Meaning not yet researched.
Omari: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 397 in 2025. Its best rank was #472 in 2018.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #472 in 2018; #687 in 2025. About 98% of babies named Omari in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#687 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2018, at #472.
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Omari: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 397 boys in 2025. Peak: #472 in 2018 · most boys in one year: 618 (2018).
In 2025, 397 US boys were named Omari, making it the 687th most common boys’ name of the year, down 74 places from #613 in 2024. That is 68 fewer than the 465 boys named Omari in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #472, reached in 2018. That year also had the most boys given the name: 618. For comparison, it was #508 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Omari in 55 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1971 with 7 babies. In all, 13,557 US babies have been given the name, 2.9% of them girls and 97% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 4,777 babies named Omari.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 5,456 US boys were named Omari; the busiest of those years was 2018, with 618. In 2025 that was about 1 in 4,302 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Omari ranked highest in South Carolina in 2025, at #339 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Rarer spellings such as Omaria, Omarie and Omaree 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: Omaria (227), Omarie (218), Omaree (161), Omauri (128), Omarii (123), Omarri (82), Omario (74), Omyri (16), Omaury (13), Omiri (13), Omariah (12), Umari (11), 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 Omari 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 25 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| South Carolina | 16 | #339 | #338 |
| Georgia | 31 | #383 | #310 |
| Connecticut | 6 | #477 | #377 |
| North Carolina | 22 | #483 | #401 |
| Florida | 38 | #486 | #335 |
| Mississippi | 6 | #506 | #228 |
| Michigan | 17 | #509 | #586 |
| Arkansas | 6 | #535 | — |
| New York | 30 | #540 | #314 |
| Alabama | 9 | #557 | #337 |
| New Jersey | 13 | #568 | #314 |
| Louisiana | 8 | #576 | #529 |
| Maryland | 8 | #616 | #283 |
| Tennessee | 11 | #659 | #447 |
| Ohio | 14 | #665 | #489 |
| Washington | 10 | #670 | #913 |
| Arizona | 8 | #758 | #857 |
| Virginia | 9 | #776 | #315 |
| Kentucky | 5 | #782 | — |
| Texas | 35 | #786 | #774 |
| Illinois | 11 | #788 | #481 |
| California | 30 | #825 | #777 |
| Missouri | 6 | #845 | #554 |
| Massachusetts | 5 | #867 | #604 |
| Pennsylvania | 9 | #898 | #407 |
| Indiana | 6 | #924 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 7 | #12,848 | 397 | #687 |
| 2024 | 5 | #17,066 | 465 | #613 |
| 2023 | 8 | #11,932 | 496 | #579 |
| 2022 | 11 | #9,518 | 555 | #536 |
| 2021 | 13 | #8,353 | 605 | #489 |
| 2020 | 18 | #6,568 | 585 | #500 |
| 2019 | 16 | #7,257 | 612 | #479 |
| 2018 | 11 | #9,657 | 618 | #472 |
| 2017 | 12 | #9,206 | 570 | #510 |
| 2016 | 12 | #9,288 | 553 | #532 |
| 2015 | 15 | #7,896 | 567 | #508 |
| 2014 | 15 | #7,970 | 341 | #710 |
| 2013 | 12 | #9,474 | 318 | #735 |
| 2012 | 14 | #8,523 | 334 | #710 |
| 2011 | 12 | #9,583 | 364 | #645 |
| 2010 | 13 | #9,113 | 368 | #656 |
| 2009 | 7 | #14,832 | 428 | #604 |
| 2008 | 19 | #7,012 | 479 | #549 |
| 2007 | 15 | #8,423 | 376 | #647 |
| 2006 | 13 | #9,140 | 302 | #716 |
| 2005 | 22 | #5,743 | 322 | #664 |
| 2004 | 20 | #6,148 | 399 | #570 |
| 2003 | 15 | #7,485 | 332 | #622 |
| 2002 | 17 | #6,618 | 256 | #700 |
| 2001 | 14 | #7,635 | 166 | #939 |
| 2000 | 11 | #9,004 | 166 | #925 |
| 1999 | 5 | #16,190 | 155 | #942 |
| 1998 | 5 | #15,919 | 172 | #851 |
| 1997 | 8 | #10,528 | 132 | #985 |
| 1996 | 9 | #9,363 | 107 | #1,119 |
| 1995 | 5 | #15,106 | 97 | #1,180 |
| 1994 | 10 | #8,608 | 108 | #1,077 |
| 1993 | 5 | #15,102 | 84 | #1,243 |
| 1992 | — | — | 86 | #1,219 |
| 1991 | — | — | 93 | #1,143 |
| 1990 | — | — | 93 | #1,114 |
| 1989 | — | — | 64 | #1,379 |
| 1988 | — | — | 67 | #1,257 |
| 1987 | — | — | 57 | #1,311 |
| 1986 | — | — | 63 | #1,212 |
| 1985 | — | — | 55 | #1,299 |
| 1984 | — | — | 56 | #1,235 |
| 1983 | — | — | 50 | #1,325 |
| 1982 | — | — | 67 | #1,123 |
| 1981 | — | — | 76 | #1,051 |
| 1980 | — | — | 91 | #942 |
| 1979 | 5 | #11,397 | 60 | #1,174 |
| 1978 | — | — | 75 | #1,002 |
| 1977 | — | — | 74 | #1,004 |
| 1976 | — | — | 50 | #1,234 |
| 1975 | — | — | 49 | #1,223 |
| 1974 | — | — | 47 | #1,227 |
| 1973 | — | — | 36 | #1,423 |
| 1972 | — | — | 13 | #2,779 |
| 1971 | — | — | 7 | #4,258 |
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).