Given name & surname · also Latin
Aimar
Aimar is a masculine given name from Vulgar Latin, ultimately from Proto-Germanic. It is used in Spanish and Basque.
Meaning & origin
Where it comes from
Aimar comes from Vulgar Latin, and ultimately from Proto-Germanic.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
From Vulgar Latin Aymarus, from Proto-Germanic *haimaz.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 2002. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Aimar through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 437
- 261 boys · 176 girls
- Most popular year
- 2010
- 49 babies
- 2025
- 29
- #7,143 for girls · #6,155 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- +174%
- Rising fast
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 15 U.S. birth records for girls, ranking No. 7,143 among girls’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Its largest published annual count for girls was 49 in 2010. It also appeared in 14 birth records for boys in 2025. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 279 as a first name in 2020; 122 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Aimar’s family of names
In French usage, Aimar has a related form in Amar. In Greek usage, Aimar as a surname is a transliteration of Αιμάρ.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: nicknames and forms.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
People named Aimar
- Aimar OrozSpanish footballerborn 2001
- Aimar SherSwedish footballerborn 2002
- Aymard of ClunyAbbot of Cluny910–965
- Aymer, Count of AngoulêmeLast Count of Angoulême of the House of Taillefer1160–1202
- Aimar-Charles-Marie de NicolaïFrench magistrate (1747-1794)
- Aimar SagastibelzaSpanish footballerborn 1984
- Aimar August SørenssenNorwegian jurist and politician (1823-1908)
- Aymer de ValenceBishop of Winchester1228–1260
- Aimar MoratallaSpanish footballerborn 1987
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
Appears in
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