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How popular is the name Omar?
Births per year, rank history and how many Omars are alive today.
Omar (male) sits just outside the top 100 boys' names in England and Wales, ranked 157th in 2025 with 332 babies given the name. Its fortunes dipped to rank 233 in 2009 before climbing back to the 157th place it holds today. Numbers have been rising in recent years. At least 7,100 babies have been named Omar in England and Wales since 1996.
The Omar you are most likely to meet is around 2 years old. Half of all Omars born in England and Wales are between 8 and 28, and there are at least 8,600 of them alive today. If you walk into a room of 100 males, there's roughly a 2.8% chance that at least one of them will be called Omar.
How many babies are named Omar each year?
Where does Omar rank among boys' names?
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 Omar most popular?
Omar peaked in 2025, when 332 babies in England and Wales were given the name.
How many people are called Omar?
At least 8,600 people named Omar born in England and Wales are alive today.
How old is the typical Omar?
Most living Omars are between 8 and 28; the most common age is about 2.
Is Omar becoming more or less popular?
Rising: numbers have been climbing in recent years.