Amira
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in English: Arabic name meaning 'princess' or 'commander'
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Amira is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Egypt than in any other country, where it is the 34th most common given name.
- TNTunisia≈1 in 590(inferred from the name graph)
- EGEgypt≈1 in 627
- DZAlgeria≈1 in 1.1K
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 Amira 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.
- Egypt (inferred from the name graph)
- 6 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 334 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 590 (inferred from the name graph)
≈170,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Tunisia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
12 other spellings are counted as the same name:
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)
Arabic amir 'chief, commander, prince'; 'princess'
Sources 1
- Diccionario etimológico de nombres propios
Attested across 8 languages in the etymology graph.
How Amira is read(measured from records)
Amira is one spelling over 5 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.
- Arabic43%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Amira in Arabic.
- English11%
Arabic name meaning 'princess' or 'commander'
as a nameBaby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…
A female given name from Arabic, masculine equivalent Amir
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Spanish10%
Arabic amir 'chief, commander, prince'; 'princess'
as a nameDiccionario etimológico de nombres propios
- French10%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Amira in French.
- Malay6.1%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Amira in Malay.
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)
Amira 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| EG Egypt | #34 | ≈170,000 est. | ≈1 in 627 | — | Amira | 146 |
| DZ Algeria | #61 | ≈40,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.1K | listed | Amira | 66 |
| NG Nigeria | — | ≈25,000 est. | ≈1 in 8.5K | listed | Amira | 41 |
| TN Tunisia | #34 | ≈20,000 est. | ≈1 in 590 | 1.4K | Amira | 73 |
| MA Morocco | #295 | ≈18,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.9K | listed | Amira | 62 |
| US United States | — | 16,499 | 1 in 20K | 16K | Amira | 334 |
| SY Syria | #196 | ≈7,800 est. | ≈1 in 2.5K | — | Amira | 24 |
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: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; INS Tunisia — Les prénoms des nouveau-nés les plus populaires (2022). 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)
Amira 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.
príncipe; prince
as a nameDicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…
The beloved one
as a nameThe book of African names
In Swedish, Amira är en femininform till → Amir, med betydelsen ’prinsessa’.
as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
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)
- Amira Dotanb. 1947ILIsraeli politician
- Amira Hassb. 1956ILIsraeli journalist
- Amira Ghazallab. 1960IEIrish actress
- Amira El Fadilb. 1967SDSudanese government official
- Amira Casarb. 1971GBFrench actress
- Amira Mohamed Alib. 1980DEGerman politician (born 1980)
- Amira al Haybb. 1985ILthe first Bedouin-Israeli female soldier
- Ameera al-Taweelb. 1987SAnot in their usual nameSaudi Arabian philanthropist
- Amira El Sayedb. 1991ATEgyptian-Austrian actress and author based in Berlin, Germany
- Amira Willighagenb. 2004NLDutch-South African singer
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 115 sources across 58 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 16K | #1,796 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 2.2K | — |
| TN Tunisia | INS Tunisia — Les prénoms des nouveau-nés les plus populaires (2022) | 1990 | 1.4K | #8 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 90 | #1,796 |
Reference works 7
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- 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)
- 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
- Is Amira a male or female name?
- Amira 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.
- Where does the name Amira come from?
- Arabic amir 'chief, commander, prince'; 'princess' Recorded by Diccionario etimológico de nombres propios.
- What does the name Amira mean?
- In English, Arabic name meaning 'princess' or 'commander'
- In which country does Amira have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 166 thousand people named Amira in Egypt, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled amira.
- How common is the name Amira?
- In the United States, the national register counted 16,499 people named Amira in 2020, about 1 in 20 thousand residents.
- How common is Amira compared with other names?
- In Egypt, Amira is the 34th most common given name of 107,792 given names recorded there.
- What are other forms of the name Amira?
- In the etymology graph, Amir and Amirah are forms of the same name in other languages.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/amiraThe 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, “Amira” — the 34th most common given name in Egypt. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.