Meaning not yet researched.
Amar: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 132 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,103 in 2003.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,103 in 2003; #1,388 in 2025. About 89% of babies named Amar in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,388 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2003, at #1,103.
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Amar: US boys and girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 132 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,103 in 2003 · most boys in one year: 178 (2023).
In 2025, 132 US boys were named Amar, making it the 1,388th most common boys’ name of the year, down 147 places from #1,241 in 2024. That is 28 fewer than the 160 boys named Amar in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,103, reached in 2003. The most boys given the name in a single year was 178, in 2023. For comparison, it was #1,174 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
In 2025, 17 US girls were named Amar, making it the 6,560th most common girls’ name of the year, up 395 places from #6,955 in 2024. That is 1 more than the 16 girls named Amar in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #5,358, reached in 2017. That year also had the most girls given the name: 24. For comparison, it was #8,485 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Amar in 58 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1967 with 9 babies. In all, 5,334 US babies have been given the name, 6.5% of them girls and 94% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 1,608 babies named Amar.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,522 US boys were named Amar; the busiest of those years was 2023, with 178. In 2025 that was about 1 in 12,940 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Amar ranked highest in Minnesota in 2025, at #720 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Omar (106,894 babies since 1880), Amari (53,282 babies since 1880), Amaru (1,025 babies since 1880) and Amir (56,257 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Ammaar are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Rare spellings summarised here: Ammaar (239).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Amar in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 41 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Minnesota | 6 | #720 | #790 |
| Michigan | 8 | #829 | #980 |
| New York | 14 | #916 | #720 |
| New Jersey | 6 | #921 | — |
| Ohio | 6 | #1,116 | #989 |
| Florida | 10 | #1,195 | #770 |
| Georgia | 6 | #1,221 | #1,220 |
| California | 15 | #1,246 | #1,319 |
| Illinois | 5 | #1,291 | #896 |
| Texas | 10 | #1,656 | #1,651 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 17 | #6,560 | 132 | #1,388 |
| 2024 | 16 | #6,955 | 160 | #1,241 |
| 2023 | 18 | #6,425 | 178 | #1,163 |
| 2022 | 22 | #5,652 | 133 | #1,393 |
| 2021 | 15 | #7,278 | 171 | #1,161 |
| 2020 | 13 | #8,002 | 143 | #1,281 |
| 2019 | 13 | #8,169 | 167 | #1,162 |
| 2018 | 13 | #8,186 | 143 | #1,283 |
| 2017 | 24 | #5,358 | 156 | #1,192 |
| 2016 | 15 | #7,626 | 139 | #1,304 |
| 2015 | 13 | #8,485 | 158 | #1,174 |
| 2014 | 16 | #7,328 | 155 | #1,188 |
| 2013 | 18 | #6,741 | 145 | #1,234 |
| 2012 | 12 | #9,148 | 144 | #1,226 |
| 2011 | 7 | #13,445 | 138 | #1,250 |
| 2010 | 5 | #17,180 | 127 | #1,341 |
| 2009 | 6 | #15,376 | 125 | #1,367 |
| 2008 | 5 | #17,698 | 135 | #1,284 |
| 2007 | 7 | #14,023 | 140 | #1,255 |
| 2006 | 6 | #15,264 | 138 | #1,214 |
| 2005 | 11 | #9,496 | 147 | #1,116 |
| 2004 | 7 | #12,842 | 135 | #1,159 |
| 2003 | 9 | #10,477 | 139 | #1,103 |
| 2002 | — | — | 115 | #1,205 |
| 2001 | 10 | #9,398 | 110 | #1,216 |
| 2000 | 12 | #8,061 | 88 | #1,408 |
| 1999 | 9 | #9,526 | 79 | #1,457 |
| 1998 | 6 | #12,527 | 91 | #1,301 |
| 1997 | — | — | 59 | #1,673 |
| 1996 | — | — | 53 | #1,741 |
| 1995 | — | — | 47 | #1,841 |
| 1994 | — | — | 53 | #1,691 |
| 1993 | 5 | #13,531 | 32 | #2,352 |
| 1992 | 5 | #13,388 | 42 | #1,916 |
| 1991 | — | — | 44 | #1,798 |
| 1990 | 10 | #7,903 | 55 | #1,530 |
| 1989 | — | — | 39 | #1,892 |
| 1988 | — | — | 58 | #1,355 |
| 1987 | — | — | 49 | #1,467 |
| 1986 | — | — | 55 | #1,321 |
| 1985 | — | — | 51 | #1,355 |
| 1984 | — | — | 50 | #1,322 |
| 1983 | — | — | 52 | #1,276 |
| 1982 | — | — | 39 | #1,566 |
| 1981 | — | — | 52 | #1,272 |
| 1980 | — | — | 54 | #1,258 |
| 1979 | — | — | 34 | #1,671 |
| 1978 | — | — | 48 | #1,299 |
| 1977 | — | — | 26 | #1,907 |
| 1976 | — | — | 36 | #1,503 |
| 1975 | — | — | 35 | #1,505 |
| 1974 | — | — | 26 | #1,792 |
| 1973 | — | — | 22 | #1,929 |
| 1972 | — | — | 15 | #2,425 |
| 1971 | — | — | 6 | #4,389 |
| 1970 | — | — | 10 | #3,075 |
| 1968 | — | — | 7 | #3,373 |
| 1967 | — | — | 9 | #2,767 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).