Omari
#11,932 for girls in 2025, 7 births · #686 for boys in 2025, 397 births
Given to boys 97.1% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2018 · 618 births
- Debut · boys
- 7 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 13,158since 1971
Omari over time
Rank among boys' names. Omari has never cracked the top 400 here.
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 | #11,932 | 7 | #686 | 397 |
| 2024 | #15,293 | 5 | #613 | 465 |
| 2023 | #11,169 | 8 | #579 | 496 |
| 2022 | #9,056 | 11 | #536 | 555 |
| 2021 | #8,024 | 13 | #489 | 605 |
| 2020 | #6,325 | 18 | #499 | 585 |
| 2019 | #7,025 | 16 | #479 | 612 |
| 2018 | #9,151 | 11 | #471 | 618 |
| 2017 | #8,776 | 12 | #510 | 570 |
| 2016 | #8,875 | 12 | #532 | 553 |
| 2015 | #7,613 | 15 | #508 | 567 |
| 2014 | #7,636 | 15 | #708 | 341 |
| 2013 | #9,036 | 12 | #733 | 318 |
| 2012 | #8,208 | 14 | #710 | 334 |
| 2011 | #9,150 | 12 | #642 | 364 |
| 2010 | #8,701 | 13 | #655 | 368 |
| 2009 | #13,704 | 7 | #604 | 428 |
| 2008 | #6,799 | 19 | #548 | 479 |
| 2007 | #8,098 | 15 | #645 | 376 |
| 2006 | #8,715 | 13 | #715 | 302 |
| 2005 | #5,600 | 22 | #664 | 322 |
| 2004 | #5,969 | 20 | #570 | 399 |
| 2003 | #7,207 | 15 | #622 | 332 |
| 2002 | #6,392 | 17 | #699 | 256 |
| 2001 | #7,317 | 14 | #936 | 166 |
| 2000 | #8,534 | 11 | #924 | 166 |
| 1999 | #14,411 | 5 | #940 | 155 |
| 1998 | #14,122 | 5 | #847 | 172 |
| 1997 | #9,802 | 8 | #981 | 132 |
| 1996 | #8,812 | 9 | #1,112 | 107 |
| 1995 | #13,386 | 5 | #1,172 | 97 |
| 1994 | #8,122 | 10 | #1,075 | 108 |
| 1993 | #13,442 | 5 | #1,238 | 84 |
| 1992 | — | #1,210 | 86 | |
| 1991 | — | #1,139 | 93 | |
| 1990 | — | #1,111 | 93 | |
| 1989 | — | #1,374 | 64 | |
| 1988 | — | #1,249 | 67 | |
| 1987 | — | #1,295 | 57 | |
| 1986 | — | #1,199 | 63 | |
| 1985 | — | #1,290 | 55 | |
| 1984 | — | #1,228 | 56 | |
| 1983 | — | #1,314 | 50 | |
| 1982 | — | #1,115 | 67 | |
| 1981 | — | #1,044 | 76 | |
| 1980 | — | #938 | 91 | |
| 1979 | #10,210 | 5 | #1,169 | 60 |
| 1978 | — | #996 | 75 | |
| 1977 | — | #998 | 74 | |
| 1976 | — | #1,225 | 50 | |
| 1975 | — | #1,208 | 49 | |
| 1974 | — | #1,215 | 47 | |
| 1973 | — | #1,400 | 36 | |
| 1972 | — | #2,659 | 13 | |
| 1971 | — | #3,963 | 7 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Omari! It came in at #3,963, and was given to 7 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1971, when fewer than 8 boys a year got the name.
Where Omari is popular in 1974
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Michigan#550 · 1 in 9,165
- New York#740 · 1 in 12,702
- California#869 · 1 in 16,701
Best ever in a state: #116 in Delaware, 2018.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Michigan | #550 | 7 | 1 in 9,165 |
| New York | #740 | 9 | 1 in 12,702 |
| California | #869 | 9 | 1 in 16,701 |
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See more about Omari
- 73 spots since 2024 (#613 → #686)
- 187 spots since 2020 (#499 → #686)
- 178 spots since 2015 (#508 → #686)
- Biggest jump: 237 spots in 2002 (#936 → #699)
- Biggest drop: 173 spots in 1979 (#996 → #1,169)
- Debuted 1971
- Peaked 2018 at #471 (618 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 32 yrs · run 1997–2025
- Highest: 1 in 2,892 boys born in 2021 were named Omari (0.03%)
- Latest: 1 in 4,302 boys born in 2025 (0.02%)
- Its best rank, #471 in 2018, was only 1 in 2,939 (0.03%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 35.3% of all boys named Omari (4,645) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 411 | #996 (1978) | #1,648 |
| 1980s | 646 | #938 (1980) | #1,205 |
| 1990s | 1,127 | #847 (1998) | #1,083 |
| 2000s | 3,226 | #548 (2008) | #693 |
| 2010s | 4,645 | #471 (2018) | #595 |
| 2020s | 3,103 | #489 (2021) | #567 |
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.
Omari in 1974
Top boys' names in 1974
More about 1974
boys
1,572,334 boys got a published name in 1974; 1 in 33,454 of them was named Omari, which outranked 79.8% of the 6,004 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 26.5% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,198Raheem48
- #1,198Shan48
- #1,198Sky48
- #1,215Omari47
- #1,215Anson47
- #1,215Berry47
- #1,215Bryson47
- #1,229Adonis46
- #1,229Channing46
- #1,229Cliffton46
Tied with 13 names at #1,215; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.