girls:
456 births since 1929
#5260 (8th percentile)
boys:
103.7k births since 1880
#299 (93rd percentile)
overall:
104.2k births since 1880
#657 (92nd percentile)
The name Omar is the #657 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 104,200 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 91.5% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 91.5% of all names). For boys, it ranks #299 (93.5% percentile) for all time with 103,744 births since 1880. For girls, it ranks #5,260 (7.9% percentile) for all time with 456 births since 1929.
Omar has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for boys and since 1929 for girls).
The name Omar has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.6% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Omar reached its peak popularity in 2007, achieving the 85.5% percentile (ranked #129) with 1,452 births per million. The name was most common in 2007, with 1,452 births per million (ranked 85.5% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2008, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Omar ranks #255 for boys (72.1% percentile) with 713 births per million, which is 49.1% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Omar reached its peak popularity in 1992, achieving the 1.9% percentile (ranked #843) with 10 births per million. The name was most common in 1992, with 10 births per million (ranked 1.9% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2015.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Omar".
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Our model has identified 4 different pronunciations for the name Omar. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 69.8% confident that Omar is pronounced as OH-mahr, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is oh-MAHR, at 16.3% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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For any given spelling, confidence scores across all identified pronunciations sum to 100%. However, these scores don't account for the possibility of valid pronunciations that our model hasn't identified.
The raw pronunciations shown (like OW1 M AA0 R) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.
Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.
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