Amira Forename
1,034th
Most Common
name in the World
Approximately 893,784 people bear this name
Most prevalent in:
Egypt
Highest density in:
Egypt
Amira Forename User-submission:
The name Amira (Amirah, Emyra) means 'leader', 'commander', 'chief' in the Quran. It derives from the a-m-r root, meaning 'to command', which is used in many places in the Quran. Similarly, it may also mean 'Princess', 'leader', 'noble lady'.
Amira Forename Distribution
| Place | Gender | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Egypt | 100% | 521,495 | 1:176 | 21 |
| Sudan | 100% | 94,198 | 1:401 | 69 |
| Iraq | 80% | 68,902 | 1:508 | 118 |
| Chad | 100% | 25,147 | 1:541 | 62 |
| Eritrea | 84% | 21,234 | 1:224 | 92 |
| India | 51% | 18,743 | 1:64,818 | 8,439 |
| Algeria | 96% | 17,535 | 1:2,177 | 352 |
| Yemen | - | 12,019 | 1:2,188 | 316 |
| Malaysia | 99% | 9,114 | 1:3,341 | 359 |
| Colombia | 100% | 7,637 | 1:6,256 | 665 |
| Morocco | 100% | 6,497 | 1:5,287 | 547 |
| Libya | - | 6,059 | 1:1,027 | 199 |
| Nepal | 81% | 5,598 | 1:5,089 | 697 |
| Nigeria | 100% | 5,540 | 1:32,051 | 2,759 |
| Bosnia and Herzegovina | 100% | 4,850 | 1:727 | 179 |
| Uzbekistan | 100% | 4,736 | 1:6,501 | 1,036 |
| United States | 100% | 4,200 | 1:86,318 | 4,033 |
| Pakistan | 98% | 4,018 | 1:48,372 | 2,797 |
| Russia | 99% | 3,337 | 1:43,223 | 990 |
| Spain | 100% | 2,850 | 1:16,326 | 1,038 |
| Oman | 99% | 2,849 | 1:1,442 | 227 |
| Mexico | 100% | 2,814 | 1:44,117 | 1,783 |
| Somaliland | 100% | 2,798 | 1:1,252 | 222 |
| Indonesia | 99% | 2,738 | 1:94,216 | 10,702 |
| Bangladesh | 100% | 2,658 | 1:59,993 | 4,878 |
| Afghanistan | 96% | 2,554 | 1:12,773 | 1,197 |
| Philippines | 99% | 2,450 | 1:43,269 | 3,328 |
| Syria | - | 2,397 | 1:8,054 | 763 |
| Tunisia | 99% | 2,378 | 1:285 | 29 |
| Qatar | 100% | 2,236 | 1:1,060 | 75 |
| Lebanon | 100% | 1,655 | 1:3,400 | 574 |
| Ethiopia | 100% | 1,618 | 1:60,297 | 5,277 |
| Djibouti | - | 1,196 | 1:766 | 169 |
| Venezuela | 100% | 1,092 | 1:27,657 | 2,059 |
| France | 100% | 1,091 | 1:60,926 | 1,696 |
| Tajikistan | 98% | 1,048 | 1:7,991 | 963 |
| Bahrain | - | 1,021 | 1:1,321 | 216 |
| Somalia | - | 997 | 1:13,567 | 1,178 |
| Canada | 100% | 924 | 1:35,859 | 2,684 |
| Kazakhstan | 99% | 849 | 1:20,903 | 1,284 |
| Sweden | 100% | 837 | 1:11,778 | 990 |
| England | 87% | 756 | 1:73,549 | 3,048 |
| Brazil | 100% | 593 | 1:361,275 | 13,200 |
| Saudi Arabia | - | 583 | 1:52,852 | 6,182 |
| Ghana | 100% | 562 | 1:48,018 | 2,599 |
| Argentina | 100% | 559 | 1:76,517 | 1,675 |
| Ecuador | - | 518 | 1:34,222 | 1,486 |
| Palestine | 88% | 494 | 1:9,211 | 805 |
| Germany | 100% | 462 | 1:209,259 | 3,192 |
| United Arab Emirates | - | 460 | 1:15,548 | 1,615 |
| Thailand | 95% | 415 | 1:168,833 | 11,853 |
| Niger | 91% | 353 | 1:54,346 | 2,586 |
| Israel | 97% | 328 | 1:25,619 | 2,171 |
| Romania | 100% | 297 | 1:67,515 | 3,403 |
| Sri Lanka | - | 286 | 1:72,724 | 6,418 |
| Croatia | 100% | 278 | 1:15,169 | 955 |
| Kuwait | - | 266 | 1:14,230 | 1,622 |
| Netherlands | 100% | 264 | 1:64,023 | 3,991 |
| Slovenia | 100% | 247 | 1:9,954 | 903 |
| Austria | 100% | 233 | 1:36,542 | 1,260 |
| Chile | 96% | 227 | 1:77,565 | 2,223 |
| Serbia | 100% | 212 | 1:33,706 | 1,672 |
| Denmark | - | 211 | 1:26,775 | 1,377 |
| Jordan | 87% | 210 | 1:42,032 | 1,448 |
| Kyrgyzstan | 90% | 164 | 1:36,422 | 3,674 |
| Maldives | 100% | 150 | 1:2,893 | 159 |
| DR Congo | 84% | 144 | 1:512,692 | 17,971 |
| Kenya | 98% | 139 | 1:333,145 | 11,076 |
| Peru | 100% | 128 | 1:248,371 | 5,921 |
| Congo | 100% | 115 | 1:43,558 | 3,455 |
| Panama | 100% | 112 | 1:34,880 | 2,735 |
| Bolivia | 100% | 109 | 1:97,261 | 2,510 |
| Uruguay | 100% | 97 | 1:35,336 | 1,497 |
| Switzerland | 100% | 96 | 1:85,557 | 2,901 |
| Dominican Republic | - | 86 | 1:121,294 | 5,870 |
| Turkey | 100% | 84 | 1:926,211 | 9,566 |
| Belarus | 94% | 83 | 1:114,246 | 1,135 |
| Norway | 100% | 83 | 1:61,835 | 2,363 |
| Australia | - | 81 | 1:168,613 | 4,674 |
| Kosovo | - | 80 | 1:23,268 | 2,467 |
| Montenegro | 100% | 74 | 1:8,575 | 1,024 |
| Belize | 100% | 70 | 1:5,062 | 1,019 |
| Iran | 100% | 70 | 1:1,121,384 | 9,081 |
| Cameroon | 100% | 68 | 1:317,802 | 11,769 |
| Italy | 100% | 67 | 1:911,374 | 8,121 |
| Belgium | 100% | 63 | 1:182,382 | 4,694 |
| Costa Rica | 100% | 56 | 1:85,142 | 2,948 |
| New Zealand | - | 52 | 1:87,232 | 3,887 |
| South Africa | 96% | 52 | 1:1,048,705 | 39,315 |
| North Macedonia | 100% | 50 | 1:41,815 | 3,135 |
| Czechia | 100% | 49 | 1:217,473 | 1,674 |
| Azerbaijan | 100% | 35 | 1:275,513 | 7,529 |
| Finland | 100% | 35 | 1:156,662 | 2,989 |
| Greece | 100% | 35 | 1:312,416 | 5,175 |
| Hungary | 100% | 31 | 1:315,864 | 1,393 |
| Scotland | 79% | 27 | 1:198,162 | 3,518 |
| Trinidad and Tobago | 100% | 27 | 1:50,423 | 4,495 |
| Burkina Faso | 100% | 25 | 1:735,179 | 22,242 |
| Singapore | 100% | 20 | 1:314,353 | 9,609 |
| Ivory Coast | 100% | 18 | 1:1,281,996 | 34,985 |
| China | - | 17 | 1:80,356,222 | 63,797 |
| Malta | - | 17 | 1:25,256 | 1,655 |
| Papua New Guinea | 54% | 17 | 1:479,548 | 36,558 |
| Albania | 100% | 16 | 1:190,411 | 10,160 |
| Georgia | 61% | 16 | 1:233,654 | 5,937 |
| Benin | 100% | 15 | 1:705,056 | 20,455 |
| Nicaragua | 100% | 15 | 1:401,222 | 7,581 |
| South Korea | 100% | 15 | 1:369,628 | 10,743 |
| Wales | 67% | 15 | 1:206,287 | 3,673 |
| Ireland | 100% | 13 | 1:357,194 | 5,120 |
| Bulgaria | 100% | 13 | 1:537,722 | 8,096 |
| Senegal | 100% | 13 | 1:1,121,643 | 9,904 |
| El Salvador | - | 12 | 1:528,482 | 4,653 |
| Tanzania | 100% | 12 | 1:4,399,027 | 26,540 |
| Honduras | 100% | 11 | 1:801,588 | 9,931 |
| Mauritius | - | 10 | 1:129,778 | 3,502 |
| Uganda | 100% | 10 | 1:4,095,692 | 39,987 |
| Mozambique | - | 9 | 1:3,027,040 | 2,336 |
| Poland | 99% | 9 | 1:4,225,235 | 4,388 |
| Sierra Leone | - | 9 | 1:787,629 | 675 |
| Armenia | 100% | 7 | 1:416,965 | 5,243 |
| Antigua and Barbuda | - | 6 | 1:16,566 | 2,341 |
| Estonia | - | 6 | 1:219,230 | 6,245 |
| Guinea | 100% | 6 | 1:1,976,441 | 4,482 |
| Japan | - | 6 | 1:21,331,010 | 46,700 |
| Taiwan | 100% | 6 | 1:3,961,614 | 68,952 |
| Ukraine | - | 6 | 1:7,583,318 | 11,559 |
| Guatemala | 100% | 5 | 1:3,221,686 | 6,935 |
| Hong Kong | - | 5 | 1:1,550,545 | 7,446 |
| Mauritania | 100% | 5 | 1:819,048 | 12,822 |
| Cambodia | 100% | 4 | 1:4,068,332 | 35,322 |
| Gabon | - | 4 | 1:470,834 | 2,822 |
| Malawi | 100% | 4 | 1:4,278,078 | 13,569 |
| Moldova | - | 4 | 1:890,285 | 4,314 |
| Portugal | - | 4 | 1:2,602,716 | 8,189 |
| Turkmenistan | 100% | 4 | 1:1,368,218 | 2,487 |
| Transnistria | 100% | 3 | 1:158,546 | 1,411 |
| Zambia | - | 3 | 1:5,284,931 | 37,895 |
| Cape Verde | - | 2 | 1:264,576 | 4,841 |
| Jamaica | - | 2 | 1:1,441,614 | 15,741 |
| Luxembourg | 100% | 2 | 1:282,024 | 3,520 |
| Puerto Rico | - | 2 | 1:1,775,150 | 6,781 |
| Slovakia | - | 2 | 1:2,655,032 | 6,915 |
| Northern Ireland | - | 1 | 1:1,843,146 | 3,737 |
| Abkhazia | 100% | 1 | 1:243,422 | 3,525 |
| Angola | - | 1 | 1:26,966,606 | 7,835 |
| Bhutan | 100% | 1 | 1:824,928 | 6,865 |
| Brunei | - | 1 | 1:419,570 | 3,266 |
| Cayman Islands | - | 1 | 1:61,299 | 2,487 |
| Cyprus | - | 1 | 1:871,076 | 5,368 |
| Dominica | - | 1 | 1:75,471 | 1,341 |
| Fiji | - | 1 | 1:892,378 | 3,968 |
| Gambia | - | 1 | 1:1,926,596 | 1,391 |
| Haiti | - | 1 | 1:10,726,953 | 41,696 |
| Iceland | - | 1 | 1:366,017 | 7,938 |
| Latvia | - | 1 | 1:2,015,645 | 6,531 |
| Lesotho | - | 1 | 1:2,039,997 | 47,971 |
| Liberia | 100% | 1 | 1:4,412,061 | 36,340 |
| Mongolia | 100% | 1 | 1:2,934,814 | 16,205 |
| Northern Cyprus | - | 1 | 1:318,133 | 3,044 |
| Paraguay | 100% | 1 | 1:7,236,805 | 16,549 |
| Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha | - | 1 | 1:5,829 | 386 |
| Samoa | - | 1 | 1:195,190 | 1,348 |
| São Tomé and Príncipe | 100% | 1 | 1:191,997 | 5,295 |
| Togo | - | 1 | 1:7,239,239 | 8,047 |
| United States Virgin Islands | - | 1 | 1:109,747 | 4,493 |
| Zimbabwe | 100% | 1 | 1:15,423,817 | 113,731 |
The alternate forms: Amíra (1) are calculated separately.
Amira (64,024) may also be a surname.
Amira Forename Meaning
User-submitted Reference
The name Amira (Amirah, Emyra) means 'leader', 'commander', 'chief' in the Quran. It derives from the a-m-r root, meaning 'to command', which is used in many places in the Quran. Similarly, it may also mean 'Princess', 'leader', 'noble lady'.
- emyras18Amira means 'princess' in Arabian.
- rinkishaAmira Forename Popularity
Amira Demographics
Amira Political Affiliation
in United States
Sample size: 676 (2014)
United States
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Phonetically Similar Names
Amira Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Amira in the Russian language | ||
| Амира | amira | - |
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