Amar
given name · Latin script
Meaning: mason; place list spans Iberia, Mediterranean, North Africa, Israel, Panama
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/əˈmɑɹ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Amar 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.
- PKPakistan≈1 in 570as Amir(inferred from the name graph)
- KZKazakhstan≈1 in 592as Амир
- DZAlgeria≈1 in 715as Amin
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 Amar 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 6.2K (inferred from the name graph)
≈410,000 named Amir, est.
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
France, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
13 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, Emir in TR Türkiye and Ameen in PK Pakistan.
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)
mason; place list spans Iberia, Mediterranean, North Africa, Israel, Panama
Sources 1
- Dicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…
Attested across 8 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Amar 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 |
| FR France | — | ≈11,000 est. | ≈1 in 6.2K | 19K | Amari | 204 |
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; INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024). 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)
Amar 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 Italian, variante regional de Aimar
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
Long life.
as a nameThe African book of names
In Italian, Variante di Aimar
as a nameDizionario dei cognomi italiani
In English, v. AYMER
as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames
In Portuguese, to love
as a wordA Frequency Dictionary of Portuguese
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)
- Guru Amar Dasb. 1479INThe third Guru of Sikhism
- Amar Singh Ib. 1559INMaharana of Mewar from 1597 to 1620
- Agdanbuugyn Amarb. 1886MNformer president of Mongolia (1886-1941)
- Amar Boseb. 1929USIndian American academic entrepreneur (1929–2013)
- Amar Mohileb. 1950INIndian film score composer
- Amar Singhb. 1956INIndian politician (1956–2020)
- Amar Osimb. 1967BABosnian footballer (born 1967)
- Amar Sifodilb. 1975DZAlgerian film director
- Amar Benikhlefb. 1982DZAlgerian judoka
- Amar Dedićb. 2002BABosnian 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 112 sources across 58 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024) | 2024 | 6.8K | #687 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 5.6K | #3,441 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 453 | #3,441 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 132 | — |
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)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
- 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 Amar mean, and where does it come from?
- mason; place list spans Iberia, Mediterranean, North Africa, Israel, Panama Recorded by Dicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,….
- How do you pronounce Amar?
- A machine transcription gives /əˈmɑɹ/ (IPA) for Hindi.
- How common is the name Amar?
- 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 Amar compared with other names?
- In Pakistan, Amar is the 7th most common given name of 77,659 given names recorded there.
- Is Amar a male or female name?
- Amar 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 Amar?
- In the etymology graph, Ammar and 'Ammar are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Amar have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 410 thousand people named Amir in Pakistan, more than in any other country we hold.
What do you want to know about Amar?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/amarThe 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, “Amar” — the 7th most common given name in Pakistan. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.