The OMAR surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	4,173	7358	0.002	16
United States (1880 census)	76	37631	0	2
Change since 1880	+4097	+30273	+N/A	+14
Other Countries
Australia	256	6010	0.002	16
United Kingdom	946	5502	0.002	21

Top States for OMAR by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
California	590	5382	0.002	17
Minnesota	471	1351	0.010	96
New York	345	6288	0.002	18
Texas	270	7744	0.001	13
Michigan	221	6213	0.002	22
Top States for OMAR by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Minnesota	471	1351	0.010	96
North Dakota	38	3315	0.006	59
Washington DC	22	2975	0.004	38
Virginia	205	4459	0.003	29
Maine	29	6220	0.002	23

Notes

Total is the total number of people with that surname.
Rank is the position in the list of names ordered by total (eg, a rank of 1 means that it's the most common name, and a rank of 10 means it's the tenth most common, etc).
Frequency is the percentage of people with that surname.
Per million people is the number of people with that surname per million of the population.

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Figures for top states show firstly the states where most people called OMAR live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called OMAR represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called OMAR in California than any other state, but you are more likely to find a OMAR by picking someone at random in Minnesota than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of OMAR

Region of origin: Africa

Country of origin: Somalia

Religious origin: Muslim

Ethnic distribution of OMAR in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
Mixed Race	902	21.62
White (Hispanic)	298	7.14
Asian/Pacific	266	6.37
Native American/Alaskan	5	0.12
Black/African American	1,246	29.86
White (Caucasian)	1,456	34.89

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the OMAR surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

Similar names to OMAR

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as OMAR.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.