Amyra
Feminine · “princess (Arabic)”
Amyra is a recent spelling of Amira, a name carried for centuries through Arabic, and independently through Hebrew, and long at home in Bosnia, South Asia and North Africa. It moves in three easy syllables with the stress in the middle, ending in the same open -a that Amelia and Aria share. The y is the modern part; everything under it is old.
How old is the name Amyra?
Amyra first appears in US birth records in 1992 — 33 years ago. The typical Amyra is a kid of about 6 — this name's wave is very recent. About 2,900 people named Amyra are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Amyra most popular?
Amyra peaked in 2024, reaching #970 nationally. Today it ranks #1150, 180 places below that high. See the whole 2024 chart.
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Where it comes from
From amīr (Arabic: commander, prince) to Amyra
The story of Amyra
The Arabic amīr — commander, prince — is the same word that reached English as 'emir', and its feminine form amīra has been a girl's name across the Arabic-speaking world for a very long time. It traveled with Islam into the Balkans, where Amira became ordinary in Bosnia, and into South and Southeast Asia, where Amirah is a common spelling. Quite separately, Hebrew has its own Amira, built on a root tied to grain and treetops, and the two names have coexisted without much confusion. Amyra is the newest layer: an American respelling that swaps the i for a y, and it arrived on the records only in the last few decades.
Meaningscholars disagree
princess (Arabic); treetop or sheaf (Hebrew)
Two separate names meet at this sound. The Arabic أميرة (amīra) is the feminine of amīr, 'commander, prince', giving 'princess'. The Hebrew עמירה (Amira) comes from a different root and is read as 'treetop' or 'sheaf of grain'. Both are well documented; which one applies depends on the family. The y-spelling is a modern American respelling and carries no separate meaning of its own.
How the name formed
- amīrArabic: commander, prince
- Amīra
- Amira
- Amyra
Related forms: أميرة (Amira) · Amira · Amirah · עמירה (Amira) · Ameera · امیرہ (Amira)
Pronouncing Amyra
uh-MEER-uh
That is the pronunciation used everywhere Amira is traditional. Because of the y, some American speakers will guess uh-MY-ruh on first sight, so expect to correct it early.
Nicknames for Amyra
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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
- 1992
- Most girls named
- 2024267 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #970reached in 2024
- Change vs 2024
- −24.7%201 in 2025, from 267
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.
Amyra in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- أميرة (Amira) in Arabic — transliteration
- Amira in Bosnian — same name
- Amirah in Malay / Indonesian — spelling variant
- עמירה (Amira) in Hebrew — related form
- Ameera in English — spelling variant
- امیرہ (Amira) in Urdu — transliteration
Strongest US states over the last decade: Texas, California, New York.
Amyras among us
people named Amyra are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 7,996 born in 2025 was named Amyra
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Amyra
- #1150
- Amyra on the 2025 chart
- #95
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Amyra went to 201 girls in 2025, but Amira, Amirah and Amyrah and the rest below are the same name said out loud. Together the 11 spellings went to 3,114, which makes it the 95th most-given girls’ name of the year — 1,055 places above the chart.
and 6 rarer spellings.
About 1 girl in 516 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 7,996 for Amyra 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 Launa test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Amyra's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Launa climbed just as high around 1908, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Launa's path sketches the road Amyra is walking now.
Amyra 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 Amyra is headed
Amyra looks set to keep climbing gently, with roughly 17% more babies a year by 2030 if the current curve holds.
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.
Amyra beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Amyra in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- The underlying name Amira is known worldwide, so the sound needs no explaining even where the spelling does.
- Two ready-made short forms, Mira and Amy, both of which already stand on their own as names.
- At home in Arabic, Bosnian, Hebrew and Malay-speaking families, with the stress falling the same way in each.
- Uncommon in American classrooms without being unfamiliar to the ear.
- The y will be undone constantly. Amira is the far more established spelling, and forms, teachers and autocorrect will drift toward it for life.
- Two live pronunciations, uh-MEER-uh and uh-MY-ruh, and the spelling gives no clue which you mean. Most families settle it by saying it first and letting people follow.
- Its American record is short, so there is little sense yet of how it wears on an adult — though Amira itself has been worn by adults for centuries, which answers most of the question.
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Frequently asked
- How many Amyras are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 2,900 people named Amyra are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Amyra?
- Amyra is one of 5 recorded spellings. Amira is the more common one — 2,168 births in 2025 against 201 for Amyra.
- How popular is the name Amyra in 2025?
- Amyra ranks #1150 among US girl names in 2025, with 201 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Amyra?
- About 1 in every 7,996 US girls born in 2025 was named Amyra — 201 in all.
- Will my child share the name Amyra with classmates?
- Amyra will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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