Oma
given name · Latin script
Meaning: A township in Gêrzê County, Ngari prefecture, Tibet Autonomous Region, China
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/oʊmə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Oma is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Nigeria than in any other country.
- NGNigeria≈1 in 38K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 169K
- GYGuyana1 in 4.1K
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.
- Nigeria (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 193 (measured from records)
- 1 in 4.1K (inferred from the name graph)
≈5,600 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Guyana
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)
A township in Gêrzê County, Ngari prefecture, Tibet Autonomous Region, China.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Oma 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NG Nigeria | — | ≈5,600 est. | ≈1 in 38K | — | Oma | 36 |
| US United States | — | 1,968 | 1 in 169K | 1.8K | Oma | 193 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈480 est. | ≈1 in 166K | — | Oma | 38 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈350 est. | ≈1 in 187K | 8 | Oma | 42 |
| NL Netherlands | — | ≈290 est. | ≈1 in 59K | listed | Oma | 14 |
| GY Guyana | #992 | 181 | 1 in 4.1K | 181 | Oma | 3 |
| AT Austria | — | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 81K | — | Oma | 7 |
| FI Finland | — | 107 | 1 in 52K | 405 | — | 3 |
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; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); the babynamen-king-2020 register; Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. 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)
Oma 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.
life giving; friend; helper; protector
as a nameThe Penguin book of Hindu names for boys
In German, grandma
as a wordA Frequency Dictionary of German
In Māori, run, race, flee, escape, move quickly, run away
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latvian, mood (mental or emotional state)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In huu, brother-in-law (to a female)
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)
- Oma Mäkikossab. 1903FIFinnish writer
- Oma Väyrynenb. 1914FIFinnish poet
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 34 sources across 20 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 1.8K | #7,666 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 405 | #1,206 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 294 | #1,433 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1918 | 284 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1916 | 284 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1915 | 279 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1920 | 273 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1921 | 262 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1924 | 251 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1919 | 245 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1925 | 243 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1923 | 236 | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- 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
- What does the name Oma mean, and where does it come from?
- A township in Gêrzê County, Ngari prefecture, Tibet Autonomous Region, China. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Is Oma a male or female name?
- Oma 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.
- How do you pronounce Oma?
- A machine transcription gives /oʊmə/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Oma have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 5.6 thousand people named Oma in Nigeria, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled oma.
- Where is Oma most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Oma is densest in Guyana — about 1 in 4.1 thousand people — even though Nigeria holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Oma?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,968 people named Oma in 2020, about 1 in 169 thousand residents.
- How common is Oma compared with other names?
- In Guyana, Oma is the 992nd most common given name of 15,440 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/omaThe 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, “Oma” — the 992nd most common given name in Guyana. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.