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Kumar

Boys' name

Youth, young person, through कुमार

Kumar has been given to 305 babies in the U.S. since 1972. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1998, with 13 recorded.

Babies named Kumar, 2019

1 in 496,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Kumar: meaning, origin, and history

Youth, young person, through कुमार

Sanskrit

What Kumar means

Kumar belongs to the name family reached through Kumar → कुमार. Its meaning is “youth, young person”.

Origin, language, and formation

Kumar is used in English. Its origins include Sanskrit.

Kumar comes through Hindi कुमार.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include क and कुमार.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 305 boys were recorded with the name Kumar between 1972 and 2019. Its highest annual count was 13 in 1998; its best national rank was #3,338 in 1975.

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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Kumar?

Kumar had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2019, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2019
1 in 496,000
7 of 3,472,229 births
Among boys only
1 in 256,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2019
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
343,825 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Kumar 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 2019 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 343,825 children born in 2019 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Kumar. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Kumars were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Kumar was born before 1992 — so the typical Kumar is around 33 today.

Median birth year
1992
About 33 years old
Biggest decade
1980s
25.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
43.0%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
305
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1980s — 25.2% of all recorded uses (77).

Is Kumar 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
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1998 (13)
Years since peak
27
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
38.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,338
1975

Spellings of Kumar

Kumar is not the most common spelling — Omar is, with 51.3% against Kumar's 0.15%.

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 Kumar is used

Across 1910–2025, Kumar was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 1,665,480 across all states with data.

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Most concentrated

  1. 1New 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. Kumar has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Kumar around the world

Where Kumar 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
    1996–2004
    #3,651
    in 2004
  • South Australia
    1995–1995
    #533
    in 1995

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Kumar by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#3,338
1975
Peak year
1998
13 that year
First recorded
1972
Last recorded
2019
All-time count
305
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Kumar

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

AimarYomarRomarCamarEdmarQamarKemarNomarZamarItamarOumarIsmarLeomarElmarDamarRamarJaymarGiomarYosmarWilmarSamarDemarAhmarJosmar

Sibling names for Kumar

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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