Amir Forename
305th
Most Common
name in the World
Approximately 2,031,804 people bear this name
Most prevalent in:
Iran
Highest density in:
Iran
Amir Forename User-submission:
Amir (also spelled Ameer or Emir; Arabic: اَمير; Turkish: Emir; Persian: امير; Hebrew: אמיר); is a multinational and multilingual masculine name.
The name comes from the same root as the word 'immortal' (Emir).
Amir Forename Distribution
| Place | Gender | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Iran | 100% | 490,378 | 1:160 | 22 |
| Pakistan | 84% | 324,344 | 1:599 | 91 |
| India | 100% | 243,889 | 1:4,981 | 569 |
| Egypt | 100% | 160,168 | 1:574 | 107 |
| Indonesia | 100% | 128,817 | 1:2,003 | 189 |
| Sudan | 100% | 90,827 | 1:416 | 74 |
| Afghanistan | 88% | 86,240 | 1:378 | 45 |
| Bangladesh | 100% | 83,673 | 1:1,906 | 255 |
| Iraq | 100% | 82,493 | 1:424 | 90 |
| Uzbekistan | 99% | 55,934 | 1:550 | 117 |
| Russia | 100% | 33,281 | 1:4,334 | 256 |
| Malaysia | 98% | 29,731 | 1:1,024 | 82 |
| Tajikistan | 100% | 24,722 | 1:339 | 64 |
| United States | 100% | 19,081 | 1:19,000 | 1,592 |
| Kazakhstan | 98% | 16,041 | 1:1,106 | 258 |
| Nigeria | 100% | 13,186 | 1:13,466 | 1,604 |
| Bosnia and Herzegovina | 100% | 10,256 | 1:344 | 63 |
| Mozambique | - | 9,600 | 1:2,838 | 617 |
| Ethiopia | 100% | 8,785 | 1:11,105 | 1,619 |
| Algeria | 100% | 6,820 | 1:5,598 | 613 |
| England | 100% | 6,767 | 1:8,217 | 714 |
| Canada | 100% | 6,256 | 1:5,296 | 800 |
| Libya | - | 6,243 | 1:997 | 192 |
| Chad | 100% | 5,499 | 1:2,473 | 350 |
| Morocco | 100% | 4,941 | 1:6,952 | 640 |
| Somalia | - | 4,508 | 1:3,000 | 433 |
| Yemen | - | 4,315 | 1:6,094 | 556 |
| United Arab Emirates | - | 3,803 | 1:1,881 | 205 |
| Oman | 83% | 3,775 | 1:1,088 | 167 |
| Kenya | - | 3,763 | 1:12,306 | 1,463 |
| Tanzania | 100% | 3,456 | 1:15,274 | 1,710 |
| Saudi Arabia | - | 3,147 | 1:9,791 | 1,409 |
| Brazil | 100% | 3,077 | 1:69,625 | 4,416 |
| Philippines | 98% | 2,960 | 1:35,814 | 2,972 |
| Syria | - | 2,921 | 1:6,609 | 699 |
| South Sudan | 97% | 2,746 | 1:4,206 | 526 |
| Sweden | 100% | 2,684 | 1:3,673 | 465 |
| Azerbaijan | 100% | 2,618 | 1:3,683 | 686 |
| Spain | 100% | 2,558 | 1:18,190 | 1,107 |
| Comoros | - | 2,038 | 1:374 | 54 |
| Germany | 100% | 1,967 | 1:49,150 | 1,439 |
| Palestine | 92% | 1,875 | 1:2,427 | 455 |
| Bahrain | - | 1,865 | 1:723 | 118 |
| Lebanon | 78% | 1,851 | 1:3,040 | 529 |
| Thailand | 100% | 1,428 | 1:49,066 | 5,300 |
| France | 100% | 1,427 | 1:46,580 | 1,457 |
| Kosovo | - | 1,261 | 1:1,476 | 370 |
| Mexico | 97% | 1,222 | 1:101,591 | 2,576 |
| Poland | 100% | 1,131 | 1:33,623 | 1,028 |
| Netherlands | 100% | 1,066 | 1:15,856 | 1,662 |
| Australia | - | 1,033 | 1:13,221 | 1,101 |
| Djibouti | - | 1,000 | 1:916 | 193 |
| Jordan | 98% | 987 | 1:8,943 | 796 |
| Slovenia | 100% | 938 | 1:2,621 | 429 |
| Uganda | 97% | 883 | 1:46,384 | 2,840 |
| Tunisia | 100% | 827 | 1:819 | 171 |
| Turkmenistan | 100% | 782 | 1:6,999 | 458 |
| Austria | 100% | 753 | 1:11,307 | 670 |
| Sri Lanka | - | 715 | 1:29,090 | 3,562 |
| Somaliland | 100% | 668 | 1:5,242 | 496 |
| Denmark | - | 657 | 1:8,599 | 769 |
| Turkey | 100% | 627 | 1:124,086 | 3,542 |
| Norway | 100% | 523 | 1:9,813 | 871 |
| Kyrgyzstan | 100% | 513 | 1:11,644 | 1,651 |
| Croatia | 100% | 498 | 1:8,468 | 707 |
| Switzerland | 95% | 476 | 1:17,255 | 1,316 |
| Serbia | 100% | 468 | 1:15,269 | 1,100 |
| Colombia | 94% | 452 | 1:105,706 | 3,361 |
| Romania | 100% | 385 | 1:52,083 | 2,902 |
| North Macedonia | 100% | 364 | 1:5,744 | 959 |
| South Africa | 100% | 315 | 1:173,120 | 11,669 |
| Panama | 100% | 305 | 1:12,808 | 1,536 |
| Belgium | 100% | 266 | 1:43,196 | 2,276 |
| Maldives | 96% | 262 | 1:1,656 | 101 |
| Italy | 99% | 261 | 1:233,954 | 3,182 |
| Scotland | 100% | 243 | 1:22,018 | 1,019 |
| Greece | 100% | 234 | 1:46,729 | 1,677 |
| Belize | 100% | 202 | 1:1,754 | 394 |
| Venezuela | 100% | 183 | 1:165,038 | 6,428 |
| Brunei | 100% | 178 | 1:2,357 | 243 |
| Trinidad and Tobago | 100% | 171 | 1:7,962 | 1,245 |
| Malawi | 100% | 169 | 1:101,256 | 5,457 |
| Portugal | - | 166 | 1:62,716 | 2,006 |
| DR Congo | 94% | 157 | 1:470,240 | 16,785 |
| Albania | 100% | 153 | 1:19,912 | 2,546 |
| Singapore | 100% | 153 | 1:41,092 | 6,582 |
| Montenegro | 100% | 144 | 1:4,407 | 684 |
| Bolivia | 100% | 138 | 1:76,822 | 2,278 |
| New Zealand | - | 130 | 1:34,893 | 2,194 |
| Finland | 100% | 129 | 1:42,505 | 1,592 |
| Cambodia | 97% | 124 | 1:131,237 | 5,144 |
| Kuwait | - | 123 | 1:30,775 | 2,974 |
| Ecuador | - | 120 | 1:147,724 | 2,955 |
| Georgia | 99% | 119 | 1:31,416 | 1,850 |
| Nepal | - | 114 | 1:249,889 | 9,808 |
| Wales | 100% | 108 | 1:28,651 | 1,330 |
| China | - | 105 | 1:13,010,055 | 59,871 |
| Dominican Republic | - | 105 | 1:99,345 | 5,177 |
| Belarus | 93% | 103 | 1:92,062 | 976 |
| Uruguay | 100% | 98 | 1:34,976 | 1,488 |
| Ireland | 100% | 97 | 1:47,871 | 1,594 |
| Japan | - | 93 | 1:1,376,194 | 17,045 |
| Congo | 100% | 86 | 1:58,247 | 4,249 |
| Czechia | 100% | 85 | 1:125,367 | 1,274 |
| Peru | 93% | 82 | 1:387,701 | 7,627 |
| Cameroon | 100% | 79 | 1:273,551 | 10,579 |
| Guyana | 100% | 73 | 1:10,456 | 1,567 |
| Chile | 95% | 65 | 1:270,880 | 4,310 |
| Curaçao | 100% | 58 | 1:2,686 | 550 |
| Armenia | 98% | 55 | 1:53,068 | 1,878 |
| Nicaragua | 100% | 55 | 1:109,424 | 3,658 |
| Benin | 100% | 50 | 1:211,517 | 9,853 |
| Angola | - | 49 | 1:550,339 | 1,990 |
| Argentina | 100% | 45 | 1:950,517 | 5,081 |
| Israel | 50% | 40 | 1:210,073 | 6,344 |
| Mongolia | 67% | 37 | 1:79,319 | 5,615 |
| Estonia | 100% | 34 | 1:38,688 | 2,486 |
| Malta | - | 34 | 1:12,628 | 1,146 |
| Puerto Rico | - | 33 | 1:107,585 | 1,960 |
| Hungary | 100% | 32 | 1:305,993 | 1,364 |
| Bulgaria | 100% | 31 | 1:225,496 | 5,341 |
| Honduras | 100% | 26 | 1:339,133 | 6,160 |
| Eritrea | 100% | 25 | 1:190,119 | 176 |
| Niger | 81% | 25 | 1:767,360 | 13,216 |
| Rwanda | 100% | 25 | 1:454,857 | 1,393 |
| Taiwan | 100% | 25 | 1:950,787 | 37,589 |
| Hong Kong | - | 22 | 1:352,397 | 3,870 |
| South Korea | - | 22 | 1:252,019 | 8,670 |
| Botswana | - | 21 | 1:104,021 | 8,595 |
| Costa Rica | 100% | 21 | 1:227,045 | 4,936 |
| El Salvador | - | 21 | 1:301,990 | 3,494 |
| Bhutan | 100% | 20 | 1:41,246 | 1,395 |
| Paraguay | 100% | 20 | 1:361,840 | 4,257 |
| Ukraine | - | 20 | 1:2,274,995 | 5,472 |
| Moldova | - | 18 | 1:197,841 | 1,823 |
| Papua New Guinea | 67% | 18 | 1:452,906 | 34,619 |
| Madagascar | - | 16 | 1:1,476,838 | 2,504 |
| Qatar | 100% | 15 | 1:157,974 | 16,771 |
| Luxembourg | 100% | 14 | 1:40,289 | 1,746 |
| Guinea | 100% | 13 | 1:912,204 | 3,238 |
| Antigua and Barbuda | - | 12 | 1:8,283 | 1,404 |
| Guam | - | 10 | 1:16,065 | 1,791 |
| American Samoa | - | 9 | 1:6,205 | 1,322 |
| Abkhazia | 100% | 8 | 1:30,428 | 1,333 |
| Ivory Coast | 100% | 8 | 1:2,884,492 | 56,420 |
| Latvia | - | 8 | 1:251,956 | 3,024 |
| Guatemala | 100% | 6 | 1:2,684,738 | 6,435 |
| Senegal | 80% | 6 | 1:2,430,226 | 14,702 |
| Cape Verde | - | 4 | 1:132,288 | 3,925 |
| Fiji | - | 4 | 1:223,094 | 2,508 |
| Ghana | - | 4 | 1:6,746,554 | 8,075 |
| Mauritius | 100% | 4 | 1:324,446 | 5,754 |
| Monaco | - | 4 | 1:9,616 | 1,312 |
| Vietnam | - | 4 | 1:23,155,778 | 5,302 |
| Cyprus | 100% | 3 | 1:290,359 | 3,456 |
| Jamaica | - | 3 | 1:961,076 | 14,069 |
| Lesotho | 100% | 3 | 1:679,999 | 29,822 |
| Mauritania | 100% | 3 | 1:1,365,080 | 16,011 |
| Zambia | - | 3 | 1:5,284,931 | 37,895 |
| Burkina Faso | 50% | 2 | 1:9,189,734 | 69,235 |
| Cuba | - | 2 | 1:5,753,276 | 9,613 |
| Haiti | - | 2 | 1:5,363,476 | 32,317 |
| Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | 100% | 2 | 1:55,790 | 4,636 |
| São Tomé and Príncipe | 100% | 2 | 1:95,998 | 3,765 |
| Transnistria | 100% | 2 | 1:237,819 | 1,799 |
| Northern Ireland | 100% | 1 | 1:1,843,146 | 3,737 |
| Bahamas | - | 1 | 1:399,370 | 4,606 |
| Bermuda | - | 1 | 1:64,826 | 2,481 |
| British Virgin Islands | - | 1 | 1:31,250 | 1,787 |
| Cayman Islands | - | 1 | 1:61,299 | 2,487 |
| Central African Republic | - | 1 | 1:4,515,390 | 1,073 |
| East Timor | - | 1 | 1:1,218,375 | 811 |
| Gabon | - | 1 | 1:1,883,336 | 4,538 |
| Iceland | - | 1 | 1:366,017 | 7,938 |
| Isle of Man | - | 1 | 1:85,023 | 723 |
| Laos | - | 1 | 1:6,586,856 | 1,888 |
| Liechtenstein | - | 1 | 1:37,856 | 1,091 |
| Lithuania | - | 1 | 1:2,951,882 | 5,377 |
| Mali | - | 1 | 1:16,977,755 | 8,714 |
| Myanmar | - | 1 | 1:51,948,273 | 3,226 |
| Namibia | - | 1 | 1:2,404,179 | 16,970 |
| Northern Cyprus | 100% | 1 | 1:318,133 | 3,044 |
| Saint Lucia | 100% | 1 | 1:177,815 | 8,104 |
| San Marino | - | 1 | 1:32,920 | 787 |
| Sierra Leone | - | 1 | 1:7,088,663 | 1,497 |
| Slovakia | - | 1 | 1:5,310,063 | 9,949 |
| Swaziland | - | 1 | 1:1,300,177 | 3,374 |
| Togo | - | 1 | 1:7,239,239 | 8,047 |
| United States Virgin Islands | - | 1 | 1:109,747 | 4,493 |
| Zimbabwe | - | 1 | 1:15,423,817 | 113,731 |
The alternate forms: Amír (13), Ämir (5), Ámir (3) & Amīr (1) are calculated separately.
Amir (699,220) may also be a surname.
Amir Forename Meaning
User-submitted Reference
Amir (also spelled Ameer or Emir; Arabic: اَمير; Turkish: Emir; Persian: امير; Hebrew: אמיר); is a multinational and multilingual masculine name.
The name comes from the same root as the word 'immortal' (Emir).
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Amir Demographics
Amir Religious Adherence
in Russia
Sample size: 1,783 (2016)
Religious Adherence
in Russia
Phonetically Similar Names
Amir Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Amir in the Russian language | ||
| Амир | amir | - |
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