Amirah

femaleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Amirah: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Amirah: Recorded every year since 1996, its highest recorded position is #240, and it stood at #718 in 2025.

4registrars recorded it
47times a registrar ranked it
30years from first to last
#240highest recorded position
10groupings it qualifies for

Region

Rising

among girls in England and Wales · 1996–2024

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England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#974
1997	#645
1998	#628
1999	#557
2000	#571
2001	#504
2002	#441
2003	#450
2004	#483
2005	#473
2006	#461
2007	#404
2008	#411
2009	#321
2010	#347
2011	#318
2012	#350
2013	#350
2014	#329
2015	#331
2016	#315
2017	#340
2018	#311
2019	#340
2020	#357
2021	#318
2022	#322
2023	#245
2024	#240

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

RisingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among girls in England and Wales in every year from 1996 to 2024.

In 2024: #240 among girls in England and Wales, #412 among girls in Republic of Ireland, #431 among girls in Scotland.

Official data from 4 national registrars across 4 regions, 1996–2025 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1996
First recorded at #974 among girls in England and Wales in 1996 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Girls
Highest recorded1996–2024
Highest recorded position: #240 among girls in England and Wales, in 2024 (recorded 1996–2024).
England and Wales · Girls
Most recent2025
Most recently recorded at #718 among girls in Republic of Ireland, in 2025.
Republic of Ireland · Girls

Amirah appears in 3 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Girls, which has ranked it in 29 years beginning in 1996, and has registered 3,185 births with the name.

Amirah across 3 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Amirah's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
England and Wales · Girls	#974 (1996)	#240 (2024)	#240 (2024)	29 of 29	3,185 (1996–2024)	202 (2024)
Republic of Ireland · Girls	#758 (2010)	#412 (2024)	#718 (2025)	11 of 16	54 (2010–2025)	9 (2024)
Northern Ireland · Girls	#358 (2015)	#296 (2017)	#391 (2023)	6 of 9	26 (2015–2023)	5 (2016)

Amirah by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Amirah in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	149	4 of 10	37
2000s	831	10 of 10	83
2010s	1,412	10 of 10	141
2020sbusiest	793	5 of 10	159

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2020s were its busiest decade — the 5 years of it this list covers, averaging 159 births a year.

Its sharpest single-year move came between 2022 and 2023, when recorded births rose by 49, from 135 to 184.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Amirah appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 4 regions, from 1996 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #240 in England and Wales in 2024.

Amirah's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	female	#240	202	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#245	184	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#322	135	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#318	148	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#357	124	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#340	132	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#311	153	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#340	140	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#315	157	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#331	141	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#329	139	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#350	130	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#350	137	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#318	151	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#347	132	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#321	140	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#411	104	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#404	102	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#461	84	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#473	78	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#483	70	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#450	76	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#441	72	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#504	58	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#571	47	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#557	50	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#628	40	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#645	38	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#974	21	High	Verified
2023	Northern Ireland	female	#391	3	High	Verified
2022	Northern Ireland	female	#305	5	High	Verified
2019	Northern Ireland	female	#336	4	High	Verified
2017	Northern Ireland	female	#296	5	High	Verified
2016	Northern Ireland	female	#306	5	High	Verified
2015	Northern Ireland	female	#358	4	High	Verified
2025	Republic of Ireland	female	#718	4	High	Verified
2024	Republic of Ireland	female	#412	9	High	Verified
2023	Republic of Ireland	female	#445	8	High	Verified
2022	Republic of Ireland	female	#559	6	High	Verified
2021	Republic of Ireland	female	#764	4	High	Verified
2020	Republic of Ireland	female	#700	4	High	Verified
2019	Republic of Ireland	female	#716	4	High	Verified
2018	Republic of Ireland	female	#629	5	High	Verified
2016	Republic of Ireland	female	#868	3	High	Verified
2013	Republic of Ireland	female	#894	3	High	Verified
2010	Republic of Ireland	female	#758	4	High	Verified
2024	Scotland	female	#431	7	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Northern Ireland hub — collected by NISRA
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland
Scotland hub — collected by National Records of Scotland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 4 registrars between 1996 and 2025, ranked in 30 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #240, first reached in 2024.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 202 births, registered in England and Wales in 2024.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2010, and 28 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

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Amiya · #836, 25y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 4 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Arjun · #240, 30y
Isra · #240, 30y
Bobbie · #238, 30y
Kenan · #242, 30y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1990 and 1999.

Arjun · #240, 30y
Frazer · #240, 29y
Isra · #240, 30y
John-Paul · #240, 29y

Amirah was ranked #240 in England and Wales · Girls in 2024. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Amirah and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Amirah without appearing here.

Amirah moved ahead of

Tracey Compare
In 1996 they stood at #974 and #783 in England and Wales · Girls; by 1997 that had become #645 and #1450.
Eileen Compare
In 1996 they stood at #974 and #916 in England and Wales · Girls; by 1997 that had become #645 and #1365.
Barbara Compare
In 1996 they stood at #974 and #848 in England and Wales · Girls; by 1997 that had become #645 and #1045.
Lorraine Compare
In 1996 they stood at #974 and #661 in England and Wales · Girls; by 1997 that had become #645 and #1015.

Moved ahead of Amirah

Violet Compare
In 2004 they stood at #483 and #607 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2005 that had become #473 and #273.
Astrid Compare
In 2024 they stood at #412 and #504 in Republic of Ireland · Girls; by 2025 that had become #718 and #608.
Olive Compare
In 2011 they stood at #318 and #343 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2012 that had become #350 and #260.
Ada Compare
In 2012 they stood at #350 and #384 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2013 that had become #350 and #280.

Moved the opposite way to Amirah

Abigail Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Amirah went from #974 to #240 while Abigail went from #21 to #154.
Aimee Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Amirah went from #974 to #240 while Aimee went from #70 to #1603.
Aisling Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Amirah went from #974 to #240 while Aisling went from #440 to #2000.
Alex Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Amirah went from #974 to #240 while Alex went from #161 to #2253.

Moved the same way as Amirah

Ada Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Amirah went from #974 to #240 and Ada from #2683 to #40.
Alma Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Amirah went from #974 to #240 and Alma from #2096 to #234.
Alyssa Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Amirah went from #974 to #240 and Alyssa from #783 to #285.
Amalie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Amirah went from #974 to #240 and Amalie from #2096 to #1128.

What's not yet available

Meaning
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Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 4 regions, from 1996 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #240 in England and Wales in 2024. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Amirah

Amirah at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Amirah across 3 official records

Amirah by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Amirah appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

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Also first recorded in the 1990s

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Amirah and the names beside it

Amirah moved ahead of

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Amirah at a glance

Amirah across 3 official records

Amirah by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Amirah appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Names published alongside Amirah

Amirah and the names beside it

Amirah moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Amirah

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