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Omid

#4,496 in 2025Boys' name

Hope, through امید

Omid has been given to 803 babies in the U.S. since 1973. In 2025 it ranked #4,496 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1987, with 30 recorded.

Babies named Omid, 2025

1 in 144,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Omid: meaning, origin, and history

Hope, through امید

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Omid means

Omid belongs to the name family reached through Omid → امید. Its meaning is “hope”.

Origin, language, and formation

Omid is used in English.

Omid comes through Persian امید.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include امید.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 803 boys were recorded with the name Omid between 1973 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 30 in 1987; its best national rank was #2,042 in 1987.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #5,627 in 2020 to #4,496 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #6,583 in 2015 to #4,496 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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Omid?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 144,000
23 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 74,300
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#4,496
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
99,910 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Omid 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 99,910 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Omid. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Omids were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Omid was born before 1998 — so the typical Omid is around 27 today.

Median birth year
1998
About 27 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
26.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
43.0%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
803
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1990s — 26.5% of all recorded uses (213).

Is Omid 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
+4,302
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+1,131
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+2,087
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.77×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
76.7%
Peak was 1987 (30)
Years since peak
38
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
31.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,042
1987

Spellings of Omid

Omid is not the most common spelling — Omar is, with 26.1% against Omid's 0.20%.

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 Omid is used

Across 1910–2025, Omid was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 50,000 boys, against 1 in 56,417 across all states with data.

22 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 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. Omid has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Omid around the world

Where Omid 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
    1997–2025
    #2,440
    in 2025
  • France
    1985–2025
    #5,260
    in 2025
  • Norway
    1880–2016
    #511
    in 2016
  • Canada
    1991–2023
    #3,103
    in 2023
  • South Australia
    1977–2012
    #385
    in 2012

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

Omid by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#4,496
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 1,131
Best rank ever
#2,042
1987
Peak year
1987
30 that year
First recorded
1973
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
803
Count in 2025
23

Names similar to Omid

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

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Sibling names for Omid

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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