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How popular is the name Umar?
Births per year, rank history and how many Umars are alive today.
Umar (male) sits just outside the top 100 boys' names in England and Wales, ranked 234th in 2025 with 214 babies given the name. It was almost as popular in 2014, with 212 babies given the name that year. Its fortunes dipped to rank 305 in 2022 before climbing back to the 234th place it holds today. Numbers have been rising in recent years. At least 5,100 babies have been named Umar in England and Wales since 1996.
The Umar you are most likely to meet is around 11 years old. Half of all Umars born in England and Wales are between 9 and 26, and there are at least 6,000 of them alive today. If you walk into a room of 100 males, there's roughly a 2% chance that at least one of them will be called Umar.
How many babies are named Umar each year?
Where does Umar 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 Umar most popular?
Umar peaked in 2025, when 214 babies in England and Wales were given the name.
How many people are called Umar?
At least 6,000 people named Umar born in England and Wales are alive today.
How old is the typical Umar?
Most living Umars are between 9 and 26; the most common age is about 11.
Is Umar becoming more or less popular?
Rising: numbers have been climbing in recent years.