Amar
#6,546 for girls in 2025, 17 births · #1,388 for boys in 2025, 132 births
Given to boys 93.5% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2003 · 139 births
- Debut · boys
- 9 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 4,989since 1967
Amar over time
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #6,546 | 17 | #1,388 | 132 |
| 2024 | #6,932 | 16 | #1,241 | 160 |
| 2023 | #6,409 | 18 | #1,163 | 178 |
| 2022 | #5,638 | 22 | #1,393 | 133 |
| 2021 | #7,250 | 15 | #1,161 | 171 |
| 2020 | #7,969 | 13 | #1,280 | 143 |
| 2019 | #8,138 | 13 | #1,162 | 167 |
| 2018 | #8,146 | 13 | #1,282 | 143 |
| 2017 | #5,338 | 24 | #1,191 | 156 |
| 2016 | #7,602 | 15 | #1,304 | 139 |
| 2015 | #8,447 | 13 | #1,174 | 158 |
| 2014 | #7,302 | 16 | #1,188 | 155 |
| 2013 | #6,729 | 18 | #1,233 | 145 |
| 2012 | #9,109 | 12 | #1,226 | 144 |
| 2011 | #13,347 | 7 | #1,250 | 138 |
| 2010 | #16,992 | 5 | #1,341 | 127 |
| 2009 | #15,242 | 6 | #1,367 | 125 |
| 2008 | #17,504 | 5 | #1,284 | 135 |
| 2007 | #13,924 | 7 | #1,255 | 140 |
| 2006 | #15,152 | 6 | #1,214 | 138 |
| 2005 | #9,452 | 11 | #1,116 | 147 |
| 2004 | #12,761 | 7 | #1,159 | 135 |
| 2003 | #10,425 | 9 | #1,103 | 139 |
| 2002 | — | #1,204 | 115 | |
| 2001 | #9,351 | 10 | #1,216 | 110 |
| 2000 | #8,027 | 12 | #1,408 | 88 |
| 1999 | #9,479 | 9 | #1,457 | 79 |
| 1998 | #12,426 | 6 | #1,301 | 91 |
| 1997 | — | #1,672 | 59 | |
| 1996 | — | #1,740 | 53 | |
| 1995 | — | #1,841 | 47 | |
| 1994 | — | #1,689 | 53 | |
| 1993 | #13,442 | 5 | #2,347 | 32 |
| 1992 | #13,317 | 5 | #1,914 | 42 |
| 1991 | — | #1,798 | 44 | |
| 1990 | #7,880 | 10 | #1,530 | 55 |
| 1989 | — | #1,891 | 39 | |
| 1988 | — | #1,355 | 58 | |
| 1987 | — | #1,467 | 49 | |
| 1986 | — | #1,320 | 55 | |
| 1985 | — | #1,354 | 51 | |
| 1984 | — | #1,320 | 50 | |
| 1983 | — | #1,275 | 52 | |
| 1982 | — | #1,563 | 39 | |
| 1981 | — | #1,270 | 52 | |
| 1980 | — | #1,258 | 54 | |
| 1979 | — | #1,670 | 34 | |
| 1978 | — | #1,299 | 48 | |
| 1977 | — | #1,904 | 26 | |
| 1976 | — | #1,502 | 36 | |
| 1975 | — | #1,505 | 35 | |
| 1974 | — | #1,790 | 26 | |
| 1973 | — | #1,928 | 22 | |
| 1972 | — | #2,418 | 15 | |
| 1971 | — | #4,375 | 6 | |
| 1970 | — | #3,071 | 10 | |
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| 1968 | — | #3,365 | 7 | |
| 1967 | — | #2,760 | 9 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Amar! It came in at #2,760, and was given to 9 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1969, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.
Where Amar is popular in 2008
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
Hover or tap a state for its numbers.
- Mississippi#554 · 1 in 3,146
- New York#604 · 1 in 4,546
- North Carolina#885 · 1 in 7,959
- Virginia#940 · 1 in 8,595
- New Jersey#995 · 1 in 9,117
Best ever in a state: #187 in District of Columbia, 2021.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Mississippi | #554 | 5 | 1 in 3,146 |
| New York | #604 | 24 | 1 in 4,546 |
| North Carolina | #885 | 7 | 1 in 7,959 |
| Virginia | #940 | 5 | 1 in 8,595 |
| New Jersey | #995 | 5 | 1 in 9,117 |
| Florida | #1,057 | 10 | 1 in 10,051 |
| Illinois | #1,208 | 6 | 1 in 12,459 |
| California | #1,266 | 15 | 1 in 16,945 |
| Georgia | #1,274 | 5 | 1 in 12,237 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the boys born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Amar
- 147 spots since 2024 (#1,241 → #1,388)
- 108 spots since 2020 (#1,280 → #1,388)
- 214 spots since 2015 (#1,174 → #1,388)
- Debuted 1967
- Peaked 2003 at #1,103 (139 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 9,610 boys born in 2023 were named Amar (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 12,940 boys born in 2025 (0.01%)
- Its best rank, #1,103 in 2003, was only 1 in 14,211 (0.01%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 29.5% of all boys named Amar (1,472) were born in this decade
- The majority has never changed
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 16 | #2,760 (1967) | #3,063 |
| 1970s | 258 | #1,299 (1978) | #2,146 |
| 1980s | 499 | #1,258 (1980) | #1,407 |
| 1990s | 555 | #1,301 (1998) | #1,729 |
| 2000s | 1,272 | #1,103 (2003) | #1,233 |
| 2010s | 1,472 | #1,162 (2019) | #1,235 |
| 2020s | 917 | #1,161 (2021) | #1,271 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Amar in 2008
Top girls' names in 2008
Top boys' names in 2008
More about 2008
girls
1,890,938 girls got a published name in 2008; 1 in 378,188 of them was named Amar, which outranked 14.5% of the 20,482 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.5% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
boys
2,040,150 boys got a published name in 2008; 1 in 15,112 of them was named Amar, which outranked 91.2% of the 14,625 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 9.5% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,276Maxton136
- #1,276Otto136
- #1,276Talen136
- #1,284Amar135
- #1,284Aubrey135
- #1,284Beck135
- #1,284Chevy135
- #1,294Braulio134
- #1,294Darrion134
- #1,294Emil134
Tied with 9 names at #1,284; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.