Om

#2,167 for boys in 2025, 66 births

Peak · boys
2008 · 153 births
Debut · boys
5 births
In top 100 · boys
never
of 146 years
Total births · boys
2,321
since 1983

Om over time

boys

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

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201983peak #1,169, 2008boys
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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Yearboys
rankbirths
2025#2,16766
2024#2,15668
2023#2,22164
2022#2,40858
2021#1,93178
2020#1,91177
2019#2,06270
2018#1,90178
2017#1,64496
2016#1,77486
2015#1,75387
2014#1,73087
2013#1,64792
2012#1,551102
2011#1,516105
2010#1,415117
2009#1,214148
2008#1,169153
2007#1,423114
2006#1,467104
2005#1,334113
2004#1,183131
2003#1,190124
2002#2,24946
2001#3,72122
2000#5,29713
1999#7,1398
1998#6,3149
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First appearance
1983

The first year at least five boys were named Om! It came in at #6,238, and was given to 5 baby boys.


Quietest stretch: 1983–1997, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.

Where Om is popular in 1983

No state had 5 or more boys named Om in 1983, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.

See more about Om
Momentum · boys
Holding steady
  • 11 spots since 2024 (#2,156 → #2,167)
  • 256 spots since 2020 (#1,911 → #2,167)
  • 414 spots since 2015 (#1,753 → #2,167)
Rise & fade · boys
25 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1983
  • Peaked 2008 at #1,169 (153 births)
  • Births halved by 2019, 11 yrs later
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 13,334
  • Highest: 1 in 13,334 boys born in 2008 were named Om (0.01%)
  • Latest: 1 in 25,880 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
Era · boys
The 2000s
  • 41.7% of all boys named Om (968) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1980s5#6,238 (1983)#6,238
1990s17#6,314 (1998)#6,727
2000s968#1,169 (2008)#2,025
2010s920#1,415 (2010)#1,699
2020s411#1,911 (2020)#2,132

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.

Om in 1983

boys
#6,238
5 births · 1 in 358,513 boys

Top boys' names in 1983

  1. #1Michael68,004
  2. #2Christopher59,324
  3. #3Matthew50,209
  4. #4David39,201
  5. #5Joshua36,687
  6. #6James36,342
  7. #7Jason35,113
  8. #8Daniel34,748
  9. #9John33,154
  10. #10Robert32,745
  11. #6,238Om5
More about 1983

boys

1,792,564 boys got a published name in 1983; 1 in 358,513 of them was named Om, which outranked 15.1% of the 7,344 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 23.7% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Om
  1. #5,484Zeric6
  2. #5,484Zubair6
  3. #5,484Zuriel6
  4. #6,238Om5
  5. #6,238Abby5
  6. #6,238Abdallah5
  7. #6,238Abhay5

Tied with 1,106 names at #6,238; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1982
Risers
  1. ↑ 2,260Remington#3,108 → #848
  2. ↑ 2,159Trumaine#3,108 → #949
  3. ↑ 1,157Akeem#1,774 → #617
  4. ↑ 738Jacoby#1,654 → #916
  5. ↑ 655Deven#1,622 → #967
Fallers
  1. ↓ 284Marcello#969 → #1,253
  2. ↓ 275Schuyler#845 → #1,120
  3. ↓ 273Jessy#917 → #1,190
  4. ↓ 258Kennith#981 → #1,239
  5. ↓ 220Jarrad#933 → #1,153

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

See the top 100 for 1983 →