Amir
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Amir is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Pakistan than in any other country, where it is the 7th most common given name. Recorded meaning: ‘Prince’, ‘ruler’. Feminine form: Amira.
- PKPakistan≈1 in 570(inferred from the name graph)
- AEUnited Arab Emirates≈1 in 777
- BDBangladesh≈1 in 1K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Amir itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Pakistan (inferred from the name graph)
- #297 (measured from records)
- 10 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 463 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 570 (inferred from the name graph)
≈410,000 people, est.
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Pakistan, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
12 other spellings are counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Amin in EG Egypt, BD Bangladesh, Emir in TR Türkiye, Ameen in PK Pakistan and Амир in KZ Kazakhstan.
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)
‘Prince’, ‘ruler’. Feminine form: Amira. ‘Amir 3 ‘Prosperous’.
Sources 1
- A concise dictionary of first names
Attested across 20 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Amir 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PK Pakistan | #7 | ≈410,000 est. | ≈1 in 570 | 3 | Ameen | 143 |
| US United States | #924 | 322,911as Amber | 1 in 1K | 322K | Amir | 463 |
| BD Bangladesh | #13 | ≈160,000 est. | ≈1 in 1K | listed | Amin | 145 |
| TR Türkiye | #164 | ≈110,000 est. | ≈1 in 759 | 2K | Emir | 140 |
| EG Egypt | #104 | ≈78,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.3K | listed | Amin | 170 |
| DZ Algeria | #13 | ≈60,000 est. | ≈1 in 715 | listed | Amar | 79 |
| KZ Kazakhstan | #90 | ≈32,000 est. | ≈1 in 592 | 37K | Амир | 46 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | #12 | ≈13,000 est. | ≈1 in 777 | — | Amir | 138 |
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: TÜİK NIP — newborn names; Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) — Form-33 List of Contesting Candidates, 2018 General Election; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Bureau of National Statistics — birth registrations. 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)
Amir 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.
prince as in Emir of Kano, Alhaji Abdullahi Bayero (1929-1953). His other title is Mai Tattabaru.
as a nameAfrican Muslim Names
príncipe; prince
as a nameDicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…
In Swedish, Amir är bildat till arabiskt amīr ’härskare, prins’. Det är ursprungligen ett binamn använt om Ali ibn Abi Talib, Muhammeds kusin och svärson, en centralgestalt inom shia-grenen av islam.
as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
In German, männl. Vom. arabischen Ursprungs (arab. amir »Befehlshaber, Prinz«).
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
Bom during happy, prosperous times
as a nameA Handbook of African Names
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)
- Abu Ubaidah ibn al-Jarrahb. 581SAnot in their usual namecompanion of Muhammad and military leader (583–639)
- Amir Khusraub. 1253INIndian poet, writer, singer and scholar (1253–1325)
- Amir-Abbas Hoveydab. 1919IRIranian politician (1919-1979)
- Amir Pnuelib. 1941ILIsraeli computer scientist (1941–2009) researching temporal logic, model checking, and concurrent systems
- Amir Mokrib. 1956IRcinematographer
- Amir Talaib. 1977USAmerican actor
- Amir Arisonb. 1978USAmerican actor
- Hannibal Buressb. 1983USnot in their usual nameAmerican comedian and writer
- Amirb. 1984FRFrench-Israeli singer-songwriter (born 1984)
- Amir Abrashib. 1990CHAlbanian-Swiss 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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 128 sources across 62 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 38K | #1,076 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 3.3K | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 504 | #1,076 |
Reference works 10
- 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)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
- Ismlar.com — Uzbek given-name dictionary (meanings, gender, origin)
- 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
- What does the name Amir mean?
- Recorded meaning: ‘Prince’, ‘ruler’. Feminine form: Amira.
- Is Amir a male or female name?
- Amir 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.
- Where does the name Amir come from?
- ‘Prince’, ‘ruler’. Feminine form: Amira. ‘Amir 3 ‘Prosperous’. Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names.
- In which country does Amir have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 410 thousand people named Amir in Pakistan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ameen.
- What are other forms of the name Amir?
- In the etymology graph, Emir and Amira are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How common is the name Amir?
- In the United States, the national register counted 322,911 people named Amber in 2020, about 1 in 1.0 thousand residents.
- How common is Amir compared with other names?
- In Pakistan, Amir is the 7th most common given name of 77,659 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Amir?
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Query this name via API
curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/amirThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. Rate-limited for casual use; a free API key gives 1,000 requests a day, and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Amir” — the 7th most common given name in Pakistan. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.