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Homar vs Homero

American parents have registered 3,763 Homeros since 1880, against 565 Homars. Homero is still ahead, with 16 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Homar against Homero, 1880 to 2025 0 25 50 75 100 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Homar Homero

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 105 years in which either name was published, Homero for 104 years and Homar for 1 year. The lead changed hands 2 times.

Side by side

  Homar Homero
Total US births 5653,763
Most in one year 2782
Babies in 2025 under 516
Estimated living today 5303,200
Median age today 3335
Peak year 19951994
Best rank 2,685th boys1,288th boys
Rank in 2025 unranked5,608th
First recorded 19181917
Girls / boys 0 / 5650 / 3,763

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Homeros alive today are over 35; half the Homars are over 33. That is 2 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Homar and Homero.