Omid
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Omid är ett persiskt och kurdiskt namn som betyder ’hopp’
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Omid is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Afghanistan than in any other country, where it is the 37th most common given name.
- AFAfghanistan≈1 in 461(inferred from the name graph)
- IRIran≈1 in 13K
- DEGermany≈1 in 45K
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.
- Afghanistan (inferred from the name graph)
- 4 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 246 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 461 (inferred from the name graph)
≈79,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Afghanistan, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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)
Omid är ett persiskt och kurdiskt namn som betyder ’hopp’.
Sources 1
- Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Omid 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AF Afghanistan | #37 | ≈79,000 est. | ≈1 in 461 | 2 | Omid | 27 |
| IR Iran | — | ≈6,700 est. | ≈1 in 13K | — | Omid | 94 |
| US United States | — | 1,790 | 1 in 186K | 1.8K | Omid | 246 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈1,800 est. | ≈1 in 45K | 1 | Omid | 117 |
| SE Sweden | — | 991 | 1 in 10K | 991 | Omid | 39 |
| AT Austria | — | ≈480 est. | ≈1 in 18K | 62 | Omid | 49 |
| NO Norway | — | 241 | 1 in 23K | 940 | Omid | 23 |
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; the de-leipzig-vornamen register; Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024). 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)
Omid is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, A transliteration of the Persian male given name امید (omid).
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)
- Omid Kordestanib. 1963USIranian-American businessman
- Omid Djalilib. 1965GBIranian-British stand-up comedian
- Omid Nooshinb. 1974GBBritish film director (1974-2018)
- Omid Nouripourb. 1975DEIranian-German politician
- Omid Abtahib. 1979USAmerican actor
- Omid Norouzib. 1986IRIrani wrestler
- Omid Ebrahimib. 1987IRfootballer
- Omid Alishahb. 1992IRIranian association football player
- Omid Popalzayb. 1996AFAfghan association football player
- Omid Noorafkanb. 1997IRIranian football player
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 52 sources across 27 countries.
Reference works 5
- 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)
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
- Is Omid a male or female name?
- Omid 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.
- What does the name Omid mean?
- Recorded meaning: Omid är ett persiskt och kurdiskt namn som betyder ’hopp’.
- What are other forms of the name Omid?
- In the etymology graph, Ümit, Umut and Umid are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Omid have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 79 thousand people named Omid in Afghanistan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled omid.
- How common is the name Omid?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,790 people named Omid in 2020, about 1 in 186 thousand residents.
- How common is Omid compared with other names?
- In Afghanistan, Omid is the 37th most common given name of 21,469 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Omid?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/omidThe 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, “Omid” — the 37th most common given name in Afghanistan. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.