Ammar
#1,241 for boys in 2025, 161 births
- Peak · boys
- 2025 · 161 births
- Debut · boys
- 7 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 3,083since 1977
Ammar over time
Rank among boys' names. Ammar has never cracked the top 1,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | boys | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #1,241 | 161 |
| 2024 | #1,510 | 118 |
| 2023 | #1,576 | 110 |
| 2022 | #1,523 | 118 |
| 2021 | #1,721 | 94 |
| 2020 | #1,621 | 99 |
| 2019 | #1,450 | 120 |
| 2018 | #1,657 | 97 |
| 2017 | #1,455 | 117 |
| 2016 | #1,366 | 130 |
| 2015 | #1,307 | 135 |
| 2014 | #1,402 | 120 |
| 2013 | #1,483 | 110 |
| 2012 | #1,657 | 93 |
| 2011 | #1,968 | 70 |
| 2010 | #1,768 | 84 |
| 2009 | #1,861 | 78 |
| 2008 | #2,062 | 67 |
| 2007 | #1,741 | 85 |
| 2006 | #2,010 | 66 |
| 2005 | #1,752 | 75 |
| 2004 | #1,731 | 73 |
| 2003 | #1,717 | 71 |
| 2002 | #1,792 | 64 |
| 2001 | #1,699 | 68 |
| 2000 | #1,609 | 73 |
| 1999 | #2,098 | 45 |
| 1998 | #1,811 | 55 |
| 1997 | #1,790 | 53 |
| 1996 | #2,380 | 33 |
| 1995 | #2,444 | 31 |
| 1994 | #2,502 | 30 |
| 1993 | #1,933 | 42 |
| 1992 | #2,303 | 32 |
| 1991 | #1,919 | 40 |
| 1990 | #2,865 | 22 |
| 1989 | #1,953 | 37 |
| 1988 | #2,197 | 28 |
| 1987 | #3,072 | 16 |
| 1986 | #2,360 | 23 |
| 1985 | #3,401 | 13 |
| 1984 | #3,925 | 10 |
| 1983 | #3,071 | 14 |
| 1982 | #2,709 | 17 |
| 1981 | #3,412 | 12 |
| 1980 | #5,525 | 6 |
| 1979 | #3,168 | 13 |
| 1978 | #4,157 | 8 |
| 1977 | #4,582 | 7 |
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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 2012
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- New Jersey#641 · 1 in 4,608
- Illinois#960 · 1 in 8,315
- Michigan#1,021 · 1 in 9,528
- Texas#1,371 · 1 in 16,149
- California#1,714 · 1 in 25,610
Best ever in a state: #503 in Minnesota, 2021.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| New Jersey | #641 | 9 | 1 in 4,608 |
| Illinois | #960 | 8 | 1 in 8,315 |
| Michigan | #1,021 | 5 | 1 in 9,528 |
| Texas | #1,371 | 11 | 1 in 16,149 |
| California | #1,714 | 9 | 1 in 25,610 |
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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 Ammar
- 269 spots since 2024 (#1,510 → #1,241)
- 380 spots since 2020 (#1,621 → #1,241)
- 66 spots since 2015 (#1,307 → #1,241)
- Debuted 1977
- Peaked 2025 at #1,241 (161 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 10,609 boys born in 2025 were named Ammar (0.01%)
- 34.9% of all boys named Ammar (1,076) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 28 | #3,168 (1979) | #3,969 |
| 1980s | 176 | #1,953 (1989) | #3,163 |
| 1990s | 383 | #1,790 (1997) | #2,205 |
| 2000s | 720 | #1,609 (2000) | #1,797 |
| 2010s | 1,076 | #1,307 (2015) | #1,551 |
| 2020s | 700 | #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 2012
Top boys' names in 2012
More about 2012
boys
1,896,946 boys got a published name in 2012; 1 in 20,397 of them was named Ammar, which outranked 88.4% of the 14,250 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.9% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,637Talen94
- #1,637Wes94
- #1,637Wilmer94
- #1,657Ammar93
- #1,657Archie93
- #1,657Avan93
- #1,657Boaz93
- #1,668Abdullahi92
- #1,668Avrohom92
- #1,668Calen92
Tied with 10 names at #1,657; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.