Homer
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About Homer
The name Homer is currently ranked #948 in U.S. births. and peaked for boys at #64 in 1893. It is currently rising in popularity. The name is most popular in HOMER, HOMER, and HOMER. Homer is occasionally used for girls in 1965.
Popularity & trends
Data table
| Year | US rank | Births | Per million |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | #3,561 | 30 | 15.6 |
| 2015 | #3,614 | 30 | 15.7 |
| 2016 | #4,241 | 24 | 12.6 |
| 2017 | #4,029 | 26 | 14 |
| 2018 | #3,470 | 32 | 17.6 |
| 2019 | #4,386 | 23 | 12.8 |
| 2020 | #3,606 | 30 | 17.4 |
| 2021 | #3,529 | 32 | 18.3 |
| 2022 | #3,368 | 35 | 20 |
| 2023 | #3,139 | 39 | 22.8 |
| 2024 | #4,105 | 26 | 15.1 |
| 2025 | #4,769 | 21 | 12.3 |
World rankings
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Famous Homers
- Homer
ancient Greek epic poet
- Homer Calvin Davenport
American political cartoonist
- Homer Hadley Hickam
American novelist and NASA engineer
- Homer Rice
American NFL football player and coach
- Homer Reed Gilbert aka Knuckles Boyle
American NFL football player
- David Dewitt "Homer" Bailey
Jr., American baseball player
- Henry D. "Homer" Haynes
American country music singer of duo Homer & Jethro
- Homer Adolph Plessy
American civil rights activist
- Homer Mensch
American classical bassist
- Homer Ransford Watson
Canadian landscape painter
- Homer Murray (b. 1982)
son of actor Bill Murray
- Homer "Will" Groening (b. 1986)
son of artist/writer/director Matt Groening
- Homer James Jigme Gere (b. 2000)
son of American actor Richard Gere
- Homer Laffoon (b. 2002)
son of actress Anne Heche
- Winslow Homer
American landscape painter
Homer in pop culture
- Homer Jay Simpson
character on TV's "The Simpsons"
- Homer Simpson
character in book/film "The Day of the Locust"
- Homer Flagg
character in the film "Living It Up"
- Homer Wells
character in John Irving's "The Cider House Rules"
- Homer Yannos
character in John Marsden's "Tomorrow When the War Began"
- "Homer Price
" children's book series by Robert McCloskey and its main character
- Homer
sidekick of Snidely Whiplash on animated series "Rocky & Bullwinkle"
- Homer
character in the comic strip Non Sequitur by Wiley
- Homer Pigeon
character in Woody Woodpecker cartoons
- Homer
main character in the Pandora series by Carolyn Hennesy
- Homer Shaw
son of Aidan on TV's "Sex and the City"
- Homer
character on TV's The OA
- H.O.M.E.R.
character in Marvel Universe
- Homer Zuckerman
character from "Charlotte's Web"
Variations & nicknames
- HomerosGreek
- OmeroSpanish
- HomeroSpanish
- HomericoSpanish
