# Emir (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/emir/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 5,620 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 5,615 / 5 (0% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 1,021, 1996 to 2025 |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 5 | 15,903 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 132 | 1,297 |
| 2012 | 155 | 1,176 |
| 2013 | 153 | 1,176 |
| 2014 | 152 | 1,210 |
| 2015 | 147 | 1,241 |
| 2016 | 117 | 1,473 |
| 2017 | 200 | 1,011 |
| 2018 | 198 | 1,030 |
| 2019 | 237 | 923 |
| 2020 | 411 | 650 |
| 2021 | 383 | 695 |
| 2022 | 449 | 623 |
| 2023 | 492 | 583 |
| 2024 | 532 | 558 |
| 2025 | 546 | 551 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 47 | 681 |
| 2012 | 52 | 654 |
| 2013 | 47 | 692 |
| 2014 | 42 | 754 |
| 2015 | 41 | 779 |
| 2016 | 63 | 580 |
| 2017 | 54 | 650 |
| 2018 | 56 | 636 |
| 2019 | 64 | 582 |
| 2020 | 64 | 568 |
| 2021 | 51 | 688 |
| 2022 | 52 | 665 |
| 2023 | 72 | 536 |
| 2024 | 73 | 529 |
| 2025 | 75 | 517 |

## People named Emir

- Emir Spahić, Bosnian association football player
- Emir Mutapčić, Bosnian basketball player
- Emir Sulejmanović, Bosnia and herzegovina and Finnish basketball player
- Emir Dizdarević, a Bosnian chess player
- Emir Halilović, association football player
- Emir Karić, Bosnian association football player
- Emir Hadžihafizbegović, Bosnian-Herzegovinian actor
- Emir Hadžić, Bosnia and Herzegovina footballer
- Emir Sader, Brazilian sociologist and journalist

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.