Meaning not yet researched.
Omar: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 1,333 in 2025. Its best rank was #131 in 2006.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #131 in 2006; #260 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Omar in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#260 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2006, at #131.
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Omar: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 1,333 boys in 2025. Peak: #131 in 2006 · most boys in one year: 3,216 (2007).
In 2025, 1,333 US boys were named Omar, making it the 260th most common boys’ name of the year, the same rank as in 2024. That is 12 fewer than the 1,345 boys named Omar in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #131, reached in 2006. The most boys given the name in a single year was 3,216, in 2007. For comparison, it was #217 in 2015 and #862 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Omar in every one of the 146 years from 1880 to 2025; in 1880 there were 14 babies with the name. In all, 106,894 US babies have been given the name, 0.4% of them girls and 99.5% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 28,224 babies named Omar.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 14,577 US boys were named Omar; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 1,735. In 2025 that was about 1 in 1,281 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Omar ranked highest in Michigan in 2025, at #162 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Amar (5,334 babies since 1880), Umar (3,205 babies since 1880) and Omer (8,923 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Oumar, Umair and Omarr 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: Oumar (761), Umair (588), Omarr (488), Umer (380), Omair (336), Omir (275), Omere (236), Omare (88), Omeir (35), Ommar (26), Umayr (19), Ohmer (13), 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 Omar 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 14 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Michigan | 63 | #162 | #214 |
| Illinois | 68 | #176 | #178 |
| California | 225 | #177 | #148 |
| Washington | 47 | #187 | #272 |
| Texas | 202 | #188 | #147 |
| New Mexico | 11 | #190 | #139 |
| Delaware | 6 | #195 | — |
| New York | 103 | #195 | #164 |
| Virginia | 43 | #207 | #149 |
| Arizona | 41 | #208 | #135 |
| New Jersey | 43 | #223 | #162 |
| Pennsylvania | 47 | #253 | #215 |
| Maine | 5 | #260 | — |
| Nevada | 12 | #260 | #240 |
| Connecticut | 13 | #261 | #231 |
| Ohio | 47 | #267 | #251 |
| Kansas | 13 | #291 | #330 |
| Minnesota | 21 | #300 | #204 |
| Florida | 58 | #335 | #201 |
| Maryland | 16 | #340 | #282 |
| Oregon | 12 | #343 | #303 |
| Georgia | 34 | #354 | #309 |
| Oklahoma | 13 | #370 | #348 |
| Massachusetts | 14 | #374 | #185 |
| North Carolina | 29 | #394 | #365 |
| South Carolina | 13 | #405 | #570 |
| Wisconsin | 13 | #407 | #277 |
| Colorado | 14 | #434 | #243 |
| Nebraska | 5 | #486 | — |
| Tennessee | 16 | #497 | #313 |
| Indiana | 13 | #537 | #531 |
| Missouri | 11 | #545 | #482 |
| Iowa | 6 | #556 | #496 |
| Kentucky | 8 | #560 | #450 |
| Louisiana | 8 | #575 | #453 |
| Utah | 7 | #602 | #356 |
| Alabama | 6 | #740 | #608 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 1,333 | #260 |
| 2024 | — | — | 1,345 | #260 |
| 2023 | — | — | 1,311 | #263 |
| 2022 | — | — | 1,453 | #243 |
| 2021 | — | — | 1,304 | #267 |
| 2020 | — | — | 1,386 | #254 |
| 2019 | — | — | 1,485 | #246 |
| 2018 | — | — | 1,583 | #241 |
| 2017 | — | — | 1,642 | #232 |
| 2016 | — | — | 1,735 | #223 |
| 2015 | 5 | #18,448 | 1,836 | #217 |
| 2014 | 5 | #18,542 | 1,808 | #214 |
| 2013 | — | — | 1,882 | #204 |
| 2012 | — | — | 1,921 | #199 |
| 2011 | — | — | 1,886 | #193 |
| 2010 | 5 | #19,118 | 2,167 | #175 |
| 2009 | — | — | 2,549 | #154 |
| 2008 | 5 | #19,722 | 2,864 | #144 |
| 2007 | 7 | #15,073 | 3,216 | #132 |
| 2006 | 9 | #12,172 | 3,105 | #131 |
| 2005 | — | — | 2,967 | #135 |
| 2004 | 10 | #10,497 | 2,725 | #148 |
| 2003 | 8 | #12,111 | 2,705 | #151 |
| 2002 | 6 | #14,929 | 2,622 | #151 |
| 2001 | 7 | #13,122 | 2,723 | #146 |
| 2000 | 8 | #11,512 | 2,688 | #146 |
| 1999 | 7 | #12,319 | 2,671 | #143 |
| 1998 | — | — | 2,452 | #146 |
| 1997 | 6 | #13,284 | 2,291 | #154 |
| 1996 | 7 | #11,458 | 2,518 | #140 |
| 1995 | 18 | #5,381 | 2,506 | #139 |
| 1994 | 19 | #5,180 | 2,419 | #146 |
| 1993 | 13 | #6,934 | 2,453 | #140 |
| 1992 | 21 | #4,809 | 2,306 | #144 |
| 1991 | 15 | #6,170 | 2,135 | #149 |
| 1990 | 13 | #6,751 | 1,978 | #158 |
| 1989 | 15 | #5,762 | 1,631 | #182 |
| 1988 | 12 | #6,559 | 1,426 | #192 |
| 1987 | 15 | #5,246 | 1,287 | #201 |
| 1986 | 16 | #4,894 | 1,313 | #194 |
| 1985 | 8 | #8,088 | 1,216 | #199 |
| 1984 | 9 | #7,233 | 1,271 | #193 |
| 1983 | 12 | #5,711 | 1,274 | #192 |
| 1982 | 12 | #5,796 | 1,385 | #183 |
| 1981 | 16 | #4,669 | 1,433 | #174 |
| 1980 | 13 | #5,450 | 1,445 | #170 |
| 1979 | 16 | #4,552 | 1,381 | #173 |
| 1978 | 13 | #5,124 | 1,293 | #181 |
| 1977 | 17 | #4,186 | 1,226 | #193 |
| 1976 | 16 | #4,099 | 1,137 | #198 |
| 1975 | 16 | #4,078 | 892 | #229 |
| 1974 | 9 | #6,095 | 809 | #249 |
| 1973 | 12 | #4,764 | 786 | #250 |
| 1972 | — | — | 645 | #288 |
| 1971 | 11 | #5,027 | 535 | #345 |
| 1970 | 6 | #7,708 | 552 | #345 |
| 1969 | — | — | 448 | #370 |
| 1968 | — | — | 316 | #432 |
| 1967 | 7 | #5,878 | 247 | #480 |
| 1966 | — | — | 200 | #541 |
| 1965 | — | — | 150 | #621 |
| 1964 | — | — | 139 | #659 |
| 1963 | — | — | 116 | #729 |
| 1962 | — | — | 109 | #737 |
| 1961 | — | — | 115 | #717 |
| 1960 | — | — | 96 | #780 |
| 1959 | — | — | 91 | #805 |
| 1958 | — | — | 85 | #818 |
| 1957 | — | — | 77 | #859 |
| 1956 | — | — | 82 | #828 |
| 1955 | — | — | 67 | #914 |
| 1954 | — | — | 77 | #828 |
| 1953 | — | — | 70 | #861 |
| 1952 | — | — | 63 | #893 |
| 1951 | — | — | 63 | #890 |
| 1950 | — | — | 64 | #862 |
| 1949 | — | — | 64 | #862 |
| 1948 | — | — | 55 | #942 |
| 1947 | — | — | 48 | #1,047 |
| 1946 | — | — | 52 | #930 |
| 1945 | — | — | 48 | #937 |
| 1944 | — | — | 45 | #970 |
| 1943 | — | — | 43 | #1,033 |
| 1942 | 5 | #5,182 | 40 | #1,084 |
| 1941 | — | — | 48 | #924 |
| 1940 | — | — | 43 | #990 |
| 1939 | — | — | 38 | #1,047 |
| 1938 | — | — | 36 | #1,089 |
| 1937 | — | — | 51 | #864 |
| 1936 | — | — | 44 | #937 |
| 1935 | — | — | 60 | #802 |
| 1934 | — | — | 49 | #907 |
| 1933 | — | — | 62 | #779 |
| 1932 | — | — | 67 | #777 |
| 1931 | — | — | 47 | #970 |
| 1930 | — | — | 65 | #807 |
| 1929 | 6 | #4,452 | 63 | #824 |
| 1928 | — | — | 78 | #731 |
| 1927 | — | — | 79 | #741 |
| 1926 | — | — | 71 | #773 |
| 1925 | — | — | 90 | #677 |
| 1924 | — | — | 86 | #713 |
| 1923 | — | — | 81 | #727 |
| 1922 | — | — | 81 | #735 |
| 1921 | — | — | 96 | #662 |
| 1920 | — | — | 88 | #683 |
| 1919 | — | — | 116 | #557 |
| 1918 | — | — | 109 | #584 |
| 1917 | — | — | 80 | #673 |
| 1916 | — | — | 92 | #610 |
| 1915 | — | — | 70 | #704 |
| 1914 | — | — | 59 | #663 |
| 1913 | — | — | 52 | #613 |
| 1912 | — | — | 44 | #633 |
| 1911 | — | — | 21 | #701 |
| 1910 | — | — | 13 | #917 |
| 1909 | — | — | 14 | #795 |
| 1908 | — | — | 10 | #930 |
| 1907 | — | — | 15 | #691 |
| 1906 | — | — | 12 | #742 |
| 1905 | — | — | 16 | #608 |
| 1904 | — | — | 8 | #941 |
| 1903 | — | — | 15 | #589 |
| 1902 | — | — | 8 | #908 |
| 1901 | — | — | 8 | #835 |
| 1900 | — | — | 10 | #888 |
| 1899 | — | — | 17 | #469 |
| 1898 | — | — | 12 | #653 |
| 1897 | — | — | 19 | #451 |
| 1896 | — | — | 11 | #710 |
| 1895 | — | — | 22 | #424 |
| 1894 | — | — | 10 | #713 |
| 1893 | — | — | 14 | #528 |
| 1892 | — | — | 16 | #514 |
| 1891 | — | — | 5 | #1,083 |
| 1890 | — | — | 16 | #478 |
| 1889 | — | — | 11 | #613 |
| 1888 | — | — | 19 | #438 |
| 1887 | — | — | 10 | #620 |
| 1886 | — | — | 14 | #502 |
| 1885 | — | — | 15 | #495 |
| 1884 | — | — | 6 | #941 |
| 1883 | — | — | 13 | #512 |
| 1882 | — | — | 11 | #598 |
| 1881 | — | — | 11 | #554 |
| 1880 | — | — | 14 | #496 |
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).