Om
#2,167 for boys in 2025, 66 births
- Peak · boys
- 2008 · 153 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 2,321since 1983
Om over time
Rank among boys' names. Om 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 | #2,167 | 66 |
| 2024 | #2,156 | 68 |
| 2023 | #2,221 | 64 |
| 2022 | #2,408 | 58 |
| 2021 | #1,931 | 78 |
| 2020 | #1,911 | 77 |
| 2019 | #2,062 | 70 |
| 2018 | #1,901 | 78 |
| 2017 | #1,644 | 96 |
| 2016 | #1,774 | 86 |
| 2015 | #1,753 | 87 |
| 2014 | #1,730 | 87 |
| 2013 | #1,647 | 92 |
| 2012 | #1,551 | 102 |
| 2011 | #1,516 | 105 |
| 2010 | #1,415 | 117 |
| 2009 | #1,214 | 148 |
| 2008 | #1,169 | 153 |
| 2007 | #1,423 | 114 |
| 2006 | #1,467 | 104 |
| 2005 | #1,334 | 113 |
| 2004 | #1,183 | 131 |
| 2003 | #1,190 | 124 |
| 2002 | #2,249 | 46 |
| 2001 | #3,721 | 22 |
| 2000 | #5,297 | 13 |
| 1999 | #7,139 | 8 |
| 1998 | #6,314 | 9 |
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| 1983 | #6,238 | 5 |
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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 2009
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- New Jersey#325 · 1 in 1,940
- Illinois#667 · 1 in 4,837
- Georgia#799 · 1 in 5,902
- Michigan#829 · 1 in 7,051
- California#917 · 1 in 10,089
Best ever in a state: #296 in New Jersey, 2003.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| New Jersey | #325 | 23 | 1 in 1,940 |
| Illinois | #667 | 15 | 1 in 4,837 |
| Georgia | #799 | 10 | 1 in 5,902 |
| Michigan | #829 | 7 | 1 in 7,051 |
| California | #917 | 24 | 1 in 10,089 |
| Pennsylvania | #1,128 | 5 | 1 in 12,424 |
| New York | #1,432 | 7 | 1 in 15,387 |
| Florida | #1,453 | 6 | 1 in 15,883 |
| Texas | #1,662 | 8 | 1 in 23,307 |
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See more about Om
- 11 spots since 2024 (#2,156 → #2,167)
- 256 spots since 2020 (#1,911 → #2,167)
- 414 spots since 2015 (#1,753 → #2,167)
- Debuted 1983
- Peaked 2008 at #1,169 (153 births)
- Births halved by 2019, 11 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- 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%)
- 41.7% of all boys named Om (968) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
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| 1980s | 5 | #6,238 (1983) | #6,238 |
| 1990s | 17 | #6,314 (1998) | #6,727 |
| 2000s | 968 | #1,169 (2008) | #2,025 |
| 2010s | 920 | #1,415 (2010) | #1,699 |
| 2020s | 411 | #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 2009
Top boys' names in 2009
More about 2009
boys
1,983,573 boys got a published name in 2009; 1 in 13,403 of them was named Om, which outranked 91.7% of the 14,540 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 9.2% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).