Omar

What Omar means

Meaning not yet sourced. Wiktionary has no word-by-word meaning for Omar yet, and we don’t write our own.

Editor’s note Down from #217 in 2015 to #260 in 2025 in the US Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Omar?

US: Falling: down from #217 in 2015. England & Wales: Rising: up from #217 in 2015.

Biggest US share so far: 2007, when 3,216 boys got the name (#131 that year). First in the US records in 1880.

How common

• About 1 in 1,281 baby boys in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 819 baby boys in England and Wales in 2025
• About 1 in 854 baby boys in Scotland in 2025

“1 in N” divides by all listed births for that sex. The US list leaves out names given to fewer than 5 babies, and the UK lists leave out names given to 2 or fewer, so the real figure is a little rarer than shown.

Where in the US

Most popular in DE (2.04 per 1,000 boys), NM (1.69 per 1,000 boys), MI (1.57 per 1,000 boys) in 2025.

SSA state data, 2025. Share of all listed boys born in each state.

US vs UK

Omar is #260 in the US and #157 in England & Wales (2025).

Same sex as this page (boys). SSA (US), ONS (England and Wales), NRS (Scotland).

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 99.9+% of US babies named Omar were boys.

Counts below the publishing threshold (US 5, UK 3) are not included.

How to say it

IPA from Wiktionary.

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Amir3,297 US · 238 E&W
• Emir546 US · 75 E&W
• Umar180 US · 214 E&W
• Ammar161 US · 63 E&W
• Amar132 US · 55 E&W
• Omer70 US · 48 E&W
• Amare59 US · 3 E&W
• Amor45 US · 5 E&W

Names that sound the same and differ by a letter or two, with baby counts for the same sex. US and E&W counts.

If you like Omar

Boys

• Ryan#99Editor’s note Peaked in the US in 1985, with 29,905 babies; 3,532 in 2025
• Malik#437Editor’s note Peaked in the US in 1996, with 4,026 babies; 724 in 2025
• Ahmad#669“praiseworthy”^*
• Ahmed#703Variant of Ahmad, meaning “praiseworthy”^*
• Nasir#486Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #486 vs #2,133 in 2025
• Mohamed#527Variant of Muhammad, meaning “praised, commendable, laudable”^*

For a sister

• Yasmin#955Editor’s note Peaked in the US in 2006, with 1,018 babies; 269 in 2025
• Sarah#90“masters, princes”^*
• Nadia#565“Nadia; tender”^*
• Fatima#330Spanish and Portuguese, meaning “abstainer”^*
• Aaliyah#101Editor’s note First shows up in US records in 1976, with 18 babies
• Aliyah#263“ascent”^*

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under Arabic, whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Omar’s. Rank is US 2025.