Amiri

What Amiri means

Meaning not yet sourced. Wiktionary has no word-by-word meaning for Amiri yet, and we don’t write our own.

Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #4,407 in 2015, #604 in 2025 Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Amiri?

US: Rising: up from #4407 in 2015. England & Wales: New in the last 10 years.

Biggest US share so far: 2023, when 596 boys got the name (#506 that year). First in the US records in 1971.

How common

• About 1 in 3,619 baby boys in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 16,996 baby boys in England and Wales in 2025

“1 in N” divides by all listed births for that sex. The US list leaves out names given to fewer than 5 babies, and the UK lists leave out names given to 2 or fewer, so the real figure is a little rarer than shown.

Where in the US

Most popular in NV (1.24 per 1,000 boys), CT (0.68 per 1,000 boys), OH (0.61 per 1,000 boys) in 2025.

SSA state data, 2025. Share of all listed boys born in each state.

US vs UK

Amiri is #604 in the US and #1613 in England & Wales (2025).

Same sex as this page (boys). SSA (US), ONS (England and Wales), NRS (Scotland).

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 64.0% of US babies named Amiri were boys.

Counts below the publishing threshold (US 5, UK 3) are not included.

Other spellings

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Amari2,000 US · 203 E&W
• Omari397 US · 54 E&W
• Emari73 US · 3 E&W
• Amauri64 US
• Ahmari60 US
• Amaru57 US · 3 E&W
• Amarii39 US · 3 E&W
• Imari24 US

Names that sound the same and differ by a letter or two, with baby counts for the same sex. US and E&W counts.

If you like Amiri

Boys

• Walker#78Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #340 in 2015, #78 in 2025
• Ismael#263Form of Ishmael, meaning “God hears, God will hear”^*
• Callahan#227Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #1,804 in 2015, #227 in 2025
• Lane#250Editor’s note Up from #297 in 2015 to #250 in 2025 in the US
• River#111From the word “river”^*
• Kairo#226Editor’s note First shows up in US records in 1995, with 6 babies

For a sister

• Josie#82Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #250 in 2015, #82 in 2025
• Sage#160“sedge”^*
• Noa#226Hawaiian, meaning “commoner, free man”^*
• Maeve#76“intoxicating”^*
• Celine#207“heaven”^*
• Alora#195“my dream”^*

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under where there are enough, topped up with common names whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Amiri’s. Place names are only included if they are in the top 300. Rank is US 2025.