Om
Om was given to 66 boys in 2025, #2,177 among boys’ names; 2,321 Americans have been recorded with it since 1983 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,300 Americans named Om and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 15 years old and half are between 9 and 19.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Om by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Om?
#2,177 among boys’ names, 2025
Om fell from #1,764 in 2015 to #2,177 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 45.4 to 38.6 per million.
153 babies in 2008, the peak
Om peaked in 2008, when 153 boys were given it, #1,174 among boys’ names. The 66 births of 2025 are 43% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 66 | #2,177 | 38.6 |
| 2024 | 68 | #2,165 | 39.5 |
| 2023 | 64 | #2,236 | 37.4 |
| 2022 | 58 | #2,431 | 33.2 |
| 2021 | 78 | #1,939 | 44.6 |
| 2020 | 77 | #1,918 | 44.6 |
| 2019 | 70 | #2,076 | 39.0 |
| 2018 | 78 | #1,911 | 42.9 |
| 2017 | 96 | #1,658 | 51.9 |
| 2016 | 86 | #1,779 | 45.3 |
Every recorded year (29)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 87 | #1,764 | 45.4 |
| 2014 | 87 | #1,745 | 45.3 |
| 2013 | 92 | #1,656 | 48.6 |
| 2012 | 102 | #1,558 | 53.8 |
| 2011 | 105 | #1,520 | 55.3 |
| 2010 | 117 | #1,421 | 61.0 |
| 2009 | 148 | #1,217 | 74.6 |
| 2008 | 153 | #1,174 | 75.0 |
| 2007 | 114 | #1,430 | 54.9 |
| 2006 | 104 | #1,477 | 50.6 |
| 2005 | 113 | #1,339 | 56.6 |
| 2004 | 131 | #1,186 | 66.0 |
| 2003 | 124 | #1,194 | 62.8 |
| 2002 | 46 | #2,279 | 23.7 |
| 2001 | 22 | #3,808 | 11.3 |
| 2000 | 13 | #5,493 | 6.6 |
| 1999 | 8 | #7,666 | 4.2 |
| 1998 | 9 | #6,687 | 4.7 |
| 1983 | 5 | #6,998 | 2.8 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Om a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Om has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 29 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Om: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Om, and how old are they?
2,300 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 2,321 Americans ever recorded as Om. The median Om alive today is 15 years old; half are between 9 and 19.
The 2020 Census counted 2,893 people named Om (123 women and girls, 2,770 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,912 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.5 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 5 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,290 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 999 |
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 Om born?
The states with the most babies named Om are California, New Jersey and Illinois, with 72% of its births recorded by state in 2025; New Jersey is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 13 | #1,409 | 1.1× |
| New Jersey | 7 | #887 | 4.7× |
| Illinois | 6 | #1,244 | 1.5× |
| Texas | 5 | #2,854 | 0.6× |
| North Carolina | 5 | #1,419 | 0.2× |
Where Om is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Om is most over-represented in New Jersey: since 1983 it was given 4.7 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 Om 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 2 names spelled alike, given to 2,512 babies since 1880, Om is the most given (92% of them). In 2025 it was given to 66 of their 66 babies (100%), again the most given.
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 Om
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 Om and names like it
- Compare Om and OhmBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sOm peaked in 2008.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Om since 1910.
- The top names of 2008The year the most babies were named Om.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Om alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with OMost given first.