Amar

given name · Hindi · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Amar is a given name, most frequently recorded in India, where it is the 57th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Hindi and , written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: mason; place list spans Iberia, Mediterranean, North Africa, Israel, Panama.

rarermore common
  • JOJordan1 in 30◐
  • BDBangladesh1 in 194
  • PKPakistan1 in 202

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈444K ●

across 8 countries

#370 ●

of 16M given names

10 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
395 ●

3.7M records

Official registry-verified

1 in 515 ◐

Kazakhstan

Spellings & scripts●

AmarLatin · Hindi●1.5M records
АмирCyrillic · Russian●220K records
অমরBengali · Bangla●4K records
ᲔმირGeorgian · Georgian●809 records
อามัลThai · Thai●149 records
아미르Hangul · Korean●2 records
ԱմիրArmenian · Armenian●1 records
අමරSinhala · Sinhala●0 records
అమరTelugu · Telugu●0 records
ΑμανGreek · Greek●0 records

13 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Amir in US United States, MY Malaysia, GB United Kingdom and 11 more, Amin in BD Bangladesh, EG Egypt, MA Morocco, Амир in KZ Kazakhstan, RU Russia, KG Kyrgyzstan and Aman in BR Brazil, EC Ecuador.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

mason; place list spans Iberia, Mediterranean, North Africa, Israel, Panama

Sources 1

  • Dicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…

Attested across 8 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Amar is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
IN India#574,088,6191.6M rec.—2.1KAmar258
BD Bangladesh#801,376,98340K rec.—listedAmin137
TR Türkiye#159562,932608K rec.—2KEmir110
PK Pakistan#11470,07038K rec.—3Ameen123
US United States#943322,278493K rec.1 in 1K322KAmir395
RU Russia#197221,965123K rec.—#75Амир152
JO Jordan—214,7152.7K rec.——Amman60
MY Malaysia#35106,057102K rec.——Amir96
EG Egypt#12377,20039K rec.—listedAmin152
GB United Kingdom#49364,35948K rec.—48Amir162
IR Iran—49,09243K rec.——Amir119
SY Syria#6647,10964K rec.——Amar33

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • Hindi1.5M55%
  • 818K29%
  • English75K3%
  • Arabic72K3%
  • French71K3%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Hindi1,526,58155%
817,58729%
English74,7003%
Arabic72,0533%
French71,1423%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Amar is also recorded as 7 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate given name850K records spelled Amar3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, Morocco, United States, Ethiopia

    Also written Amár, Âmar

  • French given name112K records spelled Amar40 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Spain, Algeria, Belgium

    Also written Amàr, Amãr, Àmàr, Àmar, Ãmâr

  • Spanish given name51K records spelled Amar60 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Spain, India, United States, Philippines

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Àmar, Âmar, A'Mar, Ämar, Ãmãr

  • Turkish given name5.9K records spelled Amar19 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Türkiye, Syria, India, United States

    Also written Ãmâř, A͠m͠a͠r͠, Àmãr, Àmar, Âmåř

  • Albanian given name5.8K records spelled Amar6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Albania, Kosovo, India, United States

    Also written Àmår, Ãmär, Ámáŕ, Àmäř, Ämàr

  • Hebrew surname5.7K records spelled Amar3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Israel, India, United States, Morocco

    Also written עאמר, עמאר

  • Macedonian given name4.6K records spelled Amar31 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in North Macedonia, Croatia, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Poland

    Languages: Macedonian, Croatian, Polish

    Also written Амар, Ammar, Аммар, Amäŕ, Ãmmãr

59 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Amar is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Italian, variante regional de Aimar

    as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos

  • Long life.

    as a nameThe African book of names

  • In Italian, Variante di Aimar

    as a nameDizionario dei cognomi italiani

  • In English, v. AYMER

    as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames

  • In Portuguese, to love

    as a wordA Frequency Dictionary of Portuguese

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Over time●

02.5K5K7.5K10K1900192019401960198020009.1K · 1993

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Amar in naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls), India, 1899–2017
Yearrecords
189912
19001
19071
19091
19102
19125
19138
19147
19157
191612
191714
191812
191932
192056
192151
192277
192395
1924120
192591
1926143
1927173
1928150
1929283
1930208
1931269
1932455
1933326
1934549
1935423
1936509
1937652
1938554
1939928
1940841
1941906
19421,387
19431,156
19441,633
19451,342
19461,625
19471,987
19481,696
19492,316
19501,962
19512,175
19522,987
19532,182
19543,050
19552,652
19562,995
19573,614
19583,293
19594,263
19603,668
19613,679
19625,185
19633,930
19645,172
19654,458
19665,037
19675,373
19684,893
19695,298
19705,284
19715,014
19725,832
19735,432
19745,344
19755,513
19766,069
19775,305
19785,542
19795,577
19805,272
19816,149
19827,335
19837,670
19848,254
19857,476
19866,419
19877,765
19887,369
19897,103
19907,083
19917,960
19928,583
19939,141
19947,735
19956,784
19963,805
19973,524
19982,378
1999241
20007
20017
20023
20031
20041
20062
200733
2008510
20092
2010253
201157
201241
201341
20141,178
2015319
20163
201716

IN naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) — 110 years between 1899–2017. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

14001600180020002200Guru Amar Das, b. 1479Amar Singh I, b. 1559Agdanbuugyn Amar, b. 1886Amar Bose, b. 1929Amar Mohile, b. 1950Amar Singh, b. 1956Amar Osim, b. 1967Amar Sifodil, b. 1975Amar Benikhlef, b. 1982Amar Dedić, b. 2002

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence●

Attested in 111 sources across 58 countries.

Official registers attesting Amar
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024)20246.8K#687
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex20205.6K#3,441
XK KosovoASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search)—4.9K#70
AL AlbaniaINSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts)—2.5K#134
ES SpainINE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—2.1K#2,308
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—2.1K#2,308
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 202020201.8K#15,395
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 201020101.8K#16,108
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—1.7K#2,005
ES SpainINE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—1.4K#963
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 200020001.3K#19,445
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—1.2K#1,472

Reference works 8

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikipedia surname tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
  • jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 948 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Amar?
We estimate roughly 444 thousand people bear Amar (counting its spellings and scripts) across 8 countries in our records.
In which country does Amar have the most bearers?
Amar is most frequently recorded in India, where it is most often spelled amar.
How common is Amar compared with other names?
In India, Amar is the 57th most common given name of 4,777,337 given names recorded there.
Is Amar a male or female name?
Amar is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
What does the name Amar mean?
Recorded meaning: mason; place list spans Iberia, Mediterranean, North Africa, Israel, Panama
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Amar” — the 57th most common given name in India. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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