Omar
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in Spanish: Arabic 'the builder', from amara 'to build, inhabit, populate'; borne by the second caliph
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/omaɾ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Omar is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Egypt than in any other country, where it is the 10th most common given name.
- MAMorocco≈1 in 219(inferred from the name graph)
- EGEgypt≈1 in 240
- SYSyria≈1 in 290
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Omar itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Egypt (inferred from the name graph)
- #161 (measured from records)
- 9 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 488 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 219 (inferred from the name graph)
≈430,000 people, est.
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Morocco, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Ömer in TR Türkiye.
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)
A biblical name of Hebrew origin meaning 'eloquent' or 'gifted speaker'. It is distinct from the common Arabic name Omar, though they share a similar phonetic quality.
Sources 1
- Biblical Names Compiled Database
Attested across 16 languages in the etymology graph.
How Omar is read(measured from records)
Omar is one spelling over 3 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Spanish60%
Arabic 'the builder', from amara 'to build, inhabit, populate'; borne by the second caliph.
as a nameDiccionario etimológico de nombres propios
- Arabic13%
West African and Somali Muslim name: 'most high'; associated with a follower of the Prophet Muhammad.
as a nameAfrican Names
Variant of ʿUmar, a major early Islamic name.
as a nameAfrican Muslim Names
- English11%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Omar in English.
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Omar 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| EG Egypt | #10 | ≈430,000 est. | ≈1 in 240 | listed | Omar | 211 |
| TR Türkiye | #17 | 422,803as Ömer | 1 in 194 | 423K | Ömer | 169 |
| MA Morocco | #16 | ≈160,000 est. | ≈1 in 219 | — | Omar | 170 |
| US United States | #723 | 126,840 | 1 in 2.6K | 126K | Omar | 488 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | #18 | ≈100,000 est. | ≈1 in 336 | — | Omar | 203 |
| SY Syria | #14 | ≈67,000 est. | ≈1 in 290 | — | Omar | 83 |
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: TÜİK NIP — most used given names; 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)
Omar is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
A biblical name of Hebrew origin meaning 'eloquent' or 'gifted speaker'. It is distinct from the common Arabic name Omar, though they share a similar phonetic quality.
as a nameBiblical Names Compiled Database
Eloquent or speaker (derived from the Hebrew root 'amar', meaning 'to speak').
as a nameBiblical Names Compiled Database
Biblical name (apparently meaning ‘talkative’ in Hebrew) borne by a character mentioned in a genealogy (Genesis 36:11). It has been occasionally used from Puritan times down to the present day in America. More often, however, it is of Arabic origin, as in the case of the film actor and international bridge player Omar Sharif (b. 1926 in Egypt).
as a nameA concise dictionary of first names
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)
- Omar Metwallyb. 1USAmerican actor
- Umar ibn Abd al-Azizb. 681SAnot in their usual nameUmayyad caliph from 717 to 720
- Omar Khayyamb. 1048IRPersian mathematician and poet (1048–1131)
- Omar Ali Saifuddien IIIb. 1914BNSultan of Brunei (1914-1986)
- Omar Sharifb. 1932EGEgyptian actor (1932–2015)
- Omar Bongob. 1935GAGabonese politician (1935–2009)
- Omar al-Bashirb. 1944SDPresident of Sudan from 1989 to 2019
- Omar M. Yaghib. 1965JOAmerican chemist of Arabic descent (born 1965)
- Umaro Sissoco Embalób. 1972GWnot in their usual namePresident of Guinea-Bissau from 2020 to 2025
- Don Omarb. 1978USPuerto Rican rapper and actor (born 1978)
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 161 sources across 79 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 126K | #444 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 1.3K | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 359 | #444 |
Reference works 9
- 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
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
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
- Where does the name Omar come from?
- A biblical name of Hebrew origin meaning 'eloquent' or 'gifted speaker'. It is distinct from the common Arabic name Omar, though they share a similar phonetic quality. Recorded by Biblical Names Compiled Database.
- What does the name Omar mean?
- In Spanish, Arabic 'the builder', from amara 'to build, inhabit, populate'; borne by the second caliph.
- Is Omar a male or female name?
- Omar 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 Omar have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 433 thousand people named Omar in Egypt, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled omar.
- How do you pronounce Omar?
- A machine transcription gives /omaɾ/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- What are other forms of the name Omar?
- In the etymology graph, Umar, Umair and Oumar are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How common is the name Omar?
- In the United States, the national register counted 126,840 people named Omar in 2020, about 1 in 2.6 thousand residents.
- How common is Omar compared with other names?
- In Egypt, Omar is the 10th most common given name of 107,792 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/omarThe 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, “Omar” — the 10th most common given name in Egypt. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.