Ammar
given name · Latin script
Meaning: agricultor; peasant
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/əmmɑɹ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Ammar is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Pakistan than in any other country. In Syria it is the 43rd most common given name.
- SYSyria≈1 in 383(inferred from the name graph)
- SASaudi Arabia≈1 in 1.2K
- YEYemen≈1 in 1.3K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Pakistan (inferred from the name graph)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 283 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 383 (inferred from the name graph)
≈120,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Syria, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
agricultor; peasant
Sources 1
- Dicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…
Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Ammar counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PK Pakistan | — | ≈120,000 est. | ≈1 in 2K | listed | Ammar | 101 |
| SY Syria | #43 | ≈51,000 est. | ≈1 in 383 | — | Ammar | 69 |
| EG Egypt | #466 | ≈32,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.3K | — | Ammar | 136 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | #171 | ≈28,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.2K | — | Ammar | 154 |
| YE Yemen | #137 | ≈23,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.3K | — | Ammar | 50 |
| DZ Algeria | #131 | ≈22,000 est. | ≈1 in 2K | — | Ammar | 64 |
| US United States | — | 4,313 | 1 in 77K | 4.3K | Ammar | 283 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Ammar is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Swedish, Ammar (Amar) är ett arabiskt namn som betyder ’man med lång livslängd’. Se även → Omar och → Amer, namn med samma ursprung.
as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
In Arabic, virtuous, pious, devout, religious, tolerant
as a nameA Dictionary of Muslim Names
In Arabic, virtuous, pious, devout, religious. . See
as a nameA Dictionary of Muslim Names
مار punctual; tolerant;
as a nameMuslim baby names (our 2,000 meaningful and beautiful names for boys and girls) English-Urdu with Roman
Constructor
as a name25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Ammar ibn Yasirb. 570SACompanion of the Islamic prophet Muhammad (died 657)
- Ammar Farhatb. 1911TNTunisian painter (1911-1987)
- Ammar Souayahb. 1957TNTunisian association football player
- Ammar Abdulhamidb. 1966SYSyrian author
- Ammar al-Hakimb. 1971IQIraqi religious figure and politician
- Ammar Jemalb. 1987TNTunisian association football player
- Ammar Malikb. 1987USsongwriter
- Ammar Hamdyb. 1999EGEgyptian association football player
- Ammar Nemoactor
- Ammar AzizPKPakistani documentary filmmaker
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 89 sources across 44 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 4.3K | #4,358 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 161 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 32 | #4,358 |
Reference works 7
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Ammar mean, and where does it come from?
- agricultor; peasant Recorded by Dicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,….
- How do you pronounce Ammar?
- A machine transcription gives /əmmɑɹ/ (IPA) for Arabic.
- Is Ammar a male or female name?
- Ammar is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What are other forms of the name Ammar?
- In the etymology graph, Amar is a form of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Ammar have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 118 thousand people named Ammar in Pakistan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ammar.
- How common is the name Ammar?
- In the United States, the national register counted 4,313 people named Ammar in 2020, about 1 in 77 thousand residents.
- How common is Ammar compared with other names?
- In Syria, Ammar is the 43rd most common given name of 109,151 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ammarThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Ammar” — the 43rd most common given name in Syria. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.