girls:
67 births since 1894
#5649 (1st percentile)
boys:
8.7k births since 1880
#1267 (72nd percentile)
overall:
8.8k births since 1880
#2885 (63rd percentile)
The name Omer is the #2,885 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 8,778 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 62.7% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 62.7% of all names). For boys, it ranks #1,267 (72.4% percentile) for all time with 8,711 births since 1880. For girls, it ranks #5,649 (1.1% percentile) for all time with 67 births since 1894.
Omer has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for boys and since 1894 for girls).
The name Omer has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.2% of all recorded births being male. In 2023, 91.4% of babies named Omer were boys.
For boys, Omer reached its peak popularity in 1918, achieving the 36.6% percentile (ranked #337) with 223 births per million. The name was most common in 1891, with 348 births per million (ranked 16.4% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2020, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Omer ranks #852 for boys (6.5% percentile) with 35 births per million, which is 10.0% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Omer reached its peak popularity in 1923, achieving the 0.8% percentile (ranked #605) with 8 births per million. The name was most common in 1894, with 21 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). Over the past 5 years, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Omer ranks #946 for girls (0.1% percentile) with 3 births per million, which is 16.2% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Omer".
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These similar-looking names have spellings that are closest to the spelling of "Omer", in the sense that there are the fewest number of letter differences between the two spellings. This list excludes the 4 other name spellings that we've determined are also variations of "Omar" based on shared pronunciations. Click here for more details on names that are pronounced like Omar..
Our model found one way to pronounce the name Omer. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 100.0% confident that Omer is pronounced as OH-mer, which has 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 ER0) 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.
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