Amur
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in English: The world's ninth-longest river, forming part of the border between the Far East of Russia and Manchuria in Northeastern China, emptying into the Pacific Ocean through the Strait of Tartary, where the
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/əmʊə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Amur is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Oman than in any other country, where it is the 22nd most common given name.
- RURussia≈1 in 112Kas Амур(inferred from the name graph)
- OMOman≈1 in 2.2K
- QAQatar≈1 in 40K
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 Amur 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.
- Oman (inferred from the name graph)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 102 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 2.2K (inferred from the name graph)
≈2,100 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Oman, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Амур in RU Russia.
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)
The world's ninth-longest river, forming part of the border between the Far East of Russia and Manchuria in Northeastern China, emptying into the Pacific Ocean through the Strait of Tartary, where the mouth of the river faces the northern end of the island of Sakhalin.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
How Amur is read(measured from records)
Amur is one spelling over 5 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.
- Arabic37%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Amur in Arabic.
- English13%
The world's ninth-longest river, forming part of the border between the Far East of Russia and Manchuria in Northeastern China, emptying into the Pacific Ocean through the Strait of Tartary, where the mouth of the river faces the northern end of the island of Sakhalin.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
river, Asia
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
- Russian7.4%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Amur in Russian.
- Hindi5.6%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Amur in Hindi.
- Portuguese5.0%
Amur (long river forming the border between the Far East of Russia and Northeastern China)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)
Amur 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| OM Oman | #22 | ≈2,100 est. | ≈1 in 2.2K | — | Amur | 45 |
| RU Russia | — | ≈1,300 est. | ≈1 in 112K | #779 | Амур | 102 |
| CN China | — | ≈960 est. | ≈1 in 1.5M | — | Amur | 1 |
| US United States | — | 512as Amour | 1 in 650K | 391 | Amur | 36 |
| QA Qatar | — | ≈62 est. | ≈1 in 40K | — | Amur | 8 |
| GE Georgia | — | 37as ამურ | 1 in 108K | 37 | Amur | 3 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | — | ≈26 est. | ≈1 in 380K | — | Amur | 9 |
| BR Brazil | — | 21 | 1 in 10M | 21 | Amur | 14 |
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; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); Georgia PSDA/SDA civil-registry name statistics (per-token API). 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)
Amur 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.
In Turkish, Amur (an oblast of Russia; capital: Blagoveshchensk)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In ksd, Second-person dual pronoun: you two
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Finnish, Amur (Asian river)
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.
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 14 sources across 9 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 21 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 21 | #120,190 |
Reference works 2
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Ismlar.com — Uzbek given-name dictionary (meanings, gender, origin)
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 Amur mean, and where does it come from?
- The world's ninth-longest river, forming part of the border between the Far East of Russia and Manchuria in Northeastern China, emptying into the Pacific Ocean through the Strait of Tartary, where the… Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Amur?
- A machine transcription gives /əmʊə/ (IPA) for Arabic.
- Is Amur a male or female name?
- Amur is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
- In which country does Amur have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 2.1 thousand people named Amur in Oman, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled amur.
- How common is the name Amur?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 21 people named Amur in 2022, about 1 in 10 million residents.
- How common is Amur compared with other names?
- In Oman, Amur is the 22nd most common given name of 4,945 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Amur?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/amurThe 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, “Amur” — the 22nd most common given name in Oman. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.