Ameer
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in Arabic: prince, commander, chief, lord, leader, master. Ameer-al-Mu’mineen (1:22! y+.1, Commander of the Faithful: a
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Ameer 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 Ameer 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 named Amir, est.
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Pakistan, est., as Amir
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, 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)
prince, commander, chief, lord, leader, master. Ameer-al-Mu’mineen (1:22! y+.1, Commander of the Faithful: a
Sources 1
- A Dictionary of Muslim Names
Attested across 10 languages in the etymology graph.
How Ameer is read(measured from records)
Ameer is one spelling over 4 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Urdu36%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Ameer in Urdu.
- Hindi18%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Ameer in Hindi.
- Arabic9.3%
prince, commander, chief, lord, leader, master. Ameer-al-Mu’mineen (1:22! y+.1, Commander of the Faithful: a
as a nameA Dictionary of Muslim Names
chieftain, ruler, prince, commander, lord, leader, master
as a nameA Dictionary of Muslim Names
- English6.1%
Arabic title/name meaning 'prince, commander'
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Alternative form of emir.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Ameer 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Ameer Makhoulb. 1958ILPalestinian Christian citizen of Israel
- Ameer Sachetb. 1963SESwedish politician
- Ameer Webbb. 1989USAmerican sprinter
- Iamsu!b. 1989USnot in their usual nameAmerican rapper and record producer
- Ameer Abdullahb. 1993USAmerican football player (born 1993)
- Ameer Jacksonb. 1994USAmerican basketball player (born 1994)
- Ameer Amri Zainuddinb. 1998MYbadminton player
- Ameer Idreisb. 1999CACanadian writer
- Ameer Kinanib. 2001IQCanadian soccer player
- Ameer Imranactor
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 58 sources across 30 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 371 | #58,949 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 282 | #69,579 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 223 | #79,394 |
Reference works 3
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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 Ameer mean, and where does it come from?
- prince, commander, chief, lord, leader, master. Ameer-al-Mu’mineen (1:22! y+.1, Commander of the Faithful: a Recorded by A Dictionary of Muslim Names.
- Is Ameer a male or female name?
- Ameer 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.
- In which country does Ameer 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 Ameer?
- 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 Ameer compared with other names?
- In Pakistan, Ameer is the 7th most common given name of 77,659 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ameerThe 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, “Ameer” — the 7th most common given name in Pakistan. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.