Omar

Popularity, 1880–2025

girls named Omar boys named Omar

By the numbers

Total US births

106,894

Estimated living today

101,000

Median age today

24

Peak year

2007

Best rank

131st

Rank in 2025

260th

First recorded

1880

Girls / boys

456 / 106,438

How old the living Omars are

born that year still alive today

Of the 106,894 babies given the name since 1880, about 101,000 are alive — 94 in every hundred. Roughly 31,000 of them are children and 880 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2001 and half after.

An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.

Where the name comes from

Origin Arabic

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Notable Omars

• Omar Khayyám (1048–1131)Persian mathematician and poet
• Omar al-Bashir (born 1944)President of Sudan from 1989 to 2019
• Omar Sharif (1932–2015)Egyptian actor
• Omar Bongo (1935–2009)Gabonese politician
• Omar Bradley (1893–1981)United States Army general
• Omar al-Mukhtar (1858–1931)Leader of the Senussi resistance against the Italian fascist occupation
• Omar Sívori (1935–2005)Italian-Argentine footballer
• Omar Sy (born 1978)French actor and comedian

People named Omar with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Where Omar is most common

• CA27,238
• TX16,216
• NY9,542
• IL6,351
• FL4,636
• NJ4,036
• AZ2,893
• PA2,759
• MI2,445
• GA2,147

Relative to how many babies each state records, Omar is most concentrated in Nevada (2.6×), California (2.6×), Arizona (2.3×), Texas (2.0×).

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 2007

The most popular boys’ names the year Omar peaked:

• Jacob
• Michael
• Ethan
• Joshua
• Daniel
• Christopher

All the names of 2007

Omar elsewhere

Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.

Omar: births by region

Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.

By canton, Omar is most concentrated in Ticino, where 0.13% of children were given it – 80 of them.

Omar: rank by region

In 2025, Omar was given 5 times or more in 3 regions of Belgium.

In 2021, Omar was among the 10 most common names in 1 region of Spain.

In 2023, Omar was among the 10 most common names in 1 region of Italy.

In 2025, Omar was given 2 times or more in 2 regions of Poland.

In 2025, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Omar appears in the lists for Brussels-Capital Region (29th), Province of West Flanders (52nd), Province of Antwerp (56th), Province of East Flanders (67th), Province of Flemish Brabant (86th), Province of Limburg (89th) and Province of Liège (93rd).

Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children, Spain after 10 names, Italy after 10 names, Poland below 2 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.

Omar by city

One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.

Omar among the living

How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.

A count of people on a register – the Netherlands on 1 January 2018, Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.

Where Omar lives in Spain

Not a count of births but of people: 25,890 men called Omar were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.

Men: the provinces where it is densest

Listed in 52 of Spain's 52 provinces. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.

Related names

• Omari
• Oma
• Omarion
• Omayra

Omar against another name

Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.

• Omar vs Omari
• Omar vs Oma
• Omar vs Omarion
• Omar vs Omayra

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