Amar

#6,546 for girls in 2025, 17 births · #1,388 for boys in 2025, 132 births
Given to boys 93.5% of the time

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Peak · boys
2003 · 139 births
Debut · boys
9 births
In top 100 · boys
never
of 146 years
Total births · boys
4,989
since 1967

Amar over time

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Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201979peak #5,338, 2017peak #1,103, 2003girlsboys
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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Yeargirlsboys
rankbirthsrankbirths
2025#6,54617#1,388132
2024#6,93216#1,241160
2023#6,40918#1,163178
2022#5,63822#1,393133
2021#7,25015#1,161171
2020#7,96913#1,280143
2019#8,13813#1,162167
2018#8,14613#1,282143
2017#5,33824#1,191156
2016#7,60215#1,304139
2015#8,44713#1,174158
2014#7,30216#1,188155
2013#6,72918#1,233145
2012#9,10912#1,226144
2011#13,3477#1,250138
2010#16,9925#1,341127
2009#15,2426#1,367125
2008#17,5045#1,284135
2007#13,9247#1,255140
2006#15,1526#1,214138
2005#9,45211#1,116147
2004#12,7617#1,159135
2003#10,4259#1,103139
2002#1,204115
2001#9,35110#1,216110
2000#8,02712#1,40888
1999#9,4799#1,45779
1998#12,4266#1,30191
1997#1,67259
1996#1,74053
1995#1,84147
1994#1,68953
1993#13,4425#2,34732
1992#13,3175#1,91442
1991#1,79844
1990#7,88010#1,53055
1989#1,89139
1988#1,35558
1987#1,46749
1986#1,32055
1985#1,35451
1984#1,32050
1983#1,27552
1982#1,56339
1981#1,27052
1980#1,25854
1979#1,67034
1978#1,29948
1977#1,90426
1976#1,50236
1975#1,50535
1974#1,79026
1973#1,92822
1972#2,41815
1971#4,3756
1970#3,07110
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1967#2,7609
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First appearance
1967

The first year at least five boys were named Amar! It came in at #2,760, and was given to 9 baby boys.


Quietest stretch: 1969, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.

See more about Amar
Momentum · boys
Holding steady
  • 147 spots since 2024 (#1,241#1,388)
  • 108 spots since 2020 (#1,280#1,388)
  • 214 spots since 2015 (#1,174#1,388)
Rise & fade · boys
36 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1967
  • Peaked 2003 at #1,103 (139 births)
  • Not yet halved from its peak
Top of the charts · boys
Never in the top 1,000
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · boys
1 in 9,610
  • Highest: 1 in 9,610 boys born in 2023 were named Amar (0.01%)
  • Latest: 1 in 12,940 boys born in 2025 (0.01%)
  • Its best rank, #1,103 in 2003, was only 1 in 14,211 (0.01%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · boys
The 2010s
  • 29.5% of all boys named Amar (1,472) were born in this decade
Girls or boys?
Never flipped
  • The majority has never changed
all girlsall boys
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1960s16#2,760 (1967)#3,063
1970s258#1,299 (1978)#2,146
1980s499#1,258 (1980)#1,407
1990s555#1,301 (1998)#1,729
2000s1,272#1,103 (2003)#1,233
2010s1,472#1,162 (2019)#1,235
2020s917#1,161 (2021)#1,271

All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.

Amar in 1979

boys
#1,670
34 births · 1 in 50,633 boys

Top boys' names in 1979

  1. #1Michael67,713
  2. #2Christopher50,659
  3. #3Jason50,369
  4. #4David42,053
  5. #5James39,351
  6. #6Matthew35,621
  7. #7John35,410
  8. #8Robert34,015
  9. #9Joshua31,120
  10. #10Brian28,659
  11. #1,670Amar34
More about 1979

boys

1,721,536 boys got a published name in 1979; 1 in 50,633 of them was named Amar, which outranked 76.4% of the 7,071 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 24.1% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Amar
  1. #1,633Skylar35
  2. #1,633Stephon35
  3. #1,633Ward35
  4. #1,670Amar34
  5. #1,670Alessandro34
  6. #1,670Anthoney34
  7. #1,670Antonino34
  8. #1,711Abner33
  9. #1,711Angus33
  10. #1,711Branson33

Tied with 40 names at #1,670; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1978
Risers
  1. 1,228Tyrel#2,134#906
  2. 471Jace#1,186#715
  3. 387Chaz#1,371#984
  4. 311Tyrell#1,051#740
  5. 308Frederic#1,203#895
Fallers
  1. 1,230Dequan#927#2,157
  2. 641Rahsaan#869#1,510
  3. 446Chip#989#1,435
  4. 308Rashaun#996#1,304
  5. 307Kenya#749#1,056

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 1979