Emira

given name · Turkish · Latin script

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

Emira is a given name, most frequently recorded in Syria, where it is the 92nd most common given name. It appears chiefly in Turkish and Arabic, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Variant of Amira.

rarermore common
  • SYSyria1 in 1K
  • TRTürkiye1 in 43K
  • USUnited States1 in 580K

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

≈3.0K

across 12 countries

3

recorded for this name

Sources
87

50K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 2.6K

North Macedonia

Spellings & scripts

EmiraLatin · Turkish23K records
ЭмираCyrillic · Russian1.1K records
ᲔმირაGeorgian · Georgian6 records

Locally spelled Эмира in RU Russia, KZ Kazakhstan, 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

Variant of Amira

Sources 2

Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world

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

Where Emira is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
SY Syria#9232,09832K rec.Emira4
TR Türkiye12,47813K rec.Emira22
RU Russia868381 rec.#2,062Эмира70
MK North Macedonia8175 rec.1 in 2.6K8173
VE Venezuela8140 rec.814Emira1
US United States5741.8K rec.1 in 580K574Emira87
DE Germany562486 rec.1Emira51
IQ Iraq445454 rec.Emira3
NO Norway43317 rec.420Emira8
MY Malaysia394349 rec.Emira15
AT Austria337114 rec.59Emira27
SE Sweden30979 rec.1 in 33K309Emira11

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

Languages

  • Turkish23K34%
  • Arabic18K26%
  • Spanish6.6K10%
  • English3.6K5%
  • Croatian2.1K3%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Turkish23,30034%
Arabic17,79126%
Spanish6,60210%
English3,5545%
Croatian2,1333%

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

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

  • Spanish given name9.4K records spelled Emira7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Venezuela, Brazil, Peru, Argentina

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese, Italian

    Also written Êmírà, Émira, Èmira

  • Croatian given name2.9K records spelled Emira8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Croatia, North Macedonia, United States, Bosnia & Herzegovina

    Languages: Croatian, Macedonian, Bosnian

    Also written Емира

  • French given name2.1K records spelled Emira8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Syria, Türkiye, Spain

    Languages: French, Catalan

    Also written Émira, Êmîrà, Ėmira, Emirà, Émirà

  • a separate given name149 records spelled Emira3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Kenya, India

    Also written Emíra, Ėmira

  • Polish given name128 records spelled Emira2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Poland, Syria

    Also written Ĕmiră

28 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

Emira is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Polish, genitive/accusative singular of emir

    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

02040608020002010202073 · 2024

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Emira in SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present), United States, 1996–2025
Yearrecords
19966
19975
19995
20005
20015
20026
20039
20047
20057
200617
20075
20088
20099
20107
20115
20128
201312
20148
201512
20168
201717
201823
201929
202025
202128
202235
202348
202473
202538

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)29 years between 1996–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name

1700180019002000Emira Marceau, b. 1753Emira Rodríguez, b. 1929Emira Abbes, b. 1996

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 56 sources across 36 countries.

Official registers attesting Emira
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
VE Venezuelaasosab — SAIME ID-card names (1896–1996)814#1,837
XK KosovoASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search)649#972
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020574#18,671
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)420#2,834
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)309#3,856
SI Sloveniastat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank)275#852
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names2025272#426
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)2020270
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names2024268#422
HR CroatiaDZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form)2021264#1,021
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names2023260#423
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names2022260#414

Reference works 3

  • 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 · 296 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Emira?
We estimate roughly 3.0 thousand people bear Emira (counting its spellings and scripts) across 12 countries in our records.
In which country does Emira have the most bearers?
Emira is most frequently recorded in Syria, where it is most often spelled emira.
How common is Emira compared with other names?
In Syria, Emira is the 92nd most common given name of 109,868 given names recorded there.
Is Emira a male or female name?
Emira 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 Emira mean?
Recorded meaning: Variant of 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, “Emira” — the 92nd most common given name in Syria. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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