Amar
Amar is given to both girls and boys: 17 girls and 132 boys were given it in 2025 (#6,559 among girls’ names and #1,388 among boys’, #2,704 among all names counting both); 5,334 Americans have been recorded with it since 1967 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 5,220 Americans named Amar and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 17 years old and half are between 8 and 26.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Amar by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Amar mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Amar is “a male given name.” Its etymology gives the sense “undying, immortal, imperishable” (अमर).
Borrowed from Sanskrit अमर (amara, “undying, immortal, imperishable”).
/ˈɑ.mɑɹ/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Amar?
#1,388 among boys’ names, 2025
Amar fell from #1,174 in 2015 to #1,388 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 82.4 to 77.3 per million.
196 babies in 2023, the peak
Amar peaked in 2023, when 196 babies were given it (178 boys, #1,163 among boys’ names). The 149 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 76% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 132 | #1,388 | 0.08 |
| 2024 | 160 | #1,241 | 0.09 |
| 2023 | 178 | #1,163 | 0.10 |
| 2022 | 133 | #1,393 | 0.08 |
| 2021 | 171 | #1,161 | 0.10 |
| 2020 | 143 | #1,281 | 0.08 |
| 2019 | 167 | #1,162 | 0.09 |
| 2018 | 143 | #1,283 | 0.08 |
| 2017 | 156 | #1,192 | 0.08 |
| 2016 | 139 | #1,304 | 0.07 |
Every recorded year (58)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 158 | #1,174 | 0.08 |
| 2014 | 155 | #1,188 | 0.08 |
| 2013 | 145 | #1,234 | 0.08 |
| 2012 | 144 | #1,226 | 0.08 |
| 2011 | 138 | #1,250 | 0.07 |
| 2010 | 127 | #1,341 | 0.07 |
| 2009 | 125 | #1,367 | 0.06 |
| 2008 | 135 | #1,284 | 0.07 |
| 2007 | 140 | #1,255 | 0.07 |
| 2006 | 138 | #1,214 | 0.07 |
| 2005 | 147 | #1,115 | 0.07 |
| 2004 | 135 | #1,158 | 0.07 |
| 2003 | 139 | #1,102 | 0.07 |
| 2002 | 115 | #1,202 | 0.06 |
| 2001 | 110 | #1,214 | 0.06 |
| 2000 | 88 | #1,404 | 0.04 |
| 1999 | 79 | #1,454 | 0.04 |
| 1998 | 91 | #1,298 | 0.05 |
| 1997 | 59 | #1,670 | 0.03 |
| 1996 | 53 | #1,738 | 0.03 |
| 1995 | 47 | #1,836 | 0.02 |
| 1994 | 53 | #1,686 | 0.03 |
| 1993 | 32 | #2,346 | 0.02 |
| 1992 | 42 | #1,911 | 0.02 |
| 1991 | 44 | #1,792 | 0.02 |
| 1990 | 55 | #1,525 | 0.03 |
| 1989 | 39 | #1,887 | 0.02 |
| 1988 | 58 | #1,351 | 0.03 |
| 1987 | 49 | #1,465 | 0.03 |
| 1986 | 55 | #1,320 | 0.03 |
| 1985 | 51 | #1,354 | 0.03 |
| 1984 | 50 | #1,321 | 0.03 |
| 1983 | 52 | #1,275 | 0.03 |
| 1982 | 39 | #1,565 | 0.02 |
| 1981 | 52 | #1,272 | 0.03 |
| 1980 | 54 | #1,258 | 0.03 |
| 1979 | 34 | #1,671 | 0.02 |
| 1978 | 48 | #1,299 | 0.03 |
| 1977 | 26 | #1,907 | 0.02 |
| 1976 | 36 | #1,502 | 0.02 |
| 1975 | 35 | #1,504 | 0.02 |
| 1974 | 26 | #1,792 | 0.02 |
| 1973 | 22 | #1,928 | 0.01 |
| 1972 | 15 | #2,425 | 0.01 |
| 1971 | 6 | #4,387 | under 0.01 |
| 1970 | 10 | #3,073 | 0.01 |
| 1968 | 7 | #3,372 | under 0.01 |
| 1967 | 9 | #2,766 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Amar a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 5,334 Americans recorded as Amar, 6% are girls and 94% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Amar: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Amar, and how old are they?
5,220 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 5,334 Americans ever recorded as Amar. The median Amar alive today is 17 years old; half are between 8 and 26.
The 2020 Census counted 6,045 people named Amar (453 women and girls, 5,592 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 4,274 born in the U.S. The Census count is 41% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census records the name people give, which for many is the short form Amar rather than the name on their birth record, and it counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 297 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 752 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,990 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 2,180 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Amar born?
The states with the most babies named Amar are California, New York and Florida, with 45% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 15 | #1,246 | 0.8× |
| New York | 14 | #916 | 2.0× |
| Florida | 10 | #1,195 | 0.8× |
| Texas | 10 | #1,656 | 0.4× |
| Michigan | 8 | #829 | 1.1× |
| New Jersey | 6 | #921 | 0.9× |
| Georgia | 6 | #1,221 | 0.8× |
| Minnesota | 6 | #720 | 0.9× |
| Ohio | 6 | #1,116 | 0.4× |
| Illinois | 5 | #1,291 | 1.3× |
Where Amar is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Amar is most over-represented in New York: since 1967 it was given 2.0 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Amar with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 80,212 babies since 1880, Amar is the third most given (6.6% of them). In 2025 it was given to 149 of their 4,130 babies (3.6%), the fifth most given that year.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Amar
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Amar and names like it
- Compare Amar and AmirBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sAmar peaked in 2023.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Amar since 1910.
- The top names of 2023The year the most babies were named Amar.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Amar alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with AMost given first.