The meaning of the name Omari is not known, it is possibly a Swahili form of the Arabic name Umar. In this case, Omari would also mean ‘populous, flourishing’.
Omari is a first name typically given to boys, but in rare cases also used as a girls name.
The name Omari isn’t among the current fashionable names in our top 10 stats, but nonetheless, it’s still very popular and common. In our SmartGenius ranking of all boys names, Omari ranks 520. Recently, out of every 10,000 newborn boys, approximately 3 were named Omari. In the entire USA, approximately 10,040 people – children, adults and seniors – currently bear the name Omari. That is 0.00 % of all living Americans.
The meaning of the name Omari is not known, it is possibly a Swahili form of the Arabic name Umar. In this case, Omari would also mean ‘populous, flourishing’.
In the U.S.,... Omari is used since the 1980s.
Omari is a fairly recent phenomenon. In the past, the name wasn't really on the radar of expectant parents. Then, unexpectedly, Omari cried out for attention, reaching its peak in popularity at #444 in our SmartGenius statistics in the year 2018. People over 50 probably didn't have classmates named Omari, 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, Omari 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 Omari was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
563 babies were named Omari in 2022 - that's 1 in 292,438 newborn boys. With this number, the boys' name Omari ranked 500 in our SmartGenius first name statistics in 2022, the most recent year for which records are available.
You may not know anyone named Omari, but there’s a good chance you live in the same state as someone with that name. In fact, 34 states are home to men and boys named Omari. (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 Omari living in one state or another. If your name is Omari 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 Georgia, which has the most people named Omari relative to the population, you still have to ask 5,126 men and boys their names before you hear Omari as an answer just once.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter O is pretty rare as an initial letter for boys' names: only 1.8% of all common boys' names in the US begin with an O. The most common first letters of boys' names, by the way, are J, A and D, while X, U and Q are the least common initials of boys' names.
With five letters, the name Omari is comparatively short. In fact, 17.0% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly five letters. Only 7% of all first names are even shorter, while 75% have more than five 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 since 1.8% of all boys’ names begin with an O, this initial occurs only about half as often as the other letters on average. Nevertheless, there are of course single names beginning with an O, which are quite popular
If your name is Omari 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 Omari, you can simply say:
Orange
Mouse
Apple
Rocket
Igloo
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Omari
Omari
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
O
M
A
R
I
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.
O
M
A
R
I
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. Omari sounds like this:
