Omer

Where Omer comes from

Omer hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

Along the way
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #314 among boys — 29 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1891
    Peak, #260
    38 babies named Omer — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1905
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #549.
  4. 1950
    Omer Beriziky born
    Malagasy Prime Minister
  5. 1954
    Omer Bartov born
    Israeli-American historian
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Omer Bartov · Israeli-American historian, born 1954
  • Omer Beriziky · Malagasy Prime Minister, born 1950
  • Omer Damari · Israeli footballer, born 1989
  • Omer Golan · Israeli footballer, born 1982
  • Omer Adam · American-Israeli singer, born 1993

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.