Amar
The boy's name Amar has been in the national records since 1967, with 5,334 births to its name. In 2025 it ranked 1,388th. About 5,200 Amars are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 16.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Amar boys named Amar
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 5,334
- Estimated living today
- 5,200
- Median age today
- 16
- Peak year
- 2023
- Best rank
- 1,163rd
- Rank in 2025
- 1,388th
- First recorded
- 1967
- Girls / boys
- 345 / 4,989
How old the living Amars are
born that year still alive today
Of the 5,334 babies given the name since 1967, about 5,200 are alive — 98 in every hundred. Roughly 2,900 of them are children and 0 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2009 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Notable Amars
- Amar Dedić (born 2002)Bosnian association football player
- Guru Amar Das (1479–1574)The third Guru of Sikhism
- Amar Benikhlef (born 1982)Algerian judoka
- Amar Osim (born 1967)Bosnian footballer
- Amar Bose (1929–2013)Indian American academic entrepreneur
- Amar Memić (born 2001)Bosnian footballer
- Agdanbuugyn Amar (1886–1941)former president of Mongolia
- Amar Kant (1925–2014)Indian writer
People named Amar with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Amar is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Amar is most concentrated in New York (2.8×), Florida (2.3×), Illinois (1.9×), California (1.7×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2023
The most popular boys’ names the year Amar peaked:
Amar elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| France boys | Amar | 6,890 | 166th |
| England and Wales boys | Amar | 1,504 | 327th |
| Switzerland boys | Amar | 1,352 | 99th |
| Italy boys | Amar | 727 | — |
| Norway boys | Amar | 197 | 345th |
| Belgium boys | Amar | 192 | 550th |
| England and Wales girls | Amar | 72 | 2,674th |
| Scotland boys | Amar | 38 | 236th |
| Switzerland girls | Amar | 18 | 1,325th |
| Ireland boys | Amar | 12 | 718th |
| France girls | Amar | 5 | 6,441st |
| Poland boys | Amar | 4 birth registrations | 732nd |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Amar: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German boys | Switzerland | Amar | 1,200 | 0.096% | 72nd |
| German girls | Switzerland | Amar | 15 | 0.001% | 1,027th |
| French boys | Switzerland | Amar | 139 | 0.032% | 186th |
| French girls | Switzerland | Amar | 2 | 0.000% | 880th |
| Italian boys | Switzerland | Amar | 13 | 0.020% | 128th |
| Italian girls | Switzerland | Amar | 1 | 0.002% | 183rd |
Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.
By canton, Amar is most concentrated in Aargau, where 0.14% of children were given it – 188 of them.
Amar: rank by region
In 2025, Amar was given 5 times or more in 2 regions of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flanders | Amar | 806 | 6 |
| Brussels | Amar | 265 | 5 |
In 2025, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Amar appears in the lists for Brussels-Capital Region (265th).
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Amar by city
| City | Years | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Berlin boys | 2017–2023 | 77 | 171st |
| Berlin girls | 2017–2023 | 41 | 275th |
One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.
Amar among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland boys | Amar | 76 | 104 |
| Finland girls | Amar | — | 9 |
A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Where Amar lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 1,660 men called Amar were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.
Men: the provinces where it is densest
| Province | Spelling | People | Per thousand | Place there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Melilla | Amar | 61 | 1.394 | 126 |
| Ceuta | Amar | 14 | 0.332 | 356 |
| Girona | Amar | 85 | 0.204 | 451 |
| Tarragona | Amar | 85 | 0.194 | 465 |
| Balears, Illes | Amar | 118 | 0.190 | 449 |
| Lleida | Amar | 43 | 0.183 | 487 |
Listed in 40 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 12 it is either held by fewer than 5 people – the point below which the source withholds a name – or it fell past the 5,000 names the source will print for one province. Neither means nobody there is called it. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.
Related names
Amar against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.