Om
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Lady Om, Kojong's secondary wife; later Sunhon Hwanggwibi
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Om is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Nepal than in any other country.
- IDIndonesia≈1 in 12K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 115K
- NPNepal≈1 in 796
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.
- Nepal (inferred from the name graph)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 247 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 796 (inferred from the name graph)
≈38,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Nepal, 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)
Lady Om, Kojong's secondary wife; later Sunhon Hwanggwibi.
Sources 1
- Korea - A Historical and Cultural Dictionary
Attested across 10 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Om 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NP Nepal | — | ≈38,000 est. | ≈1 in 796 | — | Om | 64 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈22,000 est. | ≈1 in 12K | — | Om | 67 |
| SY Syria | — | ≈15,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.3K | — | Om | 5 |
| MA Morocco | — | ≈11,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.2K | — | Om | 12 |
| PK Pakistan | — | ≈3,900 est. | ≈1 in 59K | — | Om | 26 |
| US United States | — | 2,893 | 1 in 115K | 2.8K | Om | 231 |
| IL Israel | — | ≈1,700 est. | ≈1 in 5.2K | — | Om | 7 |
| IN India | #302 | — | — | 12 | Om | 247 |
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: Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; 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)
Om 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.
creation; development and destruction; essence of life; the sacred syll-able which is the seed of all mantras; assent; so be it; the sound is a combination of ‘A’ which signifies Visnu, ‘U’ for Siva and ‘M” signifying Brahma, the sound is called ‘Pranava’ (essence of life) or ‘Brahman’ (ultimate essence)
as a nameThe Penguin book of Hindu names for boys
In English, river, Russia
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
In Akan, an-tid, pL a-, province. man ti ase, subordinate towns, dependent of a leading tmcn (as the coast towns from Osu to Nino are dependent of Nkrah pa)
as a wordDictionary of the Asante and Fante Language called Tshi (Chwee, Twi)
In Dutch, (a)round
as a wordA Frequency Dictionary of Dutch
In chk, alternative spelling of omw (“your”)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)
- Om Prakash Kohlib. 1935INIndian politician
- Om P. Gandhib. 1935USresearcher
- Om Purib. 1949INIndian actor (1949–2017)
- Om Prakash Rawatb. 1953IN22nd Chief Election Commissioner of India
- Om Malikb. 1966INIndian-American writer (1966–2026)
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 49 sources across 26 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 2.8K | #5,761 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 123 | #5,761 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 66 | — |
| IN India | naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) | 1998 | 1 | — |
| IN India | naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) | 1996 | 1 | — |
| IN India | Indian names with gender (Kaggle) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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 Om mean, and where does it come from?
- Lady Om, Kojong's secondary wife; later Sunhon Hwanggwibi. Recorded by Korea - A Historical and Cultural Dictionary.
- Is Om a male or female name?
- Om 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.
- In which country does Om have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 38 thousand people named Om in Nepal, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled om.
- How common is the name Om?
- In the United States, the national register counted 2,893 people named Om in 2020, about 1 in 115 thousand residents.
- How common is Om compared with other names?
- In India, Om is the 302nd most common given name of 3,760,348 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/omThe 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, “Om” — the 302nd most common given name in India. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.