Boys' name · since 1997
Ammaar
239 babies named Ammaar in U.S. Social Security records since 1997, with the highest year being 2013. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
- #11,925 of 45,481
- all-time among boys
- 239
- born since 1997
- 2010s
- peak decade
Ammaar sits outside today's top ranks for boys, with 239 recorded since 1997.
Ammaar has 239 recorded births among boys since 1997, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, though it falls outside today's most-used boys names, busiest in the 2010s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 1997 to 2024.
- #11,925 of 45,481 all-time among boys
- 239 born since 1997
- 2010s peak decade
Data updated Aug 2026
The verdict
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Ammaar ranks #11,925 of 45,481 boys' names by all-time recorded births (highest first). 239 born since 1997, peaking in the 2010s.
- #11,925 of 45,481
- all-time among boys
- 239
- born since 1997
- 2010s
- peak decade
Ammaar's 239 recorded births place it above 73.73% of the 45,481 boys names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
Ammaar's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Splitting Ammaar's full recorded timeline at 2011, 61% of its total births fall in the more recent half of the record versus 39% in the earlier half -- usage has skewed toward the present, not a one-decade spike. Its quietest year on record was 1997, with just 5 recorded births -- worth weighing against the 2013 peak of 20 to see the full range of the name's swing in popularity.
Ammaar popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1997–2024
- Peak year (2013)
- 20
- Annual births at peak, across 28 years of records
Ammaar by decade
2010s is the heaviest window (135 births, 56% of the file).
2010s was Ammaar's strongest decade.
135 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 56% of all-time use.
Ammaar births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 1990s 5
1990s
5 births
- 2000s
2000s
77 births
- 2010s
2010s
135 births
- 2020s 22
2020s
22 births
What this shows Peak: 2010s at 135 births (56% of all-time use).
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- Ammaar's decade-level peak was the 2010s (135 total births); usage has since declined to 22 in the 2020s -- if you're weighing a "classic revival" angle, the trend line argues against it.
Figures reflect SSA-reported births only; see the methodology above for the privacy-suppression floor.
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Two nationwide peer axes for Ammaar: closest SSA peak year, and closest first→latest record span. Distinct from the spelling and current-rank neighborhoods above.
Similar peak year (~2013)
Similar record span (~27 yrs)
Peak year is the single SSA year with the most births for that name; record span is first-to-latest year in the national files, not a recommendation or shared origin claim.
Data Sources
Data as of August 2026. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
According to the Social Security Administration, this profile draws directly from the agency's public-use baby-name files (updated June 2026). See our methodology for the full extraction, aggregation, and privacy-suppression rules.
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data, 1997–2024 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
Name Almanac is rendered directly from the Social Security Administration's public baby-name files, no number is typed in by an editor. This profile for Ammaar draws directly on SSA national and state-level files, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of August 2026.