Ahmir
- Gender
- Boy
- Origin
- Arabic
- US rank, 2025
- #1,231 for boys
Ahmir is a boys' name of Arabic origin. In 2025 it ranked 1,231st for boys in the US (163 babies).
What does Ahmir mean?
Arabic
A male given name from Arabic.
From Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Is Ahmir a girl's or a boy's name?
Ahmir is a boys' name. In 2025, it was given to 163 boys in the US. Too few girls were given it to be listed.
How popular is Ahmir in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- #1,231among boys
- Babies in 2025
- 163about 1 in 10,000 boys
- Five-year trend
- Steadydown 7% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 boys
In 2025, 163 boys in the US were named Ahmir, making it the 1,231st most popular name for boys. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 935th. Its busiest year was 2022, with 276 boys. It first appears in the records in 1991.
It has been given to fewer boys each year for the last 3 years. 2025 had fewer boys named Ahmir than any year since 2014.
Half of all the boys named Ahmir in the US since 1880 were born between 2011 and 2021, the years shaded on the chart below.
Ahmir in the US, year by year
| Year | Boys | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 163 | #1,231 |
| 2024 | 216 | #1,031 |
| 2023 | 237 | #952 |
| 2022 | 276 | #873 |
| 2021 | 230 | #968 |
| 2020 | 235 | #935 |
| 2019 | 213 | #991 |
| 2018 | 214 | #970 |
| 2017 | 195 | #1,029 |
| 2016 | 220 | #946 |
| 2015 | 189 | #1,049 |
| 2014 | 138 | #1,285 |
| 2013 | 145 | #1,233 |
| 2012 | 100 | #1,575 |
| 2011 | 102 | #1,544 |
| 2010 | 115 | #1,438 |
| 2009 | 108 | #1,528 |
| 2008 | 71 | #1,980 |
| 2007 | 101 | #1,552 |
| 2006 | 69 | #1,942 |
| 2005 | 59 | #2,077 |
| 2004 | 48 | #2,340 |
| 2003 | 52 | #2,124 |
| 2002 | 58 | #1,912 |
| 2001 | 52 | #2,023 |
| 2000 | 54 | #1,920 |
| 1999 | 38 | #2,344 |
| 1998 | 31 | #2,648 |
| 1997 | 18 | #3,733 |
| 1996 | 21 | #3,287 |
| 1995 | 12 | #4,785 |
| 1994 | 13 | #4,531 |
| 1993 | 5 | #8,693 |
| 1992 | 6 | #7,414 |
| 1991 | 10 | #5,088 |
Names like Ahmir
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Zahir Amir Zamir Hamza Zayd Nasir Abdullah Nazir Samir Muhammad Musa Ahmad
Names related to Ahmir
More Arabic names
Layla Mohammed Lyla Mohammad Zara Aaliyah Amira Fatima Ali Yahya Zayn Aisha Omar Zahra Kairo Safa
Sources
Figures from Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Ahmir: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/ahmir, updated 20 October 2026.