Ameir
- Gender
- Boy
- Say it
- ah-MEER
- Origin
- Arabic
- US rank, 2025
- #3,180 for boys
Ameir is a boys' name of Arabic origin, meaning “prince, commander”. In 2025 it ranked 3,180th for boys in the US (37 babies).
What does Ameir mean?
Arabic: spelling of Amir
“prince, commander”
Spelling of Amir, the Arabic word for a prince or commander.
Is Ameir a girl's or a boy's name?
Ameir is a boys' name. In 2025, it was given to 37 boys in the US. Too few girls were given it to be listed.
How popular is Ameir in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 3,180th among boys
- Babies in 2025
- 37 about 1 in 46,000 boys
- Five-year trend
- Steady down 24% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 boys
In 2025, 37 boys in the US were named Ameir, making it the 3,180th most popular name for boys. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 2,346th. Its busiest year was 2020, with 57 boys. It first appears in the records in 1997.
Half of all the boys named Ameir in the US since 1880 were born between 2010 and 2020, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 65 boys in the US were given Ameir or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #1,889, up from #3,180 for this spelling alone.
Ameir in the US, year by year
| Year | Boys | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 37 | #3,180 |
| 2024 | 26 | #4,069 |
| 2023 | 39 | #3,115 |
| 2022 | 34 | #3,410 |
| 2021 | 40 | #3,020 |
| 2020 | 57 | #2,346 |
| 2019 | 48 | #2,655 |
| 2018 | 29 | #3,704 |
| 2017 | 55 | #2,344 |
| 2016 | 40 | #2,934 |
| 2015 | 48 | #2,564 |
| 2014 | 43 | #2,752 |
| 2013 | 41 | #2,802 |
| 2012 | 43 | #2,771 |
| 2011 | 35 | #3,163 |
| 2010 | 29 | #3,632 |
| 2009 | 32 | #3,397 |
| 2008 | 34 | #3,284 |
| 2007 | 16 | #5,431 |
| 2006 | 26 | #3,780 |
| 2005 | 10 | #7,089 |
| 2004 | 18 | #4,597 |
| 2003 | 11 | #6,251 |
| 2002 | 13 | #5,388 |
| 2001 | 10 | #6,438 |
| 2000 | 8 | #7,409 |
| 1999 | 6 | #8,697 |
| 1998 | 9 | #6,308 |
| 1997 | 6 | #8,104 |
Names like Ameir
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Zahir, Ahmir, Amir, Hamza, Zayd, Zamir, Abdullah, Muhammad, Ahmad, Musa, Ammar, Nasir
Other spellings of Ameir
Names related to Ameir
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, “Ameir: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/ameir, updated 20 October 2026.