The Arabic name Amirah means ‘princess’. It is the feminine form of Amir, which stands for ‘commander, prince’.
Amirah is a female first name.
The name Amirah isn’t among the current fashionable names in our top 10 stats, but nonetheless, it’s still very popular and common. In our SmartGenius ranking of all girls names, Amirah ranks 604. Recently, out of every 10,000 newborn girls, approximately 3 were named Amirah. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Amirah.
Amirah is a fairly recent phenomenon. In the past, the name wasn't really on the radar of expectant parents. Then, unexpectedly, Amirah cried out for attention, reaching its peak in popularity at #494 in our SmartGenius statistics in the year 2020. People over 50 probably didn't have classmates named Amirah, for there were many years in which not a single parent chose this first name for their daughter. Although it also has never been in the top 100 of most popular first names, Amirah seems to have been in vogue for a while, especially since the beginning of the new millennium.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Amirah was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
516 babies were named Amirah in 2022 - that's 1 in 287,271 newborn girls. With this number, the girls' name Amirah ranked 526 in our SmartGenius first name statistics in 2022, the most recent year for which records are available.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter A is the most popular first letter for girls’ names. 11.8% of all common girls’ names in the US start with this letter. The second most common first letter in girls' names is S.
With six letters, the name Amirah is of average length. In fact, 28% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly six letters. 24% of all first names are shorter, while 48% have seven letters or more. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
That means that if 11.8% of all girls' names start with an A, this initial letter occurs over three times as often as all other letters on average. And, by the way, of all the girls' names that begin with the letter A, the name Ashley is the most common.
If your name is Amirah and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Amirah, you can simply say:
Apple
Mouse
Igloo
Rocket
Apple
Hat
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Amirah
Amirah
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
A
M
I
R
A
H
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
A
M
I
R
A
H
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Amirah sounds like this:
