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Amera

Feminine · “princess”

1970high 2008
#4546 in the U.S.given to only a few children a year
rare30 girls in 2025

Amera stands near Arabic amira, a princess — the feminine of amir, a commander, which English borrowed as admiral.

How old is the name Amera?

Amera first appears in US birth records in 1970 — 55 years ago. The typical Amera alive today was born around 2009, making them about 16 years old. About 1,100 people named Amera are estimated to be alive in the US today.

When was the name Amera most popular?

Amera peaked in 2008, reaching #3158 nationally. Today it ranks #4546, 1,388 places below that high. See the whole 2008 chart.

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Where it comes from

Our story of Amera

Ours, offered as ours. English admiral is Arabic amir al-bahr, commander of the sea, with the article swallowed and a d added by Latin scribes who thought of admirari, to wonder at. So a naval rank in every European navy is a garbled Arabic phrase. Amir also gives emir and emirate. Amera is the feminine of that word, and it means one who commands rather than one who is born to it.

Meaningscholars disagree

princess, commander

Arabic amira is the feminine of amir, one who commands, from a root meaning to order. The word is about authority rather than birth. An unrelated reading from Latin or from Amara is also offered for this English spelling.

Pronouncing Amera

ah-MEE-rah

Three syllables with the stress in the middle. English speakers often say uh-MER-uh.

Nicknames for Amera

Moderate

AmiThe front of the name
MeraTakes the back of the name
MeriA softened household form
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What the data says

The long climb, and where it stands now

GIRLS NAMED · 1970–202553270533019702025

US babies named Amera per year from 1970 to 2025
AVERAGE RANK BY DECADE#1#10#100#1000#31581970s2020s

The same years in position rather than babies

First recorded
1970
Most girls named
200853 — the highest on record
Peak rank
#3158reached in 2008
Change vs 2024
+11.1%30 in 2025, from 27
Amera sits in the rare tail. Its best year on record was 2008, with 53 girls. Today it is given to few enough children that it does not enter the ranked charts at all.

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.

Amera in other languages

The same name elsewhere

  • Amira in Arabic — related form
  • Emira in Turkish — same name
  • Ameera in English — spelling variant

Strongest US states over the last decade: New York, Illinois.

Ameras among us

1,100

people named Amera are estimated to be alive in the US today

About 1 girl in 53,576 born in 2025 was named Amera

Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method

Spellings of Amera

#4546
Amera on the 2025 chart
#682
counting every spelling

The SSA counts spellings, not names. Amera went to 30 girls in 2025, but Ameera, Ameerah and Amerah are the same name said out loud. Together the 4 spellings went to 285, which makes it the 682nd most-given girls’ name of the year — 3,864 places above the chart.

About 1 girl in 5,640 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 53,576 for Amera 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

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Is it right for you

The Meosha test

Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Amera's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Meosha climbed just as high around 1993, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Meosha's path sketches the road Amera is walking now.

40%chance Amera will feel “very 2010s” by 2040
Amera, aligned on its peakMeosha· peak 1993not yet written
#1#10#100#1000peak-30 yrs+20 yrsMeosha · #11448Amera today
Amera today is about where Meosha stood in 2010 — 17 years past a #3158-sized peak. Within 15 years, Meosha had drifted out of the mainstream charts.
Ages quietlysteadyDates fast

Amera 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

Where Amera is headed

19702030

US babies named Amera per year, 1970 to 2025, with a projection to 2030

Amera should hold steady through 2030 — the curve is flat, and flat curves are the most predictable kind.

Steady-7% by 2030projected around #4,695 in 2030

Medium confidence — fitted on official counts through 2025.

A damped-trend projection of the official birth data — a sketch of momentum, not a promise. Every name's forecast, ranked.

Amera beside its neighbors

The names ranked closest to Amera in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.

Amerathis name30#4546Amie30#4546Rashell30#4546Renatta30#4546Raisa30#4546

US girls given each name in 2025.

The trade-off

Practical strengths
  • A settled meaning about authority, which few women's names carry.
  • Ami and Mera are both ready short forms.
  • Every vowel is sounded, so it reads correctly in most languages.
What to consider
  • Amera, Amira and Ameera are all in use and none is dominant in English.
  • The English spelling shifts the stressed vowel away from the Arabic.
  • It is close to Amara, Amelia and America in an American ear.

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Frequently asked

How many Ameras are there in the world?
No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 1,100 people named Amera are estimated to be alive in the US today.
How do you spell Amera?
Amera is one of 4 recorded spellings. Ameera is the more common one — 161 births in 2025 against 30 for Amera.
How popular is the name Amera in 2025?
Amera ranks #4546 among US girl names in 2025, with 30 babies given the name.
How rare is the name Amera?
About 1 in every 53,576 US girls born in 2025 was named Amera — 30 in all.
Will my child share the name Amera with classmates?
Amera will almost certainly be the only one in school.

Ranked beside Amera

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Amie#4546 · Rashell#4546 · Renatta#4546 · Raisa#4546 · Amena#4546 · Aryn#4546 · Nadiya#4546 · Jeanne#4546

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