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Itamar

#7,878 in 2025UnisexBoys' nameGirls' name

Form of Ithamar

Itamar has been given to 326 babies in the U.S. since 1987. In 2025 it ranked #7,878 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2012, with 18 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 95% boys, 5% girls all-time.

Babies named Itamar, 2025

1 in 332,000

Itamar over time, 1880–2025

BoysGirls
0510152018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Girls or boys — Itamar over time

In 2025, Itamar went to 0% girls and 100% boys.

19872025

A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.

Itamar: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Ithamar

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Itamar means

Itamar is a form of Ithamar.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Ithamar.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 310 boys were recorded with the name Itamar between 1987 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 18 in 2012; its best national rank was #5,110 in 2012.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #8,319 in 2020 to #7,878 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #6,102 in 2015 to #7,878 in 2025.

In the United States, 16 girls were recorded with the name Itamar between 2004 and 2013. Its highest annual count was 6 in 2010; its best national rank was #15,703 in 2010.

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 Itamar?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 332,000
10 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 171,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#7,878
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
229,791 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Itamar 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 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 229,791 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Itamar. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Itamars were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Itamar was born before 2010 — so the typical Itamar is around 15 today.

Median birth year
2010
About 15 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
38.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
81.9%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
310
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 38.1% of all recorded uses (118).

Is Itamar 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
+3,589
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+441
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
−1,776
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.71×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
55.6%
Peak was 2012 (18)
Years since peak
13
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
36.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#5,110
2012

Spellings of Itamar

Itamar is not the most common spelling — Lamar is, with 48.5% against Itamar's 0.44%.

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 Itamar is used

Across 1910–2025, Itamar was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 788,629 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2New York1 in —

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. Itamar has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Itamar around the world

Where Itamar 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
    2011–2018
    #4,749
    in 2018
  • France
    2005–2009
    #5,572
    in 2009
  • South Australia
    2005–2005
    #643
    in 2005

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

Itamar by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#7,878
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 441
Best rank ever
#5,110
2012
Peak year
2012
18 that year
First recorded
1987
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
310
Count in 2025
10

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#15,703
2010
Peak year
2010
6 that year
First recorded
2004
Last recorded
2013
All-time count
16
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Itamar

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

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Sibling names for Itamar

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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