girls:
12 births since 1986
#5704 (0th percentile)
boys:
1.4k births since 1927
#3235 (29th percentile)
overall:
1.4k births since 1927
#6336 (18th percentile)
The name Amer is the #6,336 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,407 recorded births since 1927. This represents the 18.1% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 18.1% of all names). For boys, it ranks #3,235 (29.4% percentile) for all time with 1,395 births since 1927. For girls, it ranks #5,704 (0.2% percentile) for all time with 12 births since 1986.
Amer first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1927 (1927 for boys and 1986 for girls). Birth data for Amer is available in 52 out of the 97 years between 1927 and 2023 (52 years for boys and 2 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Amer has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.1% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Amer reached its peak popularity in 2003, achieving the 5.5% percentile (ranked #780) with 24 births per million. The name was most common in 2003, with 24 births per million (ranked 5.5% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2017, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Amer ranks #889 for boys (2.4% percentile) with 15 births per million, which is 62.0% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Amer reached its peak popularity in 1987, achieving the 0.3% percentile (ranked #800) with 4 births per million. The name was most common in 1987, with 4 births per million (ranked 0.3% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1987.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Amer".
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Our model has identified 8 different pronunciations for the name Amer. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 31.7% confident that Amer is pronounced as AY-mer, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is uh-MER, at 25.4% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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