Meaning not yet researched.
Kamar: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 20 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,623 in 2006.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,623 in 2006; #4,948 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Kamar in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#4,948 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2006, at #1,623.
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Kamar: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 20 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,623 in 2006 · most boys in one year: 89 (2006).
In 2025, 20 US boys were named Kamar, making it the 4,948th most common boys’ name of the year, down 573 places from #4,375 in 2024. That is 4 fewer than the 24 boys named Kamar in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,623, reached in 2006. That year also had the most boys given the name: 89. For comparison, it was #3,118 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Kamar in 48 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1976 with 8 babies. In all, 1,632 US babies have been given the name, 3.4% of them girls and 97% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 606 babies named Kamar.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 337 US boys were named Kamar; the busiest of those years was 2020, with 52. In 2025 that was about 1 in 85,404 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Rarer spellings such as Qamar, Kamir and Kamare 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.
No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Qamar (554), Kamir (317), Kamare (212), Camar (185), Kaimir (125), Kamarr (53), Kahmir (38), Kamor (29), Kamore (29), Kaymir (19), Camare (19), Kamour (18), and more.
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 Kamar 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 | — | — | 20 | #4,948 |
| 2024 | 6 | #14,316 | 24 | #4,375 |
| 2023 | — | — | 31 | #3,671 |
| 2022 | — | — | 36 | #3,307 |
| 2021 | — | — | 36 | #3,271 |
| 2020 | 7 | #12,782 | 52 | #2,485 |
| 2019 | 5 | #16,727 | 35 | #3,302 |
| 2018 | 7 | #13,105 | 33 | #3,417 |
| 2017 | 7 | #13,369 | 33 | #3,416 |
| 2016 | 5 | #17,520 | 37 | #3,135 |
| 2015 | — | — | 37 | #3,118 |
| 2014 | — | — | 42 | #2,832 |
| 2013 | 7 | #13,872 | 51 | #2,442 |
| 2012 | 7 | #14,210 | 53 | #2,402 |
| 2011 | — | — | 63 | #2,117 |
| 2010 | — | — | 78 | #1,861 |
| 2009 | — | — | 69 | #2,025 |
| 2008 | — | — | 74 | #1,940 |
| 2007 | — | — | 65 | #2,101 |
| 2006 | — | — | 89 | #1,623 |
| 2005 | — | — | 79 | #1,701 |
| 2004 | — | — | 55 | #2,146 |
| 2003 | — | — | 43 | #2,452 |
| 2002 | — | — | 49 | #2,179 |
| 2001 | — | — | 50 | #2,098 |
| 2000 | — | — | 33 | #2,774 |
| 1999 | — | — | 37 | #2,434 |
| 1998 | 5 | #15,269 | 19 | #3,780 |
| 1997 | — | — | 25 | #3,029 |
| 1996 | — | — | 32 | #2,460 |
| 1995 | — | — | 13 | #4,658 |
| 1994 | — | — | 12 | #4,959 |
| 1993 | — | — | 15 | #4,129 |
| 1992 | — | — | 11 | #5,061 |
| 1991 | — | — | 8 | #6,229 |
| 1990 | — | — | 19 | #3,239 |
| 1989 | — | — | 14 | #3,913 |
| 1988 | — | — | 5 | #7,900 |
| 1987 | — | — | 14 | #3,433 |
| 1986 | — | — | 15 | #3,205 |
| 1985 | — | — | 9 | #4,515 |
| 1984 | — | — | 16 | #2,886 |
| 1983 | — | — | 8 | #4,709 |
| 1982 | — | — | 5 | #6,859 |
| 1980 | — | — | 5 | #6,756 |
| 1979 | — | — | 7 | #5,115 |
| 1977 | — | — | 12 | #3,291 |
| 1976 | — | — | 8 | #4,208 |
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).