Amire
- Gender
- Boy
- Say it
- a-MEER
- Origin
- Arabic
- US rank, 2025
- #3,582 for boys
Amire is a boys' name of Arabic origin, meaning “prince, commander”. In 2025 it ranked 3,582nd for boys in the US (31 babies).
What does Amire mean?
Arabic: spelling of Amir
“prince, commander”
Amir is the Arabic title for a commander or prince, the source of the English word emir.
Is Amire a girl's or a boy's name?
Amire is a boys' name. In 2025, it was given to 5 girls and 31 boys in the US.
How popular is Amire in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 3,582nd among boys
- Babies in 2025
- 31 about 1 in 55,000 boys
- Five-year trend
- Steady up 3% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 boys
In 2025, 31 boys in the US were named Amire, making it the 3,582nd most popular name for boys. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 2,758th. Its busiest year was 2012, with 46 boys. It first appears in the records in 1990. 5 girls were also named Amire in 2025 (14,937th for girls).
Half of all the boys named Amire in the US since 1880 were born between 2008 and 2020, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 3,635 boys in the US were given Amire or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #107, up from #3,582 for this spelling alone.
In 2025, 14% of the babies named Amire in the US were girls.
Amire in the US, year by year
| Year | Boys | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 31 | #3,582 |
| 2024 | 41 | #3,000 |
| 2023 | 31 | #3,627 |
| 2022 | 39 | #3,098 |
| 2021 | 35 | #3,295 |
| 2020 | 44 | #2,758 |
| 2019 | 30 | #3,633 |
| 2018 | 26 | #3,989 |
| 2017 | 38 | #3,070 |
| 2016 | 30 | #3,595 |
| 2015 | 35 | #3,230 |
| 2014 | 40 | #2,883 |
| 2013 | 38 | #2,953 |
| 2012 | 46 | #2,631 |
| 2011 | 31 | #3,433 |
| 2010 | 24 | #4,098 |
| 2009 | 34 | #3,272 |
| 2008 | 37 | #3,101 |
| 2007 | 29 | #3,589 |
| 2006 | 25 | #3,886 |
| 2005 | 27 | #3,524 |
| 2004 | 31 | #3,154 |
| 2003 | 20 | #4,109 |
| 2002 | 13 | #5,388 |
| 2001 | 6 | #9,236 |
| 2000 | 18 | #4,198 |
| 1999 | 9 | #6,524 |
| 1998 | 12 | #5,153 |
| 1997 | 0 | – |
| 1996 | 9 | #5,975 |
| 1995 | 0 | – |
| 1994 | 0 | – |
| 1993 | 0 | – |
| 1992 | 0 | – |
| 1991 | 0 | – |
| 1990 | 6 | #7,171 |
Names like Amire
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Kobe, Hamza, Zaire, Zahir, Zyaire, Ahmir, Zayd, Nasir, Arham, Abdullah, Emir, Ahmad
Other spellings of Amire
Names related to Amire
More Arabic names
Muhammad, Layla, Mohammed, Lyla, Mohammad, Zara, Aaliyah, Amira, Fatima, Ali, Yahya, Zayn, Aisha, Omar, Zahra, Kairo
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, “Amire: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/amire, updated 20 October 2026.