Ameira
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- a-MEER-a
- Origin
- Arabic
- UK rank, 2025
- #5,990 for girls
- US rank, 2025
- #6,837 for girls
Ameira is a girls' name of Arabic origin, meaning “princess, commander”. In 2025 it ranked 5,990th for girls in the UK (3 babies) and 6,837th for girls in the US (16 babies).
What does Ameira mean?
Arabic: spelling variant of Amira
“princess, commander”
Variant of Amira, the feminine of Arabic Amir 'prince, commander'.
Is Ameira a girl's or a boy's name?
Ameira is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 3 girls in the UK and 16 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Ameira in the UK?
- Rank in 2025
- 5,990th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 3 about 1 in 93,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Steady up 5% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 3 girls in the UK were named Ameira, making it the 5,990th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 3,630th. Its busiest year was 2023, with 14 girls.
2025 had the fewest girls named Ameira since it first appeared, in 2006.
Half of all the girls named Ameira in the UK since 1996 were born between 2011 and 2021, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 794 girls in the UK were given Ameira or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #73, up from #5,990 for this spelling alone.
Among girls in 2025, it was 5,925th in England and Wales.
Ameira in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 3 | #5,990 |
| 2024 | 4 | #4,907 |
| 2023 | 14 | #2,070 |
| 2022 | 12 | #2,277 |
| 2021 | 4 | #4,864 |
| 2020 | 6 | #3,630 |
| 2019 | 6 | #3,738 |
| 2018 | 8 | #3,068 |
| 2017 | 5 | #4,250 |
| 2016 | 9 | #2,893 |
| 2015 | 4 | #4,951 |
| 2014 | 7 | #3,321 |
| 2013 | 6 | #3,719 |
| 2012 | 10 | #2,666 |
| 2011 | 10 | #2,582 |
| 2010 | 7 | #3,308 |
| 2009 | 9 | #2,695 |
| 2008 | 4 | #4,742 |
| 2007 | 5 | #3,858 |
| 2006 | 7 | #2,940 |
How popular is Ameira in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 6,837th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 16 about 1 in 100,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Steady up 13% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 16 girls in the US were named Ameira, making it the 6,837th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 6,625th. Its busiest year was 2023, with 23 girls. It first appears in the records in 2000.
Half of all the girls named Ameira in the US since 1880 were born between 2010 and 2021, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 3,109 girls in the US were given Ameira or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #102, up from #6,837 for this spelling alone.
Ameira in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 16 | #6,837 |
| 2024 | 14 | #7,590 |
| 2023 | 23 | #5,386 |
| 2022 | 21 | #5,790 |
| 2021 | 10 | #9,557 |
| 2020 | 17 | #6,625 |
| 2019 | 18 | #6,410 |
| 2018 | 12 | #8,612 |
| 2017 | 13 | #8,295 |
| 2016 | 9 | #10,855 |
| 2015 | 10 | #10,143 |
| 2014 | 13 | #8,480 |
| 2013 | 10 | #10,230 |
| 2012 | 10 | #10,424 |
| 2011 | 18 | #6,852 |
| 2010 | 10 | #10,446 |
| 2009 | 15 | #8,054 |
| 2008 | 16 | #7,738 |
| 2007 | 9 | #11,626 |
| 2006 | 5 | #17,163 |
| 2005 | 9 | #10,915 |
| 2004 | 6 | #14,172 |
| 2003 | 6 | #13,837 |
| 2002 | 0 | – |
| 2001 | 0 | – |
| 2000 | 6 | #13,147 |
Names like Ameira
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Safa, Abeeha, Hafsa, Aaliyah, Hiba, Khadija, Ayah, Ayra, Nusaybah, Zainab, Rahma, Rumaysa
Other spellings of Ameira
Amira, Amirah, Ameera, Ameerah, Amiira, Amera, Amerah, Amirra, Amirrah
Names related to Ameira
More Arabic names
Muhammad, Layla, Mohammed, Lyla, Mohammad, Zara, Amir, Fatima, Ali, Yahya, Zayn, Aisha, Omar, Zahra, Hamza, Kairo
Sources
Figures from Baby names in England and Wales (Office for National Statistics), Babies' first names (National Records of Scotland), Baby names (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency) and 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, “Ameira: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/ameira, updated 20 October 2026.