# Omer (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/omer/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 8,923 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 8,856 / 67 (1% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 1,049, 1996 to 2025 |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1894 | 5 | 1,653 |
| 1912 | 5 | 3,320 |
| 1914 | 6 | 3,504 |
| 1918 | 5 | 5,391 |
| 1922 | 7 | 4,335 |
| 1923 | 10 | 3,302 |
| 1926 | 6 | 4,704 |
| 1927 | 7 | 4,172 |
| 1934 | 5 | 4,804 |
| 2006 | 5 | 19,301 |
| 2023 | 6 | 14,729 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 60 | 2,193 |
| 2012 | 59 | 2,229 |
| 2013 | 85 | 1,729 |
| 2014 | 70 | 2,036 |
| 2015 | 75 | 1,946 |
| 2016 | 82 | 1,840 |
| 2017 | 74 | 1,952 |
| 2018 | 92 | 1,715 |
| 2019 | 80 | 1,883 |
| 2020 | 71 | 2,014 |
| 2021 | 54 | 2,484 |
| 2022 | 72 | 2,092 |
| 2023 | 64 | 2,238 |
| 2024 | 73 | 2,074 |
| 2025 | 70 | 2,103 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 40 | 767 |
| 2012 | 42 | 765 |
| 2013 | 35 | 850 |
| 2014 | 33 | 889 |
| 2015 | 53 | 646 |
| 2016 | 56 | 631 |
| 2017 | 70 | 554 |
| 2018 | 60 | 604 |
| 2019 | 47 | 707 |
| 2020 | 42 | 755 |
| 2021 | 50 | 695 |
| 2022 | 51 | 670 |
| 2023 | 50 | 691 |
| 2024 | 63 | 602 |
| 2025 | 48 | 728 |

## People named Omer

- Omer Nishani, Albanian politician (1887-1954)
- Omer Adam, American-Israeli singer
- Ömer Eldarov, Azerbaijani sculptor (born 1927)
- Omer Beaugendre, French cyclist (1883–1954)
- Omer Simeon, American jazz clarinetist (1902–1959)
- Omer Verschoore, cyclist (1888–1931)
- Omer Hoffman, Belgian artistic gymnast
- Omer Joldić, Bosnia and Herzegovina footballer
- Jean Monnet, French political economist regarded by as a chief architect of European unity (1888-1979)
- Soprano, French rapper, singer and songwriter
- Omar Fayed, Egyptian association football player
- Ibn al-Mulaqqin, 14th-century Islamic scholar

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.