Given name & surname

Almar

Almar is a masculine given name. It is used in Dutch.

Original GermanAdalmar

Meaning & origin

Where it comes from

Almar comes from German.

Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)

How it developed

In German usage, Almar is a short form of ADALMAR. In German usage, Almar is a short form of ADELMAR.

The story

Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1915. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.

From dated birth records

Almar through the years

Babies since 1880
10
5 boys · 5 girls
Most popular year
1915
5 babies
2025
0
Outside the ranked list
2021–25 vs 2016–20
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Too few births to compare
Boys Girls
0246192019401960198020002025Highest share 1915Boys 0.0Girls 0.0
Almar in U.S. Social Security birth records, 1915–2025, per million births of each sex. Years with fewer than five births for a sex are not published and appear as zero. Use the arrow keys to step through years.

By the numbers

The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 5 in 2017. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 129 as a first name in 2020.

From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.

Almar’s family of names

In German usage, Almar is a short form of ADALMAR. In Icelandic usage, Almar has a conventional equivalent in the French form Omer. In German usage, Almar has a related form in ADALMAR.

Walk Almar’s family in the name graph

AlmarAdelmarAdalmarAlmaOmerElmarAlmerHjalmarAylmer

Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.

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Nicknames & forms 2

Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.

Across languages 6

Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.

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