first name
AMIRAH
of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census
Of the 5,848 people named Amirah, 58.9% reported their origin as Black, 13.3% as Hispanic or Latino and 12.7% as White. Virtually all are female (99.8%). These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.
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Amirah peaked in 2024, when 678 babies got the name.
At least 10,863 babies have been given the name since 1976. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero. * 2025 is the newest year published and it undercounts: a card application is filed some time after a birth.
Amirah by decade
Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 2020s, when it ranked #1,038. The largest share of babies named Amirah, 59.3%, were born in 2013 or later.
Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. The 2020s run only to 2025. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.
Where Amirah is most common
Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Amirah has been most common in Maryland (3.2×), New Jersey (2.4×), and Florida (2.2×), and least common in Alabama (0.28×).
9,184 births recorded by state, 1910–2025. 2× means twice as common as nationally. States with fewer than 30 such births are left blank, and SSA withholds any year with fewer than 5 in a state, so small states read low.
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