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How popular is “Omar” in the USA?

Number of people named “Omar” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Omar” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Omar” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Omar” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Omar” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Omar” by birth year

This chart shows how “Omar” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year Count Proportion Females Males Bias toward female
1880 14 0.000069484 14 -100%
1881 11 0.000057087 11 -100%
1882 11 0.000049654 11 -100%
1883 13 0.000059923 13 -100%
1884 6 0.000024645 6 -100%
1885 15 0.000062278 15 -100%
1886 14 0.000054834 14 -100%
1887 10 0.000040422 10 -100%
1888 19 0.000063445 19 -100%
1889 11 0.000038069 11 -100%
1890 16 0.000053085 16 -100%
1891 5 0.000017441 5 -100%
1892 16 0.000047851 16 -100%
1893 14 0.000043047 14 -100%
1894 10 0.000029526 10 -100%
1895 22 0.000062674 22 -100%
1896 11 0.000030771 11 -100%
1897 19 0.000054762 19 -100%
1898 12 0.000031458 12 -100%
1899 17 0.000050113 17 -100%
1900 10 0.000022209 10 -100%
1901 8 0.000023134 8 -100%
1902 8 0.000020686 8 -100%
1903 15 0.000039349 15 -100%
1904 8 0.000019827 8 -100%
1905 16 0.000037743 16 -100%
1906 12 0.000028008 12 -100%
1907 15 0.000032231 15 -100%
1908 10 0.000020465 10 -100%
1909 14 0.000027385 14 -100%
1910 13 0.000022007 13 -100%
1911 21 0.000032595 21 -100%
1912 44 0.000044532 44 -100%
1913 52 0.00004573 52 -100%
1914 59 0.000041657 59 -100%
1915 70 0.000038201 70 -100%
1916 92 0.00004756 92 -100%
1917 80 0.000039865 80 -100%
1918 109 0.000050205 109 -100%
1919 116 0.00005497 116 -100%
1920 88 0.000038893 88 -100%
1921 96 0.000041122 96 -100%
1922 81 0.000035384 81 -100%
1923 81 0.000035179 81 -100%
1924 86 0.00003611 86 -100%
1925 90 0.000038572 90 -100%
1926 71 0.000030925 71 -100%
1927 79 0.000034061 79 -100%
1928 78 0.000034499 78 -100%
1929 69 0.000031476 6 63 -83%
1930 65 0.000029236 65 -100%
1931 47 0.000022334 47 -100%
1932 67 0.000031734 67 -100%
1933 62 0.000031009 62 -100%
1934 49 0.000023594 49 -100%
1935 60 0.00002871 60 -100%
1936 44 0.000021179 44 -100%
1937 51 0.000023936 51 -100%
1938 36 0.000016271 36 -100%
1939 38 0.000017246 38 -100%
1940 43 0.000018674 43 -100%
1941 48 0.000019701 48 -100%
1942 45 0.000016473 5 40 -78%
1943 43 0.000015234 43 -100%
1944 45 0.000016728 45 -100%
1945 48 0.000018093 48 -100%
1946 52 0.000016274 52 -100%
1947 48 0.000013325 48 -100%
1948 55 0.00001593 55 -100%
1949 64 0.000018366 64 -100%
1950 64 0.000018268 64 -100%
1951 63 0.000017102 63 -100%
1952 63 0.000016588 63 -100%
1953 70 0.000018165 70 -100%
1954 77 0.000019343 77 -100%
1955 67 0.000016687 67 -100%
1956 82 0.000019888 82 -100%
1957 77 0.000018324 77 -100%
1958 85 0.000020562 85 -100%
1959 91 0.000021886 91 -100%
1960 96 0.000023111 96 -100%
1961 115 0.000027762 115 -100%
1962 109 0.000027011 109 -100%
1963 116 0.000029306 116 -100%
1964 139 0.000035755 139 -100%
1965 150 0.000041374 150 -100%
1966 200 0.000057543 200 -100%
1967 254 0.000074818 7 247 -94%
1968 316 0.000093535 316 -100%
1969 448 0.000128909 448 -100%
1970 558 0.00015472 6 552 -98%
1971 547 0.000159366 11 536 -96%
1972 645 0.000205218 645 -100%
1973 798 0.000264511 12 786 -97%
1974 818 0.000269079 9 809 -98%
1975 908 0.000300723 16 892 -96%
1976 1153 0.000379989 16 1137 -97%
1977 1243 0.000391312 17 1226 -97%
1978 1306 0.000411485 13 1293 -98%
1979 1397 0.000419898 16 1381 -98%
1980 1458 0.000423283 13 1445 -98%
1981 1450 0.000419151 16 1434 -98%
1982 1397 0.000398237 12 1385 -98%
1983 1286 0.000371318 12 1274 -98%
1984 1280 0.000366893 9 1271 -99%
1985 1225 0.000343223 8 1217 -99%
1986 1328 0.00037334 16 1312 -98%
1987 1302 0.000361104 15 1287 -98%
1988 1438 0.00038917 12 1426 -98%
1989 1646 0.00042815 15 1631 -98%
1990 1991 0.000503735 13 1978 -99%
1991 2150 0.000551952 15 2135 -99%
1992 2327 0.000605789 21 2306 -98%
1993 2466 0.000654063 13 2453 -99%
1994 2438 0.00065579 19 2419 -98%
1995 2524 0.000689212 18 2506 -99%
1996 2525 0.000692313 7 2518 -99%
1997 2297 0.000633524 6 2291 -99%
1998 2452 0.000666629 2452 -100%
1999 2678 0.000724985 7 2671 -99%
2000 2695 0.000712981 8 2687 -99%
2001 2730 0.000729285 7 2723 -99%
2002 2628 0.000702995 6 2622 -100%
2003 2713 0.000713512 8 2705 -99%
2004 2735 0.000715796 10 2725 -99%
2005 2967 0.000771683 2967 -100%
2006 3114 0.000787121 9 3105 -99%
2007 3223 0.000806217 7 3216 -100%
2008 2869 0.000729902 5 2864 -100%
2009 2548 0.000666985 2548 -100%
2010 2172 0.000587704 5 2167 -100%
2011 1886 0.000515612 1886 -100%
2012 1921 0.000525241 1921 -100%
2013 1882 0.000516229 1882 -100%
2014 1812 0.000488887 5 1807 -99%
2015 1841 0.000497445 5 1836 -99%
2016 1734 0.000472647 1734 -100%
2017 1642 0.000459147 1642 -100%
2018 1582 0.000449956 1582 -100%
2019 1485 0.000427839 1485 -100%
2020 1386 0.000414898 1386 -100%
2021 1304 0.000384894 1304 -100%
2022 1453 0.000429483 1453 -100%
2023 1311 0.000395929 1311 -100%
2024 1343 0.000403485 1343 -100%

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