Amar is a male first name. In very rare cases it is also used for girls.
Amar is a well-known name in the US, but is still special. It is currently only given to every ten thousandth boy, and therefore ranks at 1128 in the SmartGenius statistics. This means there are 1,127 boys names that are more common, but also tens of thousands that are much rarer. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Amar.
Amar is a fairly recent phenomenon. In the past, the name wasn't really on the radar of expectant parents. Then, unexpectedly, Amar cried out for attention, reaching its peak in popularity at #986 in our SmartGenius statistics in the year 2005. People over 50 probably didn't have classmates named Amar, for there were many years in which not a single parent chose this first name for their son. Although it also has never been in the top 100 of most popular first names, Amar seems to have been in vogue for a while, especially since the beginning of the new millennium.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Amar was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
155 babies were named Amar in 2022 - that's 1 in 1,213,729 newborn boys. With this number, the boys' name Amar ranked 1,149 in our SmartGenius first name statistics in 2022, the most recent year for which records are available.
You may not know anyone named Amar, but there’s a good chance you live in the same state as someone with that name. In fact, 26 states are home to men and boys named Amar. (To be fair, a given name is only included in a state’s official statistics if there are at least five people with that name living in that state – so it’s entirely possible that there are still a few men and boys named Amar living in one state or another. If your name is Amar and you live outside of the states highlighted on the map, please let us know so we can refine our statistics even further). And while the first name is present in many states, it is still not one of the popular ones. In New York, which has the most people named Amar relative to the population, you still have to ask 20,524 men and boys their names before you hear Amar as an answer just once.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter A is a very popular first letter for boys’ names. That’s because 9.0% of all common boys’ names in the US begin with this letter. Only the first letter J is more common for boys' names.
With four letters, the name Amar is shorter than most other given names. In fact, only 5.5% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly four letters. Just 1.2% of all first names are even shorter, while 93% consist of more than four letters. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
That means that if 9.0% of all boys' names start with an A, this initial letter occurs nearly three times as often as all other letters on average. And by the way: Of all the boys' names that start with an A, Anthony is the most common.
If your name is Amar and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Amar, you can simply say:
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Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Amar
Amar
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
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R
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
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M
A
R
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Amar sounds like this:
