countries.

Official registers attesting Emir
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024)20244.4K#280
EC EcuadorINEC — civil registry names20243.8K#327
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex20203.6K#4,896
BR BrazilIBGE — Nomes (census name API)—2.2K#5,624
TR TürkiyeTÜİK NIP — newborn names20252K#30
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)20222K—
XK KosovoASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search)—1.9K#415
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—1.8K#1,104
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—1.7K#1,187
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—1.7K#5,195
AT AustriaStatistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024)20241.5K#112
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)20201.4K—

Reference works 4

  • 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 · 972 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

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

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