Amar — #1241 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Amar

The Social Security Administration has registered 4,856 babies named Amar between 1967 and 2024, spanning 58 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Amar currently holds the #1241 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2023, when 177 babies received it in a single year. Amar is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 328 additional births since 1990.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Amar performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 1,472 births during that ten-year window. Across the 7 decades of recorded activity, Amar shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 665 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California and Illinois. In total, SSA state-level files list Amar in 27 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Amar in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 4,856 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.