Given name
Omkar
“a sacred letter and sound”
Omkar is used as a given name. One Hindi interpretation is “a sacred letter and sound.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One Hindi interpretation is “a sacred letter and sound.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Hindi.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1996. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Omkar through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 353
- 353 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2008
- 22 babies
- 2025
- 9
- #8,731 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- −47%
- Cooling
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 9 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 8,731 among boys’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Its largest published annual count for boys was 22 in 2008. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 818 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.
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