Amir (name)
Amir is a masculine name of multi-lingual origin.
Meaning
In Arabic the name means prince or royal. The word originally meant 'commander '. It later became a title given to a ruler's son, and hence 'prince'. In Arabic, the name comes from the same root as the word emir. In Urdu the name has the same meaning as the original in Arabic, meaning ‘prince”. In Pashto the name comes to mean ‘leader’ or ‘boss’.In Hebrew, when spelt אמיר the name means crown. When spelt עמיר the name means a small sheaf or bundle
Usage
Amir is most common as a given name in Iran.Amir was among the five most popular names for Black newborn boys in the American state of Virginia in 2022 and again in 2023.
In the Balkans, Amir is popular among Bosniaks in the former Yugoslav nations. The name is a modification to the name Emir.
Given name
Amir
- Al-Amir bi-Ahkami l-Lah, tenth Fatimid Caliph and recognised as the 20th imam by the Mustaali Ismaili Shi'a sect
- Amir Abdur-Rahim, American basketball coach
- Amir Khosrow Afshar, Iranian diplomat
- Amir Ali (disambiguation), several people
- Amir Amini (academic), American academic
- Amir Amini (basketball), Iranian basketball player
- Amir Bageria, Canadian actor
- Amir Bagheri, Iranian chess grandmaster
- Amir Bell, American basketball player in the Israel Basketball Premier League
- Amir Blumenfeld, American-Israeli comedian/actor
- Ameer Bux Bhutto, Pakistani politician
- Amir Celestin, American basketball player
- Amir Khasru Mahmud Chowdhury, politician and government minister
- Amir Coffey, American basketball player
- Amir Derakh, American musician
- Amir Eshel, Commander in Chief of the Israeli Air Force
- Amir Farshad Ebrahimi, former member of Ansar-e Hezbollah and currently a peace and human rights activist living in Germany
- Amir Gal-Or, Israeli businessman and the managing partner of Infinity Group
- Amir Ganiel, Israeli swimming champion and record holder
- Amir Ghalenoei, Iranian football coach and former player
- Amir Haddad, Israeli French singer and songwriter
- Amir Hamed, Uruguayan writer and translator of Lebanese descent
- Amir Hamza (disambiguation), several people
- Amir Hashemi, Iranian footballer
- Amir Mirza Hekmati, American alleged CIA operative
- Amir Hinton, American basketball player
- Amir-Abbas Hoveyda, Iranian economist and politician
- Amir Jangoo, Trinidad and Tobago and West Indies cricket player
- Amir Johnson, American basketball player
- Amir Mahdi Jule, Iranian screenwriter and actor
- Amir Karara, Egyptian actor
- Amir Karić, Bosnian-Slovenian footballer
- Amir Reza Khadem, Iranian wrestler
- Amir Khan (disambiguation), several people
- Amir Khusrau, Indian musician, scholar and poet
- Amir Kror Suri, aka Jahan Pahlawan, Pashtun national history figure and a governor of Mandesh in Ghor
- Amir Husain Al-Kurdi, 16th-century Kurdish governor of Jeddah, admiral of Amir Mahdi Jule, Iranian screenwriter and actorthe Mamluk fleet
- Amir Mohebbian, Iranian politician, journalist and political analyst
- Amir Mohebi, Iranian footballer
- Amir Mokri, Iranian cinematographer
- Amir Muchtari, Israeli basketball player
- Amir Muhammad (director), Malaysian film director and producer
- Amir Nachumi, Israeli Air Force general
- Amir Naderi, Iranian film director
- Amir Ohana, Israeli politician
- Amir Peretz, Moroccan-born Israeli politician
- Amir Hossein Rabii, Iranian Air Force commander
- Amir Sadollah, American mixed martial arts fighter
- Amir Sarkhosh, Iranian snooker player
- Amir Siddiq, American gridiron football player
- Amir Slama, Brazilian fashion designer
- Amir Spahić, Bosnian footballer
- Ameer Speed, American football player
- Amir Tibon, Israeli journalist
- Amir Vahedi, Iranian-born American professional poker player
- Amir Wilson, British actor
Ameer
- Ameer Ali (disambiguation), several people
- Ameer Sultan, Tamil film director
- Ameer Vann, former member of boy band Brockhampton
- Abdul Ameer Yousef Habeeb, Iraqi journalist
- Amir Shurush, Arab Israeli comedian
Fictional characters
- Amir, the protagonist in The Kite Runner
- Amir Kaffarov, an antagonist in Battlefield 3, a 2011 video game
- Amir Kazim, in A Wedding, a 2016 film
Middle name
- Khalid Amir Khan, Pakistani diplomat and politician
- Mohammad Amir Khan (disambiguation), several people
- Syed Ameer Ali, Indian scholar who taught at Aligarh Muslim University
- Tengku Amir Hamzah, Indonesian poet
- Tamino (musician), Belgian-Egyptian singer, songwriter and musician
Surname
- Eldad Amir, Israeli Olympic competitive sailor
- Eli Amir, Israeli writer
- Menashe Amir, Iranian-born Israeli Persian-language broadcaster
- Mohammad Amir, Pakistani cricketer banned for spot-fixing
- Nina Amir, Israeli Olympic sports sailor
- Yigal Amir, assassin of Prime Minister of Israel Yitzhak Rabin
- Zaïd Amir, Comorian footballer
- Zainab Abdul Amir, Bahraini politician and journalist
Fictional characters
- Yusuf Amir, a character from the Grand Theft Auto game series