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Umar

#1,164 in 2025Boys' name

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

Umar has been given to 3,205 babies in the U.S. since 1951. In 2025 it ranked #1,164 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 180 recorded.

Babies named Umar, 2025

1 in 18,400

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Umar: meaning, origin, and history

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

Arabic

What Umar means

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

Origin, language, and formation

Umar is used in English. Its origins include Arabic.

Umar comes through Arabic عُمَر.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Omar and عُمَر.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 3,205 boys were recorded with the name Umar between 1951 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 180 in 2025; its best national rank was #1,164 in 2025.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #1,608 in 2020 to #1,164 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #1,443 in 2015 to #1,164 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 Umar?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 18,400
180 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 9,490
0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#1,164
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
12,767 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Umar 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 5003%

Put another way: gather 12,767 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Umar. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Umars were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Umar was born before 2013 — so the typical Umar is around 12 today.

Median birth year
2013
About 12 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
32.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
76.1%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
3,205
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 32.1% of all recorded uses (1,029).

Is Umar 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
+5
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+444
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+279
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.53×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
100.0%
Peak was 2025 (180)
Years since peak
Peaking now
At its all-time high
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
15.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,164
2025

Spellings of Umar

Umar is not the most common spelling — Mark is, with 67.2% against Umar's 0.16%.

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 Umar is used

Across 2016–2025, Umar was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in 2,778 boys, against 1 in 9,423 across all states with data. It was least common in Wisconsin (1 in 50,000).

236 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New York1 in 2,778
  2. 2Illinois1 in 3,704
  3. 3Pennsylvania1 in 4,762
  4. 4New Jersey1 in 6,667
  5. 5Maryland1 in 10,000
  6. 6Ohio1 in 12,500
  7. 7Virginia1 in 14,286
  8. 8California1 in 16,667

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.

Umar around the world

Where Umar 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
    #234
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    1987–2025
    #367
    in 2025
  • Ireland
    2003–2025
    #676
    in 2025
  • France
    1985–2025
    #1,270
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1991–2024
    #697
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    2009–2013
    #754
    in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, 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 Umar

People whose public names include Umar, 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.

Umar in other languages

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

Omar

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

Umar by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#1,164
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 444
Best rank ever
#1,164
2025
Peak year
2025
180 that year
First recorded
1951
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
3,205
Count in 2025
180

Names similar to Umar

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

AmarAmmarOsmarUmairJomarLemarKamarNeymarDemarSamarDamarShemarShamarOumarJamarZamarNomarKemarYomarDelmarJosmarLamarWilmarJaymar

Names with a curve like Umar

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

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Sibling names for Umar

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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