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How popular is the name Amar?
Births per year, rank history and how many Amars are alive today.
Amar (male) is an uncommon boys' name in England and Wales, ranked 658th in 2025 with 55 babies given the name. This spelling of the name peaked in 1997, when 74 babies were given the name, the 327th most popular that year. It was almost as popular in 2023, with 73 babies given the name that year. Its fortunes dipped to rank 996 in 2015 before climbing back to the 658th place it holds today. Numbers have been rising in recent years. Amar is one spelling of a name also recorded as Amaar and Ammaar; the combined figures below cover every spelling.
Across all spellings of the name, the Amar you are most likely to meet is around 17 years old. Half of all Amars born in England and Wales are between 10 and 28, and there are at least 2,700 of them alive today. If you walk into a room of 100 males, there's less than a 1% chance that anyone will be called Amar - on average, only one in every 113 such rooms contains a Amar.
How many babies are named Amar each year?
Includes all spellings: Amar, Amaar, Ammaar. Figures before 1996 are estimates.
Where does the Amar spelling rank?
Where does the Amaar spelling rank?
Where does the Ammaar spelling rank?
Where this data comes from
Figures from 1996 onwards are the Office for National Statistics' annual baby-name registrations for England and Wales, which record every name given to three or more babies in a year. Figures before 1996 are estimates: the ONS published only top-100 rankings at ten-year intervals back to 1904, so counts for those years are modelled from the rankings, calibrated against Douglas Galbi's long-run research into English name frequencies, and shown with an uncertainty band. Estimates of living bearers combine these birth figures with national life tables and ONS mid-year population estimates.
One limit worth naming: these figures count names as registered at birth. Anyone who changes their name later in life - including trans people, and anyone who adopts a different name by deed poll or simply by use - is not reflected here. Birth registrations record where a name began, not the name a person lives with.
Common questions
When was the name Amar most popular?
Amar peaked in 2006, when 101 babies in England and Wales were given the name across all spellings.
How many people are called Amar?
At least 2,700 people named Amar in any spelling born in England and Wales are alive today.
How old is the typical Amar?
Most living Amars are between 10 and 28; the most common age is about 17.
Is Amar becoming more or less popular?
Rising: numbers have been climbing in recent years.