Kamar
Kamar was given to 20 boys in 2025, #4,947 among boys’ names; 1,632 Americans have been recorded with it since 1976 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,600 Americans named Kamar and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 18 years old and half are between 11 and 24.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kamar by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Kamar?
#4,947 among boys’ names, 2025
Kamar fell from #3,117 in 2015 to #4,947 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 19.3 to 11.7 per million.
89 babies in 2006, the peak
Kamar peaked in 2006, when 89 boys were given it, #1,623 among boys’ names. The 20 births of 2025 are 22% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 20 | #4,947 | 11.7 |
| 2024 | 24 | #4,372 | 13.9 |
| 2023 | 31 | #3,669 | 18.1 |
| 2022 | 36 | #3,305 | 20.6 |
| 2021 | 36 | #3,269 | 20.6 |
| 2020 | 52 | #2,484 | 30.1 |
| 2019 | 35 | #3,299 | 19.5 |
| 2018 | 33 | #3,413 | 18.2 |
| 2017 | 33 | #3,413 | 17.8 |
| 2016 | 37 | #3,134 | 19.5 |
Every recorded year (48)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 37 | #3,117 | 19.3 |
| 2014 | 42 | #2,830 | 21.9 |
| 2013 | 51 | #2,441 | 27.0 |
| 2012 | 53 | #2,401 | 27.9 |
| 2011 | 63 | #2,116 | 33.2 |
| 2010 | 78 | #1,860 | 40.7 |
| 2009 | 69 | #2,024 | 34.8 |
| 2008 | 74 | #1,940 | 36.3 |
| 2007 | 65 | #2,101 | 31.3 |
| 2006 | 89 | #1,623 | 43.3 |
| 2005 | 79 | #1,698 | 39.6 |
| 2004 | 55 | #2,142 | 27.7 |
| 2003 | 43 | #2,448 | 21.8 |
| 2002 | 49 | #2,175 | 25.2 |
| 2001 | 50 | #2,094 | 25.7 |
| 2000 | 33 | #2,769 | 16.8 |
| 1999 | 37 | #2,431 | 19.3 |
| 1998 | 19 | #3,776 | 9.9 |
| 1997 | 25 | #3,024 | 13.3 |
| 1996 | 32 | #2,455 | 16.9 |
| 1995 | 13 | #4,652 | 6.8 |
| 1994 | 12 | #4,953 | 6.2 |
| 1993 | 15 | #4,123 | 7.6 |
| 1992 | 11 | #5,054 | 5.5 |
| 1991 | 8 | #6,222 | 4.0 |
| 1990 | 19 | #3,233 | 9.3 |
| 1989 | 14 | #3,907 | 7.0 |
| 1988 | 5 | #7,893 | 2.6 |
| 1987 | 14 | #3,428 | 7.5 |
| 1986 | 15 | #3,202 | 8.1 |
| 1985 | 9 | #4,510 | 4.9 |
| 1984 | 16 | #2,885 | 8.9 |
| 1983 | 8 | #4,707 | 4.5 |
| 1982 | 5 | #6,857 | 2.8 |
| 1980 | 5 | #6,754 | 2.8 |
| 1979 | 7 | #5,113 | 4.1 |
| 1977 | 12 | #3,289 | 7.3 |
| 1976 | 8 | #4,206 | 5.1 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Kamar a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,632 Americans recorded as Kamar, 3% are girls and 97% boys. In 2025 it went to 20 boys; SSA lists no girls with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Kamar: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kamar, and how old are they?
1,600 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 1,632 Americans ever recorded as Kamar. The median Kamar alive today is 18 years old; half are between 11 and 24.
The 2020 Census counted 1,572 people named Kamar (300 women and girls, 1,272 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,414 born in the U.S. The Census count is 11% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census records the name people give, which for many is the short form Kamar 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 | 29 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 187 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 880 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 507 |
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 Kamar born?
The states with the most babies named Kamar are New York, Florida and Maryland, with 49% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Maryland is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 117 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Florida | 75 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Maryland | 64 | not ranked | 2.2× |
| Pennsylvania | 55 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| New Jersey | 51 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| California | 40 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Georgia | 33 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Ohio | 33 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Illinois | 12 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| North Carolina | 12 | not ranked | 0.2× |
Where Kamar is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Kamar is most over-represented in New York: since 1976 it was given 1.1 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 Kamar 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 7 names spelled alike, given to 2,494 babies since 1880, Kamar is the most given (65% of them). In 2025 it was given to 20 of their 90 babies (22%), the third 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 Kamar
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 Kamar and names like it
- Compare Kamar and KamirBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sKamar peaked in 2006.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Kamar since 1910.
- The top names of 2006The year the most babies were named Kamar.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Kamar alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with KMost given first.