Ammar
Ammar was given to 161 boys in 2025, #1,241 among boys’ names; 3,083 Americans have been recorded with it since 1977 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 3,030 Americans named Ammar and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 13 years old and half are between 7 and 24.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Ammar by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Ammar?
#1,241 among boys’ names, 2025
Ammar rose from #1,307 in 2015 to #1,241 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 70.4 to 94.3 per million.
161 babies in 2025, the peak
Ammar peaked in 2025, when 161 boys were given it, #1,241 among boys’ names. In 2024 it went to 118 boys.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 161 | #1,241 | 94.3 |
| 2024 | 118 | #1,510 | 68.5 |
| 2023 | 110 | #1,577 | 64.3 |
| 2022 | 118 | #1,523 | 67.6 |
| 2021 | 94 | #1,723 | 53.7 |
| 2020 | 99 | #1,621 | 57.4 |
| 2019 | 120 | #1,450 | 66.9 |
| 2018 | 97 | #1,657 | 53.4 |
| 2017 | 117 | #1,455 | 63.2 |
| 2016 | 130 | #1,366 | 68.5 |
Every recorded year (49)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 135 | #1,307 | 70.4 |
| 2014 | 120 | #1,402 | 62.5 |
| 2013 | 110 | #1,483 | 58.2 |
| 2012 | 93 | #1,656 | 49.0 |
| 2011 | 70 | #1,968 | 36.9 |
| 2010 | 84 | #1,767 | 43.8 |
| 2009 | 78 | #1,860 | 39.3 |
| 2008 | 67 | #2,062 | 32.8 |
| 2007 | 85 | #1,741 | 41.0 |
| 2006 | 66 | #2,011 | 32.1 |
| 2005 | 75 | #1,749 | 37.6 |
| 2004 | 73 | #1,729 | 36.8 |
| 2003 | 71 | #1,714 | 35.9 |
| 2002 | 64 | #1,789 | 33.0 |
| 2001 | 68 | #1,695 | 35.0 |
| 2000 | 73 | #1,605 | 37.2 |
| 1999 | 45 | #2,095 | 23.4 |
| 1998 | 55 | #1,808 | 28.8 |
| 1997 | 53 | #1,789 | 28.1 |
| 1996 | 33 | #2,376 | 17.4 |
| 1995 | 31 | #2,440 | 16.3 |
| 1994 | 30 | #2,501 | 15.5 |
| 1993 | 42 | #1,929 | 21.4 |
| 1992 | 32 | #2,301 | 16.0 |
| 1991 | 40 | #1,916 | 19.8 |
| 1990 | 22 | #2,861 | 10.7 |
| 1989 | 37 | #1,948 | 18.5 |
| 1988 | 28 | #2,192 | 14.6 |
| 1987 | 16 | #3,074 | 8.6 |
| 1986 | 23 | #2,363 | 12.5 |
| 1985 | 13 | #3,406 | 7.0 |
| 1984 | 10 | #3,930 | 5.5 |
| 1983 | 14 | #3,076 | 7.8 |
| 1982 | 17 | #2,712 | 9.4 |
| 1981 | 12 | #3,419 | 6.7 |
| 1980 | 6 | #5,552 | 3.4 |
| 1979 | 13 | #3,175 | 7.6 |
| 1978 | 8 | #4,162 | 4.9 |
| 1977 | 7 | #4,607 | 4.3 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Ammar a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Ammar has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 49 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Ammar: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Ammar, and how old are they?
3,030 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 3,083 Americans ever recorded as Ammar. The median Ammar alive today is 13 years old; half are between 7 and 24.
The 2020 Census counted 4,313 people named Ammar (32 women and girls, 4,281 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,374 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.8 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 31 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 382 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,100 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,520 |
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 Ammar born?
The states with the most babies named Ammar are Texas, New York and California, with 40% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 19 | #1,136 | 0.9× |
| New York | 18 | #772 | 1.8× |
| California | 12 | #1,444 | 0.7× |
| Illinois | 12 | #714 | 1.5× |
| Virginia | 12 | #589 | 0.6× |
| Michigan | 8 | #830 | 1.3× |
| Florida | 8 | #1,356 | 0.5× |
| Minnesota | 8 | #588 | 1.2× |
| Pennsylvania | 8 | #917 | 0.3× |
| Ohio | 7 | #1,020 | 0.3× |
Where Ammar is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Ammar is most over-represented in New York: since 1977 it was given 1.8 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 Ammar 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, Ammar is the fifth most given (3.8% of them). In 2025 it was given to 161 of their 4,130 babies (3.9%), the fourth 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 Ammar
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 Ammar and names like it
- Compare Ammar and AmirBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sAmmar peaked in 2025.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Ammar since 1910.
- The top names of 2025The year the most babies were named Ammar.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Ammar alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with AMost given first.