Oumar
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Oumar is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Senegal than in any other country, where it is the 15th most common given name.
- SNSenegal≈1 in 163(inferred from the name graph)
- MLMali≈1 in 825
- GNGuinea≈1 in 168
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.
- Senegal (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 236 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 163 (inferred from the name graph)
≈97,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Senegal, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 10 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Oumar 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SN Senegal | #15 | ≈97,000 est. | ≈1 in 163 | 79 | Oumar | 68 |
| GN Guinea | — | ≈74,000 est. | ≈1 in 168 | 10 | — | 23 |
| TD Chad | #2 | ≈61,000 est. | ≈1 in 277 | 3 | Oumar | 32 |
| CI Côte d’Ivoire | #798 | ≈55,000 est. | ≈1 in 497 | 907 | Oumar | 28 |
| ML Mali | #5 | ≈24,000 est. | ≈1 in 825 | 20 | Oumar | 51 |
| ES Spain | — | 1,688 | 1 in 30K | 1.7K | Oumar | 51 |
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: DGE — candidate declarations, 41 party/coalition lists (legislatives anticipees 17 Nov 2024); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names; nomprenoms.ci — ranked Ivorian surname frequencies; ANGE — 2025 senatorial election ballots (BULLETIN DE VOTE); DGE — Liste provisoire des candidatures communales Conakry 2026. 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- ʿUmar Talb. 1797SNnot in their usual nameWest African political leader, Islamic scholar, and Toucouleur military commander
- Oumar Tatam Lyb. 1963MLMalian politician
- Frédéric Kanoutéb. 1977FRnot in their usual nameMalian-French footballer (born 1977)
- Oumar Tchomogob. 1978BJBeninese and French footballer
- Oumar Kalabaneb. 1981GNGuinean footballer
- Oumar Sissokob. 1987FRMalian footballer
- Alpha Wannb. 1989FRnot in their usual nameFrench rapper
- Oumar Niasseb. 1990SNSenegalese footballer
- Cheick Doucouréb. 2000MLnot in their usual nameMalian association football player
- Oumar Soletb. 2000FRFrench, Ivorian and Central African association 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 57 sources across 37 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 1.7K | #1,974 |
| ES Spain | INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 1.4K | #978 |
| SN Senegal | DGE — candidate declarations, 41 party/coalition lists (legislatives anticipees 17 Nov 2024) | 2024 | 79 | #16 |
| ML Mali | Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names | — | 20 | #11 |
| GN Guinea | DGE — Liste provisoire des candidatures communales Conakry 2026 | 2026 | 10 | #6 |
| TD Chad | ANGE — 2025 senatorial election ballots (BULLETIN DE VOTE) | 2025 | 3 | — |
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- 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
- Is Oumar a male or female name?
- Oumar 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 are other forms of the name Oumar?
- In the etymology graph, Omar, Umar and Umair are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Oumar have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 97 thousand people named Oumar in Senegal, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled oumar.
- How common is the name Oumar?
- In Spain, the national register counted 1,688 people named Oumar, about 1 in 30 thousand residents.
- How common is Oumar compared with other names?
- In Senegal, Oumar is the 15th most common given name of 3,375 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Oumar?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/oumarThe 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, “Oumar” — the 15th most common given name in Senegal. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.