Amiri

surname · Latin script

Meaning: commander, officer

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Amiri is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Afghanistan than in any other country, where it is the 57th most common surname.

rarermore common
  • AFAfghanistan≈1 in 141(inferred from the name graph)
  • TZTanzania≈1 in 1.5K
  • IRIran≈1 in 24K

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.

Afghanistan (inferred from the name graph)

≈260,000 people, est.

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
233 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 141 (inferred from the name graph)

Afghanistan, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

commander, officer

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Amiri 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.

Where Amiri is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
AF Afghanistan#57≈260,000 est.≈1 in 1413Amiri23
TZ Tanzania#380≈40,000 est.≈1 in 1.5K2Amiri23
IR Iran—≈3,500 est.≈1 in 24K—Amiri77
DE Germany—≈2,000 est.≈1 in 40K—Amiri122
FR France—≈1,700 est.≈1 in 40K149—2
SE Sweden—1,6361 in 6.2K1.6KAmiri33
NO Norway—8741 in 6.3K874—15
FI Finland—4171 in 13K417—9

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: Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); INEC Special Gazette 2021 — 2020 parliamentary election results; Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000). 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Amiri is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate name5 spellings in the group

    Also written Âmiri, Amīrī, Amirí, Āmirī

  • Pashto surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Afghanistan, United States, Sweden, Iran

    Also written Amīrī

  • Hindi surname15 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Tanzania, India, Iran, United States

    Languages: Hindi, Urdu, Bangla

    Also written আমিরী, আমিরি, Åmiri, Ämîrï, Åmïrï

  • Swedish surname7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Tanzania

    Languages: Swedish, Danish, Norwegian

    Also written Âmîrį

  • Indonesian surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Indonesia, Netherlands, Tanzania, Iran

    Also written Amïri, Amīrį

63 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Amiri is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • prince

    as a nameWhats in a name = Unaitwaje a Swahili book of names

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)

19601970198019902000Hossein-Ali Amiri, b. 1966Mohammad Sadegh Amiri, b. 1976Shahram Amiri, b. 1977Mike Amiri, b. 1977Sarah Amiri, b. 1987Vahid Amiri, b. 1988Norlla Amiri, b. 1991Nadiem Amiri, b. 1996

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 55 sources across 31 countries.

Official registers attesting Amiri
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—1.6K#622
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—874#1,362
NO NorwaySSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891)2025437—
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—417#4,049
FI FinlandDVV — Sukunimitilasto (Finnish surnames register)—196—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1991149—
AF AfghanistanWikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names—3#16

Reference works 5

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 Amiri mean, and where does it come from?
commander, officer Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
In which country does Amiri have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 259 thousand people named Amiri in Afghanistan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled amiri.
How common is the name Amiri?
In Sweden, the national register counted 1,636 people named Amiri, about 1 in 6.2 thousand residents.
How common is Amiri compared with other names?
In Afghanistan, Amiri is the 57th most common surname of 11,723 surnames recorded there.

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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, “Amiri” — the 57th most common surname in Afghanistan. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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