Amer
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Amer är ett arabiskt namn som betyder ’man med lång livslängd; riklig’
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/amə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Amer is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Jordan than in any other country.
- JOJordan≈1 in 460(inferred from the name graph)
- SYSyria≈1 in 1.1K
- SASaudi Arabia≈1 in 2.1K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Jordan (inferred from the name graph)
- 5 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 290 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 460 (inferred from the name graph)
≈24,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Jordan, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Amer är ett arabiskt namn som betyder ’man med lång livslängd; riklig’. Amer är bildat till samma rot som → Ammar.
Sources 1
- Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Amer counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| JO Jordan | #189 | ≈24,000 est. | ≈1 in 460 | — | Amer | 117 |
| EG Egypt | #510 | ≈21,000 est. | ≈1 in 5K | — | Amer | 155 |
| PK Pakistan | — | ≈20,000 est. | ≈1 in 12K | — | Amer | 80 |
| SY Syria | #116 | ≈18,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.1K | — | Amer | 62 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | #281 | ≈16,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.1K | — | Amer | 130 |
| BA Bosnia & Herzegovina | #102 | ≈5,700 est. | ≈1 in 673 | 25 | Amer | 28 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | #165 | ≈4,600 est. | ≈1 in 2.2K | — | Amer | 129 |
| US United States | — | 3,349 | 1 in 99K | 3.2K | Amer | 290 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; the ba-fzs-newborn-names register. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Amer 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 Indonesian, syllabic abbreviation of anggur merah (“red wine”)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In frp, alternative form of amâr (“bitter”)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latin, first-person singular present passive subjunctive of amō, "I may/might be loved"
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In osx, alternative form of amsla
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Dutch, A hydronym; particularly
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- 'Amr ibn al-'Asb. 570SAnot in their usual nameArab military commander and governor (c.573–664)
- Sibawayhb. 760IRnot in their usual namePersian grammarian from Basra (c.760–796)
- Al-Jahizb. 775IQnot in their usual nameArabic writer (776–869)
- Amr Moussab. 1936EGnot in their usual namepolitician from Egypt
- Amr Diabb. 1961EGnot in their usual nameEgyptian singer, composer and actor
- Amr Abdel Gelilb. 1963EGnot in their usual nameEgyptian actor
- Amr Khaledb. 1967EGnot in their usual nameEgyptian television preacher
- Amr Wakedb. 1973EGnot in their usual nameEgyptian actor
- Amr Zakib. 1983EGnot in their usual nameEgyptian footballer
- Amr Wardab. 1993EGnot in their usual nameEgyptian 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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 85 sources across 39 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 3.2K | #5,196 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 146 | #5,196 |
| BA Bosnia & Herzegovina | FZS — 100 najčešćih imena (Top-100 Newborn Names, Federation of BiH) | 2025 | 25 | #86 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 23 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1987 | 7 | — |
Reference works 9
- 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)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Amer?
- A machine transcription gives /amə/ (IPA) for Arabic.
- Is Amer a male or female name?
- Amer 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 Amer mean?
- Recorded meaning: Amer är ett arabiskt namn som betyder ’man med lång livslängd; riklig’.
- In which country does Amer have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 24 thousand people named Amer in Jordan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled amer.
- How common is the name Amer?
- In the United States, the national register counted 3,349 people named Amer in 2020, about 1 in 99 thousand residents.
- How common is Amer compared with other names?
- In Jordan, Amer is the 189th most common given name of 8,439 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/amerThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
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, “Amer” — the 189th most common given name in Jordan. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.