Umar

maleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Umar: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Umar: Recorded every year since 1996, it reached #200 in 2000, and it stood at #234 in 2025.

3registrars recorded it
40times a registrar ranked it
30years from first to last
#200highest recorded position
13groupings it qualifies for

Region

Falling

among boys in England and Wales · 1996–2025

View as table

England and Wales · Boys rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#226
1997	#234
1998	#232
1999	#228
2000	#200
2001	#220
2002	#203
2003	#212
2004	#215
2005	#220
2006	#231
2007	#249
2008	#251
2009	#261
2010	#260
2011	#259
2012	#279
2013	#268
2014	#251
2015	#252
2016	#254
2017	#281
2018	#295
2019	#279
2020	#274
2021	#249
2022	#305
2023	#258
2024	#239
2025	#234

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

FallingEngland and Wales · Boys

Recorded in official data among boys in England and Wales in every year from 1996 to 2025.

In 2025: #234 among boys in England and Wales, #676 among boys in Republic of Ireland.

Official data from 3 national registrars across 3 regions, 1996–2025 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1996
First recorded at #226 among boys in England and Wales in 1996 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Boys
Highest recorded1996–2025
Highest recorded position: #200 among boys in England and Wales, in 2000 (recorded 1996–2025).
England and Wales · Boys
Most recent2025
Most recently recorded at #234 among boys in England and Wales, in 2025.
England and Wales · Boys

Umar appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Boys, which has ranked it in 30 years beginning in 1996, and has registered 5,146 births with the name.

Umar across 2 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Umar's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
England and Wales · Boys	#226 (1996)	#200 (2000)	#234 (2025)	30 of 30	5,146 (1996–2025)	214 (2025)
Republic of Ireland · Boys	#500 (2003)	#495 (2017)	#676 (2025)	9 of 23	32 (2003–2025)	6 (2017)

Umar by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Umar in England and Wales · Boys, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	530	4 of 10	133
2000s	1,651	10 of 10	165
2010sbusiest	1,859	10 of 10	186
2020s	1,106	6 of 10	184

Across England and Wales · Boys, the 2010s were its busiest decade, averaging 186 births a year.

Its sharpest single-year move came between 2021 and 2022, when recorded births fell by 41, from 188 to 147.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Umar appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 3 regions, from 1996 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #200 in England and Wales in 2000.

Umar's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2025	England and Wales	male	#234	214	High	Verified
2024	England and Wales	male	#239	206	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	male	#258	178	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	male	#305	147	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	male	#249	188	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#274	173	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#279	175	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	male	#295	165	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	male	#281	184	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	male	#254	207	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	male	#252	204	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	male	#251	212	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	male	#268	179	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	male	#279	168	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	male	#259	185	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	male	#260	180	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	male	#261	171	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	male	#251	172	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	male	#249	168	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	male	#231	175	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	male	#220	165	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	male	#215	171	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	male	#212	161	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	male	#203	166	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	male	#220	139	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	male	#200	163	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	male	#228	134	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	male	#232	131	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	male	#234	129	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	male	#226	136	High	Verified
2025	Republic of Ireland	male	#676	4	High	Verified
2024	Republic of Ireland	male	#785	3	High	Verified
2019	Republic of Ireland	male	#764	3	High	Verified
2018	Republic of Ireland	male	#749	3	High	Verified
2017	Republic of Ireland	male	#495	6	High	Verified
2015	Republic of Ireland	male	#699	3	High	Verified
2013	Republic of Ireland	male	#605	4	High	Verified
2006	Republic of Ireland	male	#596	3	High	Verified
2003	Republic of Ireland	male	#500	3	High	Verified
2024	Scotland	male	#727	3	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland
Scotland hub — collected by National Records of Scotland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 3 registrars between 1996 and 2025, ranked in 30 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #200, first reached in 2000.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 214 births, registered in England and Wales in 2025.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2003, and 28 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

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Umarah · #2627, 18y
Umayma · #1752, 24y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 3 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Khadijah · #200, 30y
Ruan · #200, 28y
Rafe · #201, 30y
Reo · #199, 26y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1990 and 1999.

Jace · #200, 29y
Khadijah · #200, 30y
Ruan · #200, 28y
Effie · #201, 30y

Umar was ranked #200 in England and Wales · Boys in 2000. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Casey#196
Zack#196
Conner#198
Ieuan#199
Arthur#201
Hugo#201
Laurence#203
Hamzah#204

Umar and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,577 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Umar without appearing here.

Umar moved ahead of

Glenn
In 2024 they stood at #785 and #582 in Republic of Ireland · Boys; by 2025 that had become #676 and #829.
Harris
In 2024 they stood at #785 and #582 in Republic of Ireland · Boys; by 2025 that had become #676 and #829.
Grant
In 1998 they stood at #232 and #232 in England and Wales · Boys; by 1999 that had become #228 and #309.
Jonathan
In 2023 they stood at #258 and #258 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2024 that had become #239 and #302.

Moved ahead of Umar

Cillian
In 2021 they stood at #249 and #274 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2022 that had become #305 and #223.
Cooper
In 2011 they stood at #259 and #284 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2012 that had become #279 and #211.
Carter
In 2008 they stood at #251 and #258 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2009 that had become #261 and #207.
Finley
In 1997 they stood at #234 and #484 in England and Wales · Boys; by 1998 that had become #232 and #182.

What's not yet available

Meaning
Origin
Pronunciation
Nicknames and spelling variants

Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 3 regions, from 1996 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #200 in England and Wales in 2000. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Umar

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What the data shows

Popularity journey

Umar across 2 official records

Umar by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Umar appears in

Popularity data

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Also first recorded in the 1990s

Names published alongside Umar

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Umar at a glance

Umar across 2 official records

Umar by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Umar appears in

What the record shows

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Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Names published alongside Umar

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