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Omar vs Omarian

American parents have registered 106,894 Omars since 1880, against 304 Omarians. Omar is still ahead, with 1,333 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Omar against Omarian, 1880 to 2025 0 1k 2k 3k 4k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Omar Omarian

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

Omar has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1880 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2004, when Omar had 2,735 and Omarian had 51.

Side by side

  Omar Omarian
Total US births 106,894304
Most in one year 3,22351
Babies in 2025 1,333under 5
Estimated living today 101,000300
Median age today 2420
Peak year 20072004
Best rank 131st boys2,238th boys
Rank in 2025 260thunranked
First recorded 18802002
Girls / boys 456 / 106,4380 / 304

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 Omars alive today are over 24; half the Omarians are over 20. That is 4 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.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Omar Omarian
England and Wales 7,15510

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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