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
- Peak · boys
- 2003 · 139 births
- Debut · boys
- 9 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 4,989since 1967
Amar over time
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #6,546 | 17 | #1,388 | 132 |
| 2024 | #6,932 | 16 | #1,241 | 160 |
| 2023 | #6,409 | 18 | #1,163 | 178 |
| 2022 | #5,638 | 22 | #1,393 | 133 |
| 2021 | #7,250 | 15 | #1,161 | 171 |
| 2020 | #7,969 | 13 | #1,280 | 143 |
| 2019 | #8,138 | 13 | #1,162 | 167 |
| 2018 | #8,146 | 13 | #1,282 | 143 |
| 2017 | #5,338 | 24 | #1,191 | 156 |
| 2016 | #7,602 | 15 | #1,304 | 139 |
| 2015 | #8,447 | 13 | #1,174 | 158 |
| 2014 | #7,302 | 16 | #1,188 | 155 |
| 2013 | #6,729 | 18 | #1,233 | 145 |
| 2012 | #9,109 | 12 | #1,226 | 144 |
| 2011 | #13,347 | 7 | #1,250 | 138 |
| 2010 | #16,992 | 5 | #1,341 | 127 |
| 2009 | #15,242 | 6 | #1,367 | 125 |
| 2008 | #17,504 | 5 | #1,284 | 135 |
| 2007 | #13,924 | 7 | #1,255 | 140 |
| 2006 | #15,152 | 6 | #1,214 | 138 |
| 2005 | #9,452 | 11 | #1,116 | 147 |
| 2004 | #12,761 | 7 | #1,159 | 135 |
| 2003 | #10,425 | 9 | #1,103 | 139 |
| 2002 | — | #1,204 | 115 | |
| 2001 | #9,351 | 10 | #1,216 | 110 |
| 2000 | #8,027 | 12 | #1,408 | 88 |
| 1999 | #9,479 | 9 | #1,457 | 79 |
| 1998 | #12,426 | 6 | #1,301 | 91 |
| 1997 | — | #1,672 | 59 | |
| 1996 | — | #1,740 | 53 | |
| 1995 | — | #1,841 | 47 | |
| 1994 | — | #1,689 | 53 | |
| 1993 | #13,442 | 5 | #2,347 | 32 |
| 1992 | #13,317 | 5 | #1,914 | 42 |
| 1991 | — | #1,798 | 44 | |
| 1990 | #7,880 | 10 | #1,530 | 55 |
| 1989 | — | #1,891 | 39 | |
| 1988 | — | #1,355 | 58 | |
| 1987 | — | #1,467 | 49 | |
| 1986 | — | #1,320 | 55 | |
| 1985 | — | #1,354 | 51 | |
| 1984 | — | #1,320 | 50 | |
| 1983 | — | #1,275 | 52 | |
| 1982 | — | #1,563 | 39 | |
| 1981 | — | #1,270 | 52 | |
| 1980 | — | #1,258 | 54 | |
| 1979 | — | #1,670 | 34 | |
| 1978 | — | #1,299 | 48 | |
| 1977 | — | #1,904 | 26 | |
| 1976 | — | #1,502 | 36 | |
| 1975 | — | #1,505 | 35 | |
| 1974 | — | #1,790 | 26 | |
| 1973 | — | #1,928 | 22 | |
| 1972 | — | #2,418 | 15 | |
| 1971 | — | #4,375 | 6 | |
| 1970 | — | #3,071 | 10 | |
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| 1968 | — | #3,365 | 7 | |
| 1967 | — | #2,760 | 9 | |
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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
- 147 spots since 2024 (#1,241 → #1,388)
- 108 spots since 2020 (#1,280 → #1,388)
- 214 spots since 2015 (#1,174 → #1,388)
- Debuted 1967
- Peaked 2003 at #1,103 (139 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- 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
- 29.5% of all boys named Amar (1,472) were born in this decade
- The majority has never changed
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 16 | #2,760 (1967) | #3,063 |
| 1970s | 258 | #1,299 (1978) | #2,146 |
| 1980s | 499 | #1,258 (1980) | #1,407 |
| 1990s | 555 | #1,301 (1998) | #1,729 |
| 2000s | 1,272 | #1,103 (2003) | #1,233 |
| 2010s | 1,472 | #1,162 (2019) | #1,235 |
| 2020s | 917 | #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 2015
Top girls' names in 2015
Top boys' names in 2015
More about 2015
girls
1,785,098 girls got a published name in 2015; 1 in 137,315 of them was named Amar, which outranked 55.8% of the 19,130 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.4% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #8,008Zully14
- #8,008Zylee14
- #8,008Zyniah14
- #8,447Amar13
- #8,447Abena13
- #8,447Abisai13
- #8,447Adabella13
- #8,931Aahna12
- #8,931Aaima12
- #8,931Aalijah12
Tied with 483 names at #8,447; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,916,743 boys got a published name in 2015; 1 in 12,131 of them was named Amar, which outranked 91.6% of the 14,059 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.3% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,168Ledger159
- #1,168Slade159
- #1,168Tiago159
- #1,174Amar158
- #1,174Ansel158
- #1,174Broderick158
- #1,174Ismail158
- #1,182Dhruv157
- #1,182Jorden157
- #1,182Kent157
Tied with 7 names at #1,174; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.