Oman
loc · Latin script
Meaning: (i) a different form of Hammond; (ii) anglicization of Swedish Oman, an invented name meaning literally ‘island-man’
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Oman is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Oman than in any other country.
- OMOman≈1 in 543(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 104K
- SISlovenia1 in 3.1K
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.
- Oman (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 295 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 543 (inferred from the name graph)
≈8,600 people, est.
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 Uman in US United States, PH Philippines, CA Canada and Öman in SE Sweden.
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)
(i) a different form of Hammond; (ii) anglicization of Swedish Oman, an invented name meaning literally ‘island-man’
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Where in the world(measured from records)
Oman 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 | ≈8,600 est. | ≈1 in 543 | — | Oman | 31 |
| US United States | 3,198 | 1 in 104K | 3.2K | Uman | 295 |
| SE Sweden | 2,008 | 1 in 5.1K | 2K | Öman | 19 |
| PH Philippines | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 90K | — | Uman | 19 |
| SI Slovenia | 668 | 1 in 3.1K | 668 | — | 17 |
| CA Canada | ≈530 est. | ≈1 in 71K | — | Uman | 67 |
| FI Finland | 327 | 1 in 17K | 327 | — | 2 |
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 — Surname Frequency 2010; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup). 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)
Oman 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.
In English, Orkney and Shetland name, from ON Harmmdr ‘high protector’ or Ámundi ‘great-grandfather-protector’; first attested Leuric Omundi filius c1095 Bury (Sf)
as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames
In English, Scottish name from Old Norse Amund, possibly Hámundr ‘great gift’; recorded in 1546 as Edduard Homondsone.
as a nameScottish Surnames
life giving; protection; favour; friend; protector
as a nameThe Penguin book of Hindu names for boys
In English, sultanate, Asia; Gulf of, arm of
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
In English, Biblical name
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper 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)
- Charles Omanb. 1860GBBritish military historian (1860-1946)
- Carola Omanb. 1897GBnovelist, biographer, children's writer (1897-1978)
- Julia Trevelyan Omanb. 1930GBset designer (1930-2003)
- Valentin Omanb. 1935ATAustrian painter and sculptor (born 1935)
- Miro Omanb. 1936SIYugoslavian ski jumper (1936-2012)
- Ralph Omanb. 1940USAmerican lawyer
- Charles P. Omanb. 1948USAmerican economist
- Chad Omanb. 1965USAmerican film producer
- Irena Omanb. 1967SISlovenian politician
- Ken Omanb. 1982IEIrish footballer
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 37 sources across 20 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 3.2K | #10,079 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 3.2K | #9,431 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 3.1K | #9,818 |
| SI Slovenia | stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank) | — | 668 | #355 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 176 | #39,915 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 30 | #37,144 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 20 | #24,907 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 20 | #25,811 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 12 | #39,915 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 7 | #41,555 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 6 | #51,941 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2000 | 5 | — |
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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
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 Oman mean, and where does it come from?
- (i) a different form of Hammond; (ii) anglicization of Swedish Oman, an invented name meaning literally ‘island-man’ Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- In which country does Oman have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 8.6 thousand people named Oman in Oman, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled oman.
- How common is the name Oman?
- In the United States, the national register counted 3,198 people named Oman in 2010, about 1 in 104 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/omanThe 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, “Oman”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.