Nicknames for Amira
26 ideas for Amira — the short forms people actually use, plus cute, funny and gamer versions. Copy any of them in one click.
- Ami the everyday clip
- Mira the back clip, a name of its own
- Am the tightest clip
- Amoura the Levantine -oura affectionate ending
- Amirah the closer transliteration of the Arabic
- Amireh the Persian form
- Emira the Bosnian form
- Amoush the -oush affectionate ending
- Mimi the doubled affectionate form
- Amy the English clip used abroad
- Meera the South Asian name that shares the sound
- Amira-baji baji, the Urdu word for older sister
- Amira-beta beta, the affectionate word parents use
- Ami-Ami doubled, family and childhood use
- Mira-Mira the other doubling, family use
- Princess what the Arabic amira means
- Commander the other sense of the Arabic root
- A initial only, in group chats
- Ami-Bear the affectionate compound used abroad
- Amirita the Spanish-flavoured diminutive used abroad
- Ams the friend version used abroad
- Emir the masculine form, said as a tease
- Your Highness mock-formal, and the name earns it
- Amirinha the Portuguese affectionate form used in Brazil
- Amira-Bug family pet name used abroad
- Atomic Amira Shares the "A" sound with Amira.
About the name Amira.
Amira is the feminine of amir, and amir means one who commands: the same word English absorbed as emir and, by a longer maritime route, as admiral. So the name means princess or commander, with the second sense the more literal of the two. It is used across the Arab world and, in an entirely separate development, in Hebrew, where Amira relates to speech or to the top of a tree and has nothing to do with the Arabic. Say it a-MEE-ra, stress on the middle syllable, first vowel short and unstressed. In American records it has climbed steadily for four decades without a single sharp spike, which is a rarer pattern than it sounds.
Balanced and unhurried, three syllables with the weight in the middle, authoritative without being hard. Mira works as a clip and is a full name in several other languages, which gives it useful cover in a register. Ami is the warmer option and reads noticeably younger.
Most popular around 2020. Based on US birth records.
- Origin
- Arabic
- Meaning
- princess, female commander
- Syllables
- A·mi·ra
- Used as
- a girls’ name
Amira around the world.
These are the real forms Amira takes in other languages, which often make excellent nicknames in their own right.
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Amirah
Arabic
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Amireh
Persian
Famous people called Amira.
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Amira Casar
British and French actress
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Amira Willighagen
Dutch soprano who won a televised talent contest at nine
Questions about the name Amira
What does Amira mean? +
Princess, or more literally a female commander, from Arabic amir. The same root gives emir and the phrase amir al-bahr, commander of the sea, which passed through Latin and became the English admiral. The name is a title before it is an ornament.
Is Amira Arabic or Hebrew? +
Both, from unrelated roots. Arabic amira means princess; Hebrew Amira is usually connected to a word for speech or for a treetop. Israeli and Arab families both use the name in good numbers without either having borrowed it from the other.
How do you pronounce it? +
a-MEE-ra, long middle vowel with the stress on it, short unstressed first vowel. Some families in English-speaking countries use ah-MY-ra, which is not the Arabic pronunciation but has become established enough to count as its own variant.
What are the short forms? +
Mira is the common clip and stands alone as a name in Slavic, Hebrew and South Asian contexts. Ami is the affectionate version and Am appears in casual English. Arabic-speaking households rarely shorten it, since three syllables is unremarkable there.