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Om

#2,177 in 2025Boys' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Om has been given to 2,321 babies in the U.S. since 1983. In 2025 it ranked #2,177 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2008, with 153 recorded.

Babies named Om, 2025

1 in 50,200

Om over time, 1880–2025

Boys
05010015020018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Om: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Om means

Om is a given name.

The naming story behind Om

Wikidata records Om as a given name. The entity identifier is Q80637201, and the classification was checked on 2026-10-20. The spelling matches a source label or alias exactly, without removing accents or linking it to a name merely because the letters look similar.

A database classification is different from an etymological explanation, so those questions remain open in the short meaning.

A modern root explanation needs an additional naming or linguistic reference.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,321 boys were recorded with the name Om between 1983 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 153 in 2008; its best national rank was #1,174 in 2008.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #1,918 in 2020 to #2,177 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #1,764 in 2015 to #2,177 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 Om?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 50,200
66 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 25,900
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#2,177
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
34,818 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Om 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 34,818 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Om. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Oms were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Om was born before 2011 — so the typical Om is around 14 today.

Median birth year
2011
About 14 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
41.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
98.5%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
2,321
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 41.7% of all recorded uses (968).

Is Om 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
−12
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−259
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−413
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.76×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
43.1%
Peak was 2008 (153)
Years since peak
17
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Steady
10.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,174
2008

Where Om is used

Across 2016–2025, Om was most concentrated in New Jersey — about 1 in 5,000 boys, against 1 in 23,277 across all states with data. It was least common in Pennsylvania (1 in 100,000).

120 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New Jersey1 in 5,000
  2. 2California1 in 14,286
  3. 3Washington1 in 14,286
  4. 4Massachusetts1 in 25,000
  5. 5New York1 in 25,000
  6. 6Illinois1 in 33,333
  7. 7Texas1 in 33,333
  8. 8Georgia1 in 50,000

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.

Om around the world

Where Om 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
    1999–2025
    #1,705
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2013–2013
    #687
    in 2013
  • Canada
    2002–2024
    #916
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    2004–2013
    #754
    in 2013

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

Notable people named Om

People whose public names include Om, 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.

Om by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#2,177
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 259
Best rank ever
#1,174
2008
Peak year
2008
153 that year
First recorded
1983
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,321
Count in 2025
66

Names similar to Om

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

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Names with a curve like Om

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

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Sibling names for Om

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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