Entry № 551 · Arabic origin

Amira Amira — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ ah-MEE-rah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Arabic
Meaning
"Princess, commander"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Ancient

A name that means "princess, commander".

Amira (أميرة) is the Arabic word for "princess" — the feminine form of amir (commander, prince), the same root that gives English the word "emir." In Hebrew, Amira (אֲמִירָה) means "speech" or "saying," with a separate but harmonising softness.

Common across the Arab world, Israel, and the South Asian diaspora, Amira has been rising in Western countries as parents seek names that feel international and feminine without being delicate.

Princess, commander — a Arabic name.

The name in its native script.

أميرة
Transliteration
Amīrah
Pronunciation
/ əˈmiː.rə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Amira stands.

Amira does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Amiras before her.

Real people
Amira Willighagen
Dutch classical singer. Won Holland's Got Talent at age 9 in 2013.
born 2004
In fiction
Amira
Character in numerous works of contemporary fiction.

Names connected to Amira.

The number behind Amira.

6

The Nurturer

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Amira reduce to 6, The Nurturer. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.