Amyr
- Gender
- Boy
- Say it
- ah-MEER
- Origin
- Arabic
- US rank, 2025
- #5,606 for boys
Amyr is a boys' name of Arabic origin, meaning “prince, commander”. In 2025 it ranked 5,606th for boys in the US (16 babies).
What does Amyr mean?
Arabic: spelling of Amir
“prince, commander”
A spelling of Amir, the Arabic title for a commander or prince, which gave English the word emir.
Is Amyr a girl's or a boy's name?
Amyr is a boys' name. In 2025, it was given to 16 boys in the US. Too few girls were given it to be listed.
How popular is Amyr in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- #5,606among boys
- Babies in 2025
- 16about 1 in 110,000 boys
- Five-year trend
- Steadydown 7% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 boys
In 2025, 16 boys in the US were named Amyr, making it the 5,606th most popular name for boys. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 3,200th. Its busiest year was 2020, with 35 boys. It first appears in the records in 2001.
2025 had fewer boys named Amyr than any year since 2019.
Half of all the boys named Amyr in the US since 1880 were born between 2012 and 2021, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 65 boys in the US were given Amyr or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #1,889, up from #5,606 for this spelling alone.
Amyr in the US, year by year
| Year | Boys | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 16 | #5,606 |
| 2024 | 20 | #4,886 |
| 2023 | 27 | #3,999 |
| 2022 | 18 | #5,211 |
| 2021 | 26 | #4,007 |
| 2020 | 35 | #3,200 |
| 2019 | 13 | #6,401 |
| 2018 | 20 | #4,735 |
| 2017 | 19 | #4,931 |
| 2016 | 18 | #5,120 |
| 2015 | 9 | #8,035 |
| 2014 | 12 | #6,627 |
| 2013 | 10 | #7,532 |
| 2012 | 10 | #7,553 |
| 2011 | 7 | #9,593 |
| 2010 | 7 | #9,686 |
| 2009 | 12 | #6,798 |
| 2008 | 6 | #11,030 |
| 2007 | 6 | #10,915 |
| 2006 | 7 | #9,579 |
| 2005 | 5 | #11,464 |
| 2004 | 11 | #6,514 |
| 2003 | 8 | #7,824 |
| 2002 | 6 | #9,385 |
| 2001 | 5 | #10,548 |
Names like Amyr
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Zahir Ahmir Amir Hamza Zayd Zamir Zayan Ammar Abdullah Musa Nasir Muhammad
Other spellings of Amyr
Names related to Amyr
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, “Amyr: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/amyr, updated 20 October 2026.