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 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 2017
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Delaware#208 · 1 in 688
- South Carolina#269 · 1 in 1,167
- New Jersey#273 · 1 in 1,362
- Georgia#306 · 1 in 1,451
- Maryland#312 · 1 in 1,473
Best ever in a state: #116 in Delaware, 2018.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Delaware | #208 | 5 | 1 in 688 |
| South Carolina | #269 | 18 | 1 in 1,167 |
| New Jersey | #273 | 30 | 1 in 1,362 |
| Georgia | #306 | 37 | 1 in 1,451 |
| Maryland | #312 | 18 | 1 in 1,473 |
| Virginia | #315 | 26 | 1 in 1,567 |
| Connecticut | #334 | 8 | 1 in 1,756 |
| Mississippi | #362 | 8 | 1 in 1,667 |
| Arkansas | #378 | 8 | 1 in 1,714 |
| Massachusetts | #383 | 12 | 1 in 2,402 |
| Louisiana | #386 | 13 | 1 in 1,835 |
| New York | #398 | 43 | 1 in 2,269 |
| Illinois | #408 | 28 | 1 in 2,212 |
| Ohio | #421 | 25 | 1 in 2,334 |
| Florida | #422 | 41 | 1 in 2,358 |
| North Carolina | #430 | 21 | 1 in 2,444 |
| Alabama | #436 | 10 | 1 in 2,287 |
| Pennsylvania | #438 | 22 | 1 in 2,646 |
| Michigan | #476 | 17 | 1 in 2,731 |
| Missouri | #492 | 11 | 1 in 2,782 |
| Tennessee | #511 | 12 | 1 in 3,022 |
| Wisconsin | #526 | 9 | 1 in 2,888 |
| Kansas | #551 | 5 | 1 in 3,009 |
| Kentucky | #564 | 6 | 1 in 3,606 |
| Arizona | #613 | 9 | 1 in 3,847 |
| Texas | #638 | 39 | 1 in 4,517 |
| Oklahoma | #679 | 5 | 1 in 3,868 |
| California | #717 | 37 | 1 in 5,830 |
| Indiana | #819 | 6 | 1 in 5,742 |
| Washington | #958 | 5 | 1 in 7,111 |
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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 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 2017
Top girls' names in 2017
Top boys' names in 2017
More about 2017
girls
1,726,461 girls got a published name in 2017; 1 in 143,872 of them was named Omari, which outranked 52.4% of the 18,448 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.4% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #8,299Zera13
- #8,299Zoella13
- #8,299Zoraida13
- #8,776Omari12
- #8,776Aaima12
- #8,776Aalani12
- #8,776Aaleah12
- #9,341Aalaya11
- #9,341Aalaysia11
- #9,341Aayushi11
Tied with 564 names at #8,776; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
- ↓ 263Julianne#919 → #1,182
- ↓ 243Milania#947 → #1,190
- ↓ 240Wendy#858 → #1,098
- ↓ 238Montserrat#808 → #1,046
- ↓ 224Nathaly#930 → #1,154
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,850,956 boys got a published name in 2017; 1 in 3,247 of them was named Omari, which outranked 96.4% of the 14,262 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.0% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.