Amirah
given name · Latin script
Meaning: عامرہ rich; royal; flourishing;
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/amirah/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Amirah is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Indonesia than in any other country. In Malaysia it is the 73rd most common given name.
- MYMalaysia≈1 in 2.8K(inferred from the name graph)
- IDIndonesia≈1 in 21K
- USUnited States1 in 57K
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.
- Indonesia (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 242 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 2.8K (inferred from the name graph)
≈13,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Malaysia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
عامرہ rich; royal; flourishing;
Sources 1
- Muslim baby names (our 2,000 meaningful and beautiful names for boys and girls) English-Urdu with Roman
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Amirah 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈13,000 est. | ≈1 in 21K | — | Amirah | 98 |
| MY Malaysia | #73 | ≈12,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.8K | 4 | Amirah | 73 |
| US United States | — | 5,848 | 1 in 57K | 5.8K | Amirah | 242 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | — | ≈3,700 est. | ≈1 in 9.3K | listed | Amirah | 88 |
| NG Nigeria | — | ≈1,700 est. | ≈1 in 125K | — | Amirah | 26 |
| SG Singapore | #796 | ≈280 est. | ≈1 in 22K | — | Amirah | 37 |
| KW Kuwait | — | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 28K | — | Amirah | 22 |
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: This page lists the top 100 names in Malaysia for boys and girls, published by Students of the World.; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; the muslim-baby-names-2000 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)
Amirah is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
To command,
as a nameDictionary of Islamic Names
Chieftess,
as a nameDictionary of Islamic Names
In Yoruba, Princess, Queen and woman leader
as a wordYorubaName Dictionary (CC0, tone-marked Yoruba names with meaning/etymology)
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)
- Amirah Inglisb. 1926AUAustralian communist and author
- Amirah Ladasanb. 1974PHFilipino activist
- Amirah Vannb. 1980USAmerican actress
- Amirah Adarab. 1992HUHungarian pornographic actress
- Amirah Jb. 2007USactress
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 45 sources across 31 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 5.8K | #3,535 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 603 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 11 | #3,535 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | Muslim Baby Names (Nishāt, 2000) | — | — | — |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Amirah mean, and where does it come from?
- عامرہ rich; royal; flourishing; Recorded by Muslim baby names (our 2,000 meaningful and beautiful names for boys and girls) English-Urdu with Roman.
- In which country does Amirah have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 13 thousand people named Amirah in Indonesia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled amirah.
- Is Amirah a male or female name?
- Amirah 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 are other forms of the name Amirah?
- In the etymology graph, Amira and Emira are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Amirah?
- A machine transcription gives /amirah/ (IPA) for Malay.
- How common is the name Amirah?
- In the United States, the national register counted 5,848 people named Amirah in 2020, about 1 in 57 thousand residents.
- How common is Amirah compared with other names?
- In Malaysia, Amirah is the 73rd most common given name of 388,685 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Amirah?
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/amirahThe 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, “Amirah” — the 73rd most common given name in Malaysia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.