Umar
#1,159 for boys in 2025, 180 births
- Peak · boys
- 2025 · 180 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 3,205since 1951
Umar over time
Rank among boys' names. Umar 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 | #1,159 | 180 |
| 2024 | #1,165 | 179 |
| 2023 | #1,266 | 152 |
| 2022 | #1,245 | 158 |
| 2021 | #1,383 | 132 |
| 2020 | #1,600 | 101 |
| 2019 | #1,523 | 111 |
| 2018 | #1,343 | 134 |
| 2017 | #1,455 | 117 |
| 2016 | #1,456 | 118 |
| 2015 | #1,438 | 118 |
| 2014 | #1,619 | 96 |
| 2013 | #1,624 | 94 |
| 2012 | #1,909 | 75 |
| 2011 | #1,849 | 76 |
| 2010 | #1,697 | 90 |
| 2009 | #2,702 | 45 |
| 2008 | #2,583 | 48 |
| 2007 | #2,185 | 61 |
| 2006 | #2,150 | 60 |
| 2005 | #2,081 | 59 |
| 2004 | #1,989 | 60 |
| 2003 | #1,962 | 59 |
| 2002 | #1,998 | 55 |
| 2001 | #1,841 | 60 |
| 2000 | #1,895 | 55 |
| 1999 | #1,824 | 54 |
| 1998 | #2,012 | 47 |
| 1997 | #2,201 | 39 |
| 1996 | #2,145 | 39 |
| 1995 | #2,847 | 25 |
| 1994 | #2,307 | 34 |
| 1993 | #2,050 | 39 |
| 1992 | #2,747 | 25 |
| 1991 | #2,344 | 30 |
| 1990 | #2,628 | 25 |
| 1989 | #2,615 | 24 |
| 1988 | #2,197 | 28 |
| 1987 | #2,559 | 21 |
| 1986 | #2,096 | 27 |
| 1985 | #2,171 | 25 |
| 1984 | #2,706 | 17 |
| 1983 | #2,208 | 23 |
| 1982 | #2,341 | 21 |
| 1981 | #2,680 | 17 |
| 1980 | #2,729 | 17 |
| 1979 | #2,236 | 22 |
| 1978 | #2,568 | 17 |
| 1977 | #3,037 | 13 |
| 1976 | #3,471 | 10 |
| 1975 | #3,659 | 9 |
| 1974 | #2,674 | 14 |
| 1973 | #2,716 | 13 |
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| 1971 | #3,963 | 7 |
| 1970 | #3,521 | 8 |
| 1969 | #4,404 | 5 |
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| 1966 | #3,948 | 5 |
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| 1964 | #3,282 | 7 |
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The first year at least five boys were named Umar! It came in at #3,714, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1951–1963, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Umar is popular in 2024
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- New York#396 · 1 in 1,965
- Illinois#495 · 1 in 2,510
- Pennsylvania#515 · 1 in 2,903
- Maryland#525 · 1 in 2,592
- Virginia#697 · 1 in 4,194
Best ever in a state: #396 in New York, 2024.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| New York | #396 | 44 | 1 in 1,965 |
| Illinois | #495 | 20 | 1 in 2,510 |
| Pennsylvania | #515 | 18 | 1 in 2,903 |
| Maryland | #525 | 9 | 1 in 2,592 |
| Virginia | #697 | 9 | 1 in 4,194 |
| New Jersey | #702 | 9 | 1 in 4,437 |
| Wisconsin | #756 | 5 | 1 in 4,701 |
| Ohio | #1,136 | 6 | 1 in 8,782 |
| California | #1,379 | 13 | 1 in 13,866 |
| Texas | #1,596 | 11 | 1 in 16,254 |
| Florida | #1,627 | 6 | 1 in 15,940 |
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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 Umar
- 6 spots since 2024 (#1,165 → #1,159)
- 441 spots since 2020 (#1,600 → #1,159)
- 279 spots since 2015 (#1,438 → #1,159)
- Debuted 1951
- Peaked 2025 at #1,159 (180 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 9,489 boys born in 2025 were named Umar (0.01%)
- 32.1% of all boys named Umar (1,029) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1950s | 5 | #3,714 (1951) | #3,714 |
| 1960s | 17 | #3,282 (1964) | #3,878 |
| 1970s | 113 | #2,236 (1979) | #3,094 |
| 1980s | 220 | #2,096 (1986) | #2,430 |
| 1990s | 357 | #1,824 (1999) | #2,311 |
| 2000s | 562 | #1,841 (2001) | #2,139 |
| 2010s | 1,029 | #1,343 (2018) | #1,591 |
| 2020s | 902 | #1,159 (2025) | #1,303 |
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.
Umar in 2024
Top boys' names in 2024
More about 2024
boys
1,722,888 boys got a published name in 2024; 1 in 9,625 of them was named Umar, which outranked 91.8% of the 14,294 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.0% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,160Ramiro180
- #1,160Torin180
- #1,160Yohan180
- #1,165Umar179
- #1,165Elvis179
- #1,165Gio179
- #1,165Jordy179
- #1,170Edmund178
- #1,170Gerald178
- #1,172Jair177
Tied with 4 names at #1,165; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.