Emir
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Emir 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: command.
- TRTürkiye≈1 in 759(inferred from the name graph)
- PKPakistan≈1 in 570as Amir
- KZKazakhstan≈1 in 592as Амир
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 Emir 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 759 (inferred from the name graph)
≈410,000 named Amir, est.
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Türkiye, 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 Amir in US United States, AE United Arab Emirates, Amin in EG Egypt, BD Bangladesh, 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)
command
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 9 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Emir 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)
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Emir Kusturicab. 1954BASerbian and French film director, screenwriter, writer, actor and musician
- Emir Mutapčićb. 1960BABosnian basketball player
- Emir Hadžihafizbegovićb. 1961BABosnian-Herzegovinian actor
- Emir Granovb. 1976BABosnia and Herzegovina footballer
- Emir Spahićb. 1980BABosnian association football player
- Emir Baighazinb. 1984KZKazakhstani film director
- Emir Preldžićb. 1987BATurkish basketball player (born 1987)
- Emir Bajramib. 1988SESwedish footballer
- Emir Kujovićb. 1988MESwedish footballer
- Emir KocerTRTurkish machine learning scientist
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 97 sources across 49 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 3.6K | #4,896 |
| TR Türkiye | TÜİK NIP — newborn names | 2025 | 2K | #30 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 546 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 71 | #4,896 |
Reference works 6
- 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)
- 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
- Тахиров, Речник на турските лични имена в България
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 Emir mean, and where does it come from?
- command Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- 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 are other forms of the name Emir?
- In the etymology graph, Amir and Emeer are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Emir have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 410 thousand people named Amir in Pakistan, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Emir?
- 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 Emir compared with other names?
- In Pakistan, Emir is the 7th most common given name of 77,659 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Emir?
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Query this name via API
curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/emirThe 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, “Emir” — the 7th most common given name in Pakistan. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.