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Ammar

#1,241 in 2025Boys' name

One who lives a long life, one who builds

Ammar has been given to 3,083 babies in the U.S. since 1977. In 2025 it ranked #1,241 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 161 recorded.

Babies named Ammar, 2025

1 in 20,600

Ammar over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Ammar: meaning, origin, and history

One who lives a long life, one who builds

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Ammar means

Ammar means “one who lives a long life, one who builds”.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 3,083 boys were recorded with the name Ammar between 1977 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 161 in 2025; its best national rank was #1,241 in 2025.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #1,621 in 2020 to #1,241 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #1,307 in 2015 to #1,241 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

How common is Ammar?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 20,600
161 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 10,600
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#1,241
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
14,274 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Ammar sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 5002%

Put another way: gather 14,274 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Ammar. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Ammars were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Ammar was born before 2012 — so the typical Ammar is around 13 today.

Median birth year
2012
About 13 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
34.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
78.6%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
3,083
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 34.9% of all recorded uses (1,076).

Is Ammar rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
+269
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+380
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+66
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.19×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
100.0%
Peak was 2025 (161)
Years since peak
Peaking now
At its all-time high
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
16.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,241
2025

Spellings of Ammar

Ammar is not the most common spelling — Omar is, with 30.5% against Ammar's 0.88%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Ammar is used

Across 2016–2025, Ammar was most concentrated in Minnesota — about 1 in 4,545 boys, against 1 in 12,564 across all states with data. It was least common in Tennessee (1 in 100,000).

122 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Minnesota1 in 4,545
  2. 2New York1 in 5,882
  3. 3Michigan1 in 6,667
  4. 4Illinois1 in 7,143
  5. 5Virginia1 in 10,000
  6. 6New Jersey1 in 11,111
  7. 7Texas1 in 12,500
  8. 8California1 in 16,667

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings.

Ammar around the world

Where Ammar ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1996–2025
    #606
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    1990–2025
    #762
    in 2025
  • Ireland
    2005–2024
    #785
    in 2024
  • France
    1953–2025
    #1,177
    in 2025
  • Norway
    1880–2025
    #483
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1991–2024
    #655
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1997–2011
    #784
    in 2011

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Norway, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, SSB, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Notable people named Ammar

People whose public names include Ammar, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Ammar by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#1,241
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 380
Best rank ever
#1,241
2025
Peak year
2025
161 that year
First recorded
1977
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
3,083
Count in 2025
161

Names similar to Ammar

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

AmmonOsmarJomarLemarKamarUmarNeymarDemarSamarDamarShemarAmarOumarShamarZamarNomarKemarJamarYomarJosmarDelmarWilmarLamarJaymar

Names with a curve like Ammar

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Ammar, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

MicaiahNikolaYakovYasinAnasKiranKlaytonFarisIlanZephaniahIsmailKainoa

Sibling names for Ammar

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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