Omêr
surname · Latin script
Omêr is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Egypt than in any other country, where it is the 10th most common given name. Recorded meaning: Ultimately from Frankish *Audamār, which consists of Proto-Germanic *audaz (“treasure”) and *mēraz (“fame”). Cognates include Czech and German Otmar. Omêr is also written עומר in Hebrew, Умар in Cyrillic and ኦመር in Ethiopic.
- TRTürkiye1 in 194(measured from records)
- DEGermany≈1 in 12K
- MAMorocco≈1 in 200as Omar
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 Omêr 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)
- Record sources
- 488 (measured from records)
- 1 in 194 (inferred from the name graph)
≈540,000 named Omar, est.
of 15M given names, spellings grouped
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Türkiye
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Omêr in other scripts: Hebrew, Cyrillic, Ethiopic and 5 more
(measured from records)Locally spelled Omar in MX Mexico, EG Egypt, MA Morocco and 2 more and 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)Ultimately from Frankish *Audamār, which consists of Proto-Germanic *audaz (“treasure”) and *mēraz (“fame”). Cognates include Czech and German Otmar. Cognates of *ōd- from *audaz include the first part of the given names Otto, Edward and Edmund. See also Old English ēad. Cognates of *-mǣr-/*-mār- from *mērijaz include: the second part of given names like Sigmar, Dietmar, Ingemar, etc. See Old English mǣre.
Cited for this meaning 3
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wiktionary
- Diccionario etimológico de nombres propios
Attested across 28 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Omêr 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 | ≈540,000 est. | ≈1 in 217 | listed | Omar | 211 |
| TR Türkiye | #17 | 422,803 | 1 in 194 | 423K | Ömer | 169 |
| MX Mexico | #89 | ≈270,000 est. | ≈1 in 493 | 1.3K | Omar | 249 |
| MA Morocco | #16 | ≈190,000 est. | ≈1 in 199 | — | Omar | 170 |
| DZ Algeria | #16 | ≈140,000 est. | ≈1 in 347 | listed | Omar | 97 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | #18 | ≈110,000 est. | ≈1 in 318 | — | Omar | 203 |
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; RENAPO — name frequencies (eduardofv dataset). 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).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Omêr mean, and where does it come from?
- Ultimately from Frankish *Audamār, which consists of Proto-Germanic *audaz (“treasure”) and *mēraz (“fame”). Cognates include Czech and German Otmar. Recorded by The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland and Wiktionary and 1 other source.
- Which countries have the most people named Omêr?
- Mondonomo estimates about 537 thousand people named Omar in Egypt, more than in any other country we hold. After it come Türkiye, Mexico, Morocco and Algeria; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Omêr most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Omêr is densest in Türkiye — about 1 in 194 people — even though Egypt holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Omêr?
- In Türkiye, the national register counted 422,803 people named Omêr in 2025, about 1 in 194 residents.
- How common is Omêr compared with other names?
- In Egypt, Omêr is the 10th most common given name of 107,792 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/om%C3%AArThe 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, “Omêr” — the 10th most common given name in Egypt. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.