Meaning not yet researched.
Homer: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 21 in 2025. Its best rank was #64 in 1893.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #64 in 1893; #4,769 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Homer in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#4,769 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1893, at #64.
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Homer: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 21 boys in 2025. Peak: #64 in 1893 · most boys in one year: 1,722 (1920).
In 2025, 21 US boys were named Homer, making it the 4,769th most common boys’ name of the year, down 650 places from #4,119 in 2024. That is 5 fewer than the 26 boys named Homer in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #64, reached in 1893. The most boys given the name in a single year was 1,722, in 1920. For comparison, it was #3,616 in 2015 and #288 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Homer in every one of the 146 years from 1880 to 2025; in 1880 there were 205 babies with the name. In all, 61,279 US babies have been given the name, 0.6% of them girls and 99% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1920s, with 15,297 babies named Homer.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 288 US boys were named Homer; the busiest of those years was 2023, with 39. In 2025 that was about 1 in 81,337 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Homero (3,763 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Homar, Omero and Hommer 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: Homar (565), Omero (474), Hommer (78).
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 Homer in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 21 | #4,769 |
| 2024 | — | — | 26 | #4,119 |
| 2023 | — | — | 39 | #3,142 |
| 2022 | — | — | 35 | #3,370 |
| 2021 | — | — | 32 | #3,532 |
| 2020 | — | — | 30 | #3,609 |
| 2019 | — | — | 23 | #4,387 |
| 2018 | — | — | 32 | #3,470 |
| 2017 | — | — | 26 | #4,029 |
| 2016 | — | — | 24 | #4,242 |
| 2015 | — | — | 30 | #3,616 |
| 2014 | — | — | 30 | #3,562 |
| 2013 | — | — | 20 | #4,693 |
| 2012 | — | — | 25 | #4,057 |
| 2011 | — | — | 21 | #4,564 |
| 2010 | — | — | 25 | #4,036 |
| 2009 | — | — | 13 | #6,564 |
| 2008 | — | — | 27 | #3,862 |
| 2007 | — | — | 22 | #4,419 |
| 2006 | — | — | 22 | #4,284 |
| 2005 | — | — | 19 | #4,538 |
| 2004 | — | — | 24 | #3,777 |
| 2003 | — | — | 9 | #7,474 |
| 2002 | — | — | 31 | #2,968 |
| 2001 | — | — | 18 | #4,358 |
| 2000 | — | — | 22 | #3,683 |
| 1999 | — | — | 27 | #3,054 |
| 1998 | — | — | 33 | #2,574 |
| 1997 | — | — | 29 | #2,701 |
| 1996 | — | — | 36 | #2,268 |
| 1995 | — | — | 32 | #2,419 |
| 1994 | — | — | 31 | #2,468 |
| 1993 | — | — | 29 | #2,537 |
| 1992 | — | — | 49 | #1,739 |
| 1991 | — | — | 39 | #1,964 |
| 1990 | — | — | 58 | #1,493 |
| 1989 | — | — | 50 | #1,595 |
| 1988 | — | — | 53 | #1,456 |
| 1987 | — | — | 55 | #1,349 |
| 1986 | — | — | 70 | #1,129 |
| 1985 | — | — | 79 | #1,036 |
| 1984 | — | — | 72 | #1,057 |
| 1983 | — | — | 86 | #949 |
| 1982 | — | — | 78 | #1,028 |
| 1981 | — | — | 98 | #902 |
| 1980 | — | — | 106 | #864 |
| 1979 | — | — | 99 | #879 |
| 1978 | — | — | 101 | #856 |
| 1977 | — | — | 111 | #811 |
| 1976 | — | — | 109 | #799 |
| 1975 | — | — | 112 | #786 |
| 1974 | — | — | 143 | #685 |
| 1973 | — | — | 119 | #735 |
| 1972 | — | — | 143 | #672 |
| 1971 | — | — | 189 | #606 |
| 1970 | — | — | 182 | #603 |
| 1969 | — | — | 193 | #563 |
| 1968 | — | — | 194 | #543 |
| 1967 | — | — | 173 | #575 |
| 1966 | — | — | 224 | #507 |
| 1965 | 5 | #6,890 | 230 | #503 |
| 1964 | — | — | 264 | #485 |
| 1963 | — | — | 254 | #504 |
| 1962 | — | — | 310 | #451 |
| 1961 | 5 | #6,943 | 326 | #447 |
| 1960 | — | — | 324 | #449 |
| 1959 | — | — | 374 | #411 |
| 1958 | 5 | #6,446 | 373 | #405 |
| 1957 | — | — | 409 | #381 |
| 1956 | — | — | 467 | #345 |
| 1955 | — | — | 412 | #355 |
| 1954 | — | — | 459 | #334 |
| 1953 | — | — | 480 | #322 |
| 1952 | — | — | 543 | #305 |
| 1951 | — | — | 537 | #299 |
| 1950 | 6 | #4,959 | 552 | #288 |
| 1949 | — | — | 589 | #276 |
| 1948 | 5 | #5,559 | 619 | #264 |
| 1947 | — | — | 641 | #266 |
| 1946 | 5 | #5,232 | 593 | #256 |
| 1945 | 5 | #4,836 | 641 | #216 |
| 1944 | 7 | #3,853 | 741 | #201 |
| 1943 | 11 | #2,929 | 802 | #201 |
| 1942 | — | — | 781 | #202 |
| 1941 | — | — | 776 | #189 |
| 1940 | 6 | #4,059 | 773 | #185 |
| 1939 | 6 | #3,966 | 785 | #180 |
| 1938 | — | — | 855 | #171 |
| 1937 | — | — | 889 | #165 |
| 1936 | 7 | #3,521 | 830 | #165 |
| 1935 | 9 | #3,021 | 821 | #170 |
| 1934 | 6 | #4,010 | 937 | #156 |
| 1933 | — | — | 965 | #150 |
| 1932 | 11 | #2,725 | 1,055 | #148 |
| 1931 | 9 | #3,076 | 1,104 | #144 |
| 1930 | 11 | #2,758 | 1,172 | #146 |
| 1929 | 13 | #2,497 | 1,206 | #141 |
| 1928 | 18 | #2,047 | 1,320 | #131 |
| 1927 | 18 | #2,133 | 1,371 | #129 |
| 1926 | 10 | #3,146 | 1,503 | #123 |
| 1925 | 16 | #2,324 | 1,544 | #116 |
| 1924 | 21 | #1,951 | 1,647 | #109 |
| 1923 | 11 | #3,009 | 1,545 | #113 |
| 1922 | 16 | #2,335 | 1,630 | #108 |
| 1921 | 17 | #2,231 | 1,657 | #105 |
| 1920 | 12 | #2,802 | 1,722 | #100 |
| 1919 | 11 | #2,887 | 1,547 | #104 |
| 1918 | 16 | #2,241 | 1,680 | #100 |
| 1917 | 9 | #3,205 | 1,552 | #102 |
| 1916 | 11 | #2,731 | 1,506 | #103 |
| 1915 | 12 | #2,460 | 1,487 | #98 |
| 1914 | 9 | #2,516 | 1,152 | #101 |
| 1913 | 7 | #2,660 | 987 | #96 |
| 1912 | — | — | 794 | #98 |
| 1911 | — | — | 419 | #95 |
| 1910 | 5 | #2,570 | 347 | #98 |
| 1909 | 6 | #2,069 | 313 | #92 |
| 1908 | — | — | 340 | #80 |
| 1907 | — | — | 312 | #84 |
| 1906 | — | — | 267 | #86 |
| 1905 | — | — | 318 | #76 |
| 1904 | — | — | 256 | #87 |
| 1903 | — | — | 257 | #83 |
| 1902 | — | — | 269 | #80 |
| 1901 | — | — | 257 | #74 |
| 1900 | — | — | 326 | #80 |
| 1899 | — | — | 239 | #82 |
| 1898 | — | — | 246 | #85 |
| 1897 | — | — | 278 | #70 |
| 1896 | 5 | #1,683 | 258 | #79 |
| 1895 | — | — | 296 | #67 |
| 1894 | 5 | #1,577 | 273 | #73 |
| 1893 | — | — | 293 | #64 |
| 1892 | — | — | 301 | #68 |
| 1891 | — | — | 230 | #74 |
| 1890 | — | — | 223 | #77 |
| 1889 | — | — | 255 | #73 |
| 1888 | — | — | 256 | #76 |
| 1887 | — | — | 248 | #70 |
| 1886 | — | — | 224 | #79 |
| 1885 | — | — | 228 | #76 |
| 1884 | — | — | 216 | #79 |
| 1883 | — | — | 210 | #76 |
| 1882 | — | — | 190 | #85 |
| 1881 | — | — | 181 | #77 |
| 1880 | — | — | 205 | #76 |
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).