Ammar

#1,241 for boys in 2025, 161 births

Peak · boys
2025 · 161 births
Debut · boys
7 births
In top 100 · boys
never
of 146 years
Total births · boys
3,083
since 1977

Ammar over time

boys

Rank among boys' names. Ammar has never cracked the top 1,000 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201977boysat peak
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

Show data table
Yearboys
rankbirths
2025#1,241161
2024#1,510118
2023#1,576110
2022#1,523118
2021#1,72194
2020#1,62199
2019#1,450120
2018#1,65797
2017#1,455117
2016#1,366130
2015#1,307135
2014#1,402120
2013#1,483110
2012#1,65793
2011#1,96870
2010#1,76884
2009#1,86178
2008#2,06267
2007#1,74185
2006#2,01066
2005#1,75275
2004#1,73173
2003#1,71771
2002#1,79264
2001#1,69968
2000#1,60973
1999#2,09845
1998#1,81155
1997#1,79053
1996#2,38033
1995#2,44431
1994#2,50230
1993#1,93342
1992#2,30332
1991#1,91940
1990#2,86522
1989#1,95337
1988#2,19728
1987#3,07216
1986#2,36023
1985#3,40113
1984#3,92510
1983#3,07114
1982#2,70917
1981#3,41212
1980#5,5256
1979#3,16813
1978#4,1578
1977#4,5827
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First appearance
1977

The first year at least five boys were named Ammar! It came in at #4,582, and was given to 7 baby boys.


Quietest stretch: 1980, when fewer than 7 boys a year got the name.

Where Ammar is popular in 1977

No state had 5 or more boys named Ammar in 1977, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.

See more about Ammar
Momentum · boys
Rising
  • 269 spots since 2024 (#1,510 → #1,241)
  • 380 spots since 2020 (#1,621 → #1,241)
  • 66 spots since 2015 (#1,307 → #1,241)
Rise & fade · boys
48 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1977
  • Peaked 2025 at #1,241 (161 births)
  • Not yet halved from its peak
Top of the charts · boys
Never in the top 1,000
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · boys
1 in 10,609
  • Highest: 1 in 10,609 boys born in 2025 were named Ammar (0.01%)
Era · boys
The 2010s
  • 34.9% of all boys named Ammar (1,076) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1970s28#3,168 (1979)#3,969
1980s176#1,953 (1989)#3,163
1990s383#1,790 (1997)#2,205
2000s720#1,609 (2000)#1,797
2010s1,076#1,307 (2015)#1,551
2020s700#1,241 (2025)#1,532

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.

Ammar in 1977

boys
#4,582
7 births · 1 in 234,746 boys

Top boys' names in 1977

  1. #1Michael67,587
  2. #2Jason55,631
  3. #3Christopher46,721
  4. #4David40,515
  5. #5James40,040
  6. #6Robert34,214
  7. #7John34,195
  8. #8Brian32,492
  9. #9Matthew31,965
  10. #10Joseph26,483
  11. #4,582Ammar7
More about 1977

boys

1,643,220 boys got a published name in 1977; 1 in 234,746 of them was named Ammar, which outranked 33.2% of the 6,861 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 24.9% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Ammar
  1. #4,164Zephaniah8
  2. #4,164Ziad8
  3. #4,164Zion8
  4. #4,582Ammar7
  5. #4,582Abasi7
  6. #4,582Abdalla7
  7. #4,582Abhay7
  8. #5,123Aamir6
  9. #5,123Aaryn6
  10. #5,123Abbas6

Tied with 540 names at #4,582; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1976
Risers
  1. ↑ 5,102Lavar#5,587 → #485
  2. ↑ 4,753Kinte#5,587 → #834
  3. ↑ 969Jedidiah#1,873 → #904
  4. ↑ 811Conor#1,748 → #937
  5. ↑ 704Amin#1,608 → #904
Fallers
  1. ↓ 427Jerimy#963 → #1,390
  2. ↓ 322Demetrios#990 → #1,312
  3. ↓ 246Nakia#790 → #1,036
  4. ↓ 244Baron#977 → #1,221
  5. ↓ 235Hakim#878 → #1,113

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 1977 →