How Many People Are Named Omer?

3,469

people named Omer are alive in the United States today (estimate)

About 1 in 98,525 people in the US has this name

Based on 8,923 babies named Omer in Social Security records from 1880 to 2025, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.

Popularity Rank

#4,698

💎💎 Very Rare

Rank Among Boy Names

#1,764

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Peak Year

1918

239 births

Trend

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Stable (last 10 years)

📖 Name Origin & Meaning

Origin: Hebrew
Pronunciation: ‘om-ER
Gender: Primarily Male

Meaning:

Means "sheaf of wheat" in Hebrew.

Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.

⚧ Gender Distribution

Female
0.4%
Male
99.6%

Almost all of the babies given the name Omer (99.6%) were boys.

👥 Age Distribution

The average person named Omer alive today is about 34 years old, and 57% are under 30. Half of them were between 11 and 54 in 2025.

Under 30 1,961
56.5%
30 to 59 721
20.8%
60 and over 787
22.7%

📈 Popularity Over Time

Omer first appears in the records in 1880 and was given most often in 1918, to 239 babies. In 2025, 70 babies got the name.

Babies given the name each year, 1880 to 2025

🏆 Rank History

Omer has never been one of the 100 most popular boys' names. Its best rank was #263, in 1891. In 2025 it ranked #2,103.

Boys
Rank in 2025#2,103
Best rank#263 (1891)
Years in the top 100None
Rank in its biggest decade#454 in the 1920s

📍 State-Wise Distribution

People named Omer alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).

More people named Omer were born in New York than in any other state: about 400 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Omer was given 6.6 times as often in Kentucky, 4.9 times in Maine and 4.3 times in Rhode Island.

New York 400
California 202
Texas 137
New Jersey 100
Kentucky 96
Illinois 92
Florida 71
Virginia 48
Indiana 39
Massachusetts 27
Michigan 18
Missouri 12
Oklahoma 11
Georgia 8
Ohio 8
Tennessee 7
Wisconsin 6
Arkansas 6
Minnesota 5
Maryland 5
Iowa 5
Maine 3
West Virginia 2
Pennsylvania 1
Rhode Island 1

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