Umair
Masculine · “Little Umar”
Umair is a diminutive, and Arabic diminutives are affectionate rather than belittling: ʿUmar becomes ʿUmayr, little Umar, and the smaller form became a name in its own right in the first generation of Islam.
How old is the name Umair?
Umair first appears in US birth records in 1982 — 43 years ago. The typical Umair alive today was born around 2009, making them about 16 years old. About 600 people named Umair are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Umair most popular?
Umair peaked in 2003, reaching #3366 nationally. Today it ranks #5399, 2,033 places below that high. See the whole 2003 chart.
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Where it comes from
From ʿUmayr to Umair
The story of Umair
Several companions of Muhammad were called ʿUmayr, and the name has been in continuous Arabic use since. Its heaviest modern use, though, is South Asian: Umair is an ordinary name in Pakistan and among Urdu speakers, where the Arabic name stock has been standard for a thousand years. American records show it from the 1980s with Pakistani and Arab immigration, rising slowly and peaking in 2003, in the general pattern of a name arriving with a growing community rather than with an event or a famous bearer.
Meaning
Little Umar; a diminutive of prosperous life
From Arabic ʿUmayr, the diminutive of ʿUmar, which is connected to the root ʿ-m-r, to live long or to prosper — the same root as ʿumr, a lifespan. The reading is settled. Arabic forms diminutives on a fixed pattern and uses them as full names freely, which is how ʿUmayr, Zubayr and Ḥusayn all came about.
How the name formed
- ʿUmayr
- Umair
Related forms: عمير · عمیر · Ümeyr · Umair
Pronouncing Umair
oo-MYRE
Two syllables, stress on the second, with the ai a diphthong rhyming with fire. The Arabic ʿayn at the start is a pharyngeal consonant that English has no equivalent for and simply drops.
Nicknames for Umair
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1982
- Most boys named
- 201628 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #3366reached in 2003
- Change vs 2024
- +21.4%17 in 2025, from 14
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Umair in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- عمير in Arabic — transliteration
- عمیر in Urdu — same name
- Ümeyr in Turkish — spelling variant
- Umair in Malay — same name
Strongest US states over the last decade: New York, Illinois.
Umairs among us
people named Umair are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 boy in 100,475 born in 2025 was named Umair
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Karin test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Umair's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Karin climbed just as high around 1968, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Karin's path sketches the road Umair is walking now.
Umair sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Umair beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Umair in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US boys given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- The meaning is settled and the diminutive form is warm rather than diminishing.
- Two syllables and five letters keep it short.
- It is recognized across the Arab world and South Asia.
- The opening ʿayn is lost entirely in English speech.
- Umair, Umayr and Omair are all in use in transliteration.
- The ai will be read as a long a by English speakers seeing it cold.
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Frequently asked
- How many Umairs are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 600 people named Umair are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Umair in 2025?
- Umair ranks #5399 among US boy names in 2025, with 17 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Umair?
- About 1 in every 100,475 US boys born in 2025 was named Umair — 17 in all.
- Will my child share the name Umair with classmates?
- Umair will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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