Amer
Masculine · “prosperous”
Amer is overwhelmingly a boys’ name — 1,438 boys against 12 girls since 1880.
Amer is Arabic for one who prospers, and the root behind it is about building — an inhabited, cultivated place is amir.
How old is the name Amer?
Amer first appears in US birth records in 1927 — 98 years ago. The typical Amer alive today was born around 2002, making them about 23 years old. About 1,400 people named Amer are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Amer most popular?
Amer peaked in 1997, reaching #1964 nationally. Today it ranks #4396, 2,432 places below that high. See the whole 1997 chart.
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Where it comes from
From amir to Amer
The story of Amer
The root ʿ-m-r covers building, inhabiting and long life — it gives the words for architecture, for a populated place, and for a lifespan, on the reasoning that all three are about something being filled and made to last. Amer is used across the Arab world and appears in American records with Levantine and Gulf families. It is close to but distinct from Amir, a commander.
Meaning
prosperous, flourishing
From an Arabic root meaning to build up, inhabit or make prosper; the same root gives imara, architecture, and umra, the lesser pilgrimage. Amer describes a place or a person that is flourishing.
How the name formed
- amir
- Amer
Related forms: Aamir · Aamir · Amir
Pronouncing Amer
AH-mer
Two syllables, first stressed. Arabic Aamir has a long first vowel.
Nicknames for Amer
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1927
- Most boys named
- 200350 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1964reached in 1997
- Change vs 2024
- +15.0%23 in 2025, from 20
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Amer in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Aamir in Arabic — transliteration
- Aamir in Urdu — same name
- Amir in Turkish — same name
Strongest US states over the last decade: New York, California, Florida.
Amers among us
people named Amer are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 boy in 74,264 born in 2025 was named Amer
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Amer
- #4396
- Amer on the 2025 chart
- #675
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Amer went to 23 boys in 2025, but Ameer and Aamer are the same name said out loud. Together the 3 spellings went to 262, which makes it the 675th most-given boys’ name of the year — 3,721 places above the chart.
- Ameer233
- Amer23
- Aamer6
About 1 boy in 6,519 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 74,264 for Amer itself.
Spellings are grouped by a fixed rule that folds interchangeable English spellings of one sound (ck/k, ph/f, x/ks, a non-initial y for i) and keeps vowels apart, so Sean and Shawn stay separate names. It errs towards splitting: a family here is never larger than the truth. SSA national data, 2025. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Renald test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Amer's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Renald climbed just as high around 1924, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Renald's path sketches the road Amer is walking now.
Amer sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Amer beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Amer in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US boys given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- A settled meaning with a genuinely productive root behind it.
- Four letters and two syllables, about as easy to write as a name gets.
- Recognized across the whole Arab world.
- Amer and Amir are separate Arabic names and constantly confused in English.
- Aamir is the fuller transliteration and marks a long vowel.
- It is close to Omar and Ameer in an American ear.
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Frequently asked
- How many Amers are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 1,400 people named Amer are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Amer?
- Amer is one of 3 recorded spellings. Ameer is the more common one — 233 births in 2025 against 23 for Amer.
- How popular is the name Amer in 2025?
- Amer ranks #4396 among US boy names in 2025, with 23 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Amer?
- About 1 in every 74,264 US boys born in 2025 was named Amer — 23 in all.
- Will my child share the name Amer with classmates?
- Amer will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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