Umar

What Umar means

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

Editor’s note More popular in England & Wales than the US: #234 vs #1,159 in 2025 Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Umar?

US: Rising: up from #1438 in 2015. England & Wales: Steady: #252 in 2015, #234 now.

Biggest US share so far: 2025, when 180 boys got the name (#1159 that year). First in the US records in 1951.

How common

• About 1 in 9,489 baby boys in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 1,271 baby boys in England and Wales in 2025
• About 1 in 2,182 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 IL (0.52 per 1,000 boys), NY (0.51 per 1,000 boys), PA (0.33 per 1,000 boys) in 2025.

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

US vs UK

Umar is #1159 in the US and #234 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 Umar were boys.

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

Other spellings

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Amir3,297 US · 238 E&W
• Omar1,333 US · 332 E&W
• Emir546 US · 75 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 Umar

Boys

• Muhammad#239“praised, commendable, laudable”^*
• Musa#469Editor’s note More popular in England & Wales than the US: #64 vs #469 in 2025
• Mustafa#760“the chosen one”^*
• Ali#306“high, exalted”^*
• Ibrahim#351Editor’s note Up from #436 in 2015 to #351 in 2025 in the US
• Laith#893Editor’s note More popular in England & Wales than the US: #254 vs #893 in 2025

For a sister

• Maryam#351Editor’s note More popular in England & Wales than the US: #52 vs #351 in 2025
• Salem#435Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #1,425 in 2015, #435 in 2025
• Amina#315“faithful, trustworthy”^*
• Zahra#538Editor’s note First shows up in US records in 1973, with 8 babies
• Noor#659“light”^*
• Zara#212“flower”^*

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 Umar’s. Rank is US 2025.