Omari
Omari was given to 397 boys in 2025, #687 among boys’ names; 13,557 Americans have been recorded with it since 1971 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 13,300 Americans named Omari 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 22.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Omari by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Omari mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Omari is “a male given name from Arabic.”
Borrowed from Arabic عمري. The surname is predominantly found in Tanzania.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Omari?
#687 among boys’ names, 2025
Omari fell from #508 in 2015 to #687 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 0.30 to 0.23 per 1,000.
629 babies in 2018, the peak
Omari peaked in 2018, when 629 babies were given it (618 boys, #472 among boys’ names). The 404 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 64% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 397 | #687 | 0.23 |
| 2024 | 465 | #613 | 0.27 |
| 2023 | 496 | #579 | 0.29 |
| 2022 | 555 | #536 | 0.32 |
| 2021 | 605 | #489 | 0.35 |
| 2020 | 585 | #500 | 0.34 |
| 2019 | 612 | #479 | 0.34 |
| 2018 | 618 | #472 | 0.34 |
| 2017 | 570 | #510 | 0.31 |
| 2016 | 553 | #532 | 0.29 |
Every recorded year (55)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 567 | #508 | 0.30 |
| 2014 | 341 | #710 | 0.18 |
| 2013 | 318 | #735 | 0.17 |
| 2012 | 334 | #710 | 0.18 |
| 2011 | 364 | #645 | 0.19 |
| 2010 | 368 | #656 | 0.19 |
| 2009 | 428 | #604 | 0.22 |
| 2008 | 479 | #549 | 0.23 |
| 2007 | 376 | #647 | 0.18 |
| 2006 | 302 | #716 | 0.15 |
| 2005 | 322 | #664 | 0.16 |
| 2004 | 399 | #570 | 0.20 |
| 2003 | 332 | #622 | 0.17 |
| 2002 | 256 | #700 | 0.13 |
| 2001 | 166 | #938 | 0.09 |
| 2000 | 166 | #923 | 0.08 |
| 1999 | 155 | #940 | 0.08 |
| 1998 | 172 | #850 | 0.09 |
| 1997 | 132 | #983 | 0.07 |
| 1996 | 107 | #1,117 | 0.06 |
| 1995 | 97 | #1,176 | 0.05 |
| 1994 | 108 | #1,073 | 0.06 |
| 1993 | 84 | #1,238 | 0.04 |
| 1992 | 86 | #1,215 | 0.04 |
| 1991 | 93 | #1,137 | 0.05 |
| 1990 | 93 | #1,110 | 0.05 |
| 1989 | 64 | #1,374 | 0.03 |
| 1988 | 67 | #1,253 | 0.04 |
| 1987 | 57 | #1,309 | 0.03 |
| 1986 | 63 | #1,211 | 0.03 |
| 1985 | 55 | #1,298 | 0.03 |
| 1984 | 56 | #1,234 | 0.03 |
| 1983 | 50 | #1,324 | 0.03 |
| 1982 | 67 | #1,123 | 0.04 |
| 1981 | 76 | #1,051 | 0.04 |
| 1980 | 91 | #942 | 0.05 |
| 1979 | 60 | #1,174 | 0.03 |
| 1978 | 75 | #1,002 | 0.05 |
| 1977 | 74 | #1,004 | 0.05 |
| 1976 | 50 | #1,234 | 0.03 |
| 1975 | 49 | #1,223 | 0.03 |
| 1974 | 47 | #1,227 | 0.03 |
| 1973 | 36 | #1,423 | 0.02 |
| 1972 | 13 | #2,777 | 0.01 |
| 1971 | 7 | #4,256 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Omari a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 13,557 Americans recorded as Omari, 3% are girls and 97% boys. In 2025 it went to 7 girls and 397 boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Omari: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Omari, and how old are they?
13,300 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 13,557 Americans ever recorded as Omari. The median Omari alive today is 13 years old; half are between 7 and 22.
The 2020 Census counted 8,463 people named Omari (305 women and girls, 8,158 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 10,391 born in the U.S. The Census count is 19% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 462 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,190 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 4,890 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 6,790 |
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 Omari born?
The states with the most babies named Omari are Florida, Texas and Georgia, with 28% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Florida | 38 | #486 | 1.6× |
| Texas | 35 | #786 | 0.5× |
| Georgia | 31 | #383 | 2.2× |
| New York | 30 | #540 | 1.8× |
| California | 30 | #825 | 0.6× |
| North Carolina | 22 | #483 | 1.4× |
| Michigan | 17 | #509 | 1.3× |
| South Carolina | 16 | #339 | 1.7× |
| Ohio | 14 | #665 | 0.6× |
| New Jersey | 13 | #568 | 1.1× |
Where Omari is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Omari is most over-represented in Georgia: since 1971 it was given 2.2 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 Omari 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 15,836 babies since 1880, Omari is the most given (86% of them). In 2025 it was given to 404 of their 448 babies (90%), 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 Omari
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 Omari and names like it
- Compare Omari and OmriBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sOmari peaked in 2018.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Omari since 1910.
- Arabic namesWiktionary’s origin for Omari: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2018The year the most babies were named Omari.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Omari alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with OMost given first.