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Omer

#2,103 in 2025Boys' name

To live long, to be long-lived, through عمر

Omer has been given to 8,923 babies in the U.S. since 1880. In 2025 it ranked #2,103 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1918, with 234 recorded.

Babies named Omer, 2025

1 in 47,400

Omer over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Omer: meaning, origin, and history

To live long, to be long-lived, through عمر

Arabic

What Omer means

Omer belongs to the name family reached through Omer → عمر → عُمَر. Its meaning is “to live long, to be long-lived”.

Origin, language, and formation

Omer is used in Albanian, French and Serbo-Croatian. Its origins include Arabic.

Omer comes through Ottoman Turkish عمر and Arabic عُمَر.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Otmar, عمر and عُمَر.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Albanian, Omer is pronounced /omer/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 8,856 boys were recorded with the name Omer between 1880 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 234 in 1918; its best national rank was #263 in 1891.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #2,014 in 2020 to #2,103 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #1,946 in 2015 to #2,103 in 2025.

In the United States, 67 girls were recorded with the name Omer between 1894 and 2023. Its highest annual count was 10 in 1923; its best national rank was #1,652 in 1894.

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 Omer?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 47,400
70 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 24,400
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#2,103
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
32,828 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Omer 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 5001%

Put another way: gather 32,828 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Omer. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Omers were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Omer was born before 1933 — so the typical Omer is around 92 today.

Median birth year
1933
About 92 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
20.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
19.2%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
3,286
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1920s — 20.2% of all recorded uses (1,786).

Is Omer 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
−29
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−89
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−157
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.93×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
29.9%
Peak was 1918 (234)
Years since peak
107
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
19.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#263
1891

Spellings of Omer

Omer is not the most common spelling — Roger is, with 35.6% against Omer's 0.71%.

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 Omer is used

Across 2016–2025, Omer was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in 9,091 boys, against 1 in 25,803 across all states with data. It was least common in Ohio (1 in 100,000).

111 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New York1 in 9,091
  2. 2New Jersey1 in 14,286
  3. 3Illinois1 in 20,000
  4. 4Virginia1 in 20,000
  5. 5Iowa1 in 25,000
  6. 6Florida1 in 33,333
  7. 7Michigan1 in 33,333
  8. 8Texas1 in 33,333

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.

Omer around the world

Where Omer 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
    #728
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2015–2024
    #727
    in 2024
  • Northern Ireland
    2016–2016
    #358
    in 2016
  • Ireland
    1990–2021
    #631
    in 2021
  • France
    1900–2025
    #969
    in 2025
  • Norway
    1880–2023
    #424
    in 2023
  • Canada
    1991–2024
    #1,390
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1953–2013
    #499
    in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency, 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, NISRA 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 Omer

People whose public names include Omer, 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.

Omer in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Omer. Linked forms have their own page here.

OmarUmar

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Omer by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#2,103
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 89
Best rank ever
#263
1891
Peak year
1918
234 that year
First recorded
1880
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
8,856
Count in 2025
70

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#1,652
1894
Peak year
1923
10 that year
First recorded
1894
Last recorded
2023
All-time count
67
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Omer

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

PalmerDelmerAmerOmegaWilmerSamerHomerOmereTamerElmerImerOmeroTomerOmenOmeedKramerUmerComerGilmerAlmerInmerCasimerGomerHelmer

Names with a curve like Omer

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

WilberValentineEmileWilmerCyrilFerdinandAlphonseNewtonNobleOlinBusterHarland

Sibling names for Omer

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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