Oumarou
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Oumarou is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Cameroon than in any other country, where it is the 35th most common given name.
- CMCameroon≈1 in 610(inferred from the name graph)
- NENiger≈1 in 638
- BFBurkina Faso≈1 in 697
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.
- Cameroon (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 139 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 610 (inferred from the name graph)
≈45,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Cameroon, 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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 11 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Oumarou 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CM Cameroon | #35 | ≈45,000 est. | ≈1 in 610 | 1 | Oumarou | 39 |
| NE Niger | #4 | ≈36,000 est. | ≈1 in 638 | 2 | Oumarou | 31 |
| BF Burkina Faso | #98 | ≈30,000 est. | ≈1 in 697 | — | Oumarou | 19 |
| CI Côte d’Ivoire | — | ≈6,100 est. | ≈1 in 4.5K | 233 | Oumarou | 13 |
| TG Togo | #402 | ≈5,800 est. | ≈1 in 1.5K | — | Oumarou | 7 |
| ES Spain | — | 120 | 1 in 417K | 120 | — | 13 |
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: Assemblee Nationale du Cameroun — sitting-MP roster, 10eme legislature (2020-2025); nomprenoms.ci — ranked Ivorian surname frequencies; Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos). 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)
- Oumarou Kanazoéb. 1927BFBurkinabé entrepreneur (1927-2011)
- Oumarou Almab. 1951NENigerien politician
- Oumarou Hamanib. 1972NENigerien researcher
- Oumarou Mazadoub. 1975CMCameroonian politician
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 18 sources across 14 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 120 | #13,672 |
| ES Spain | INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 97 | #7,558 |
| NE Niger | Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names | — | 2 | #53 |
| CM Cameroon | Assemblee Nationale du Cameroun — sitting-MP roster, 10eme legislature (2020-2025) | 2020 | 1 | #5 |
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 Oumarou a male or female name?
- Oumarou 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 Oumarou?
- In the etymology graph, Omar, Umar and Umair are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Oumarou have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 45 thousand people named Oumarou in Cameroon, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled oumarou.
- How common is the name Oumarou?
- In Spain, the national register counted 120 people named Oumarou, about 1 in 417 thousand residents.
- How common is Oumarou compared with other names?
- In Cameroon, Oumarou is the 35th most common given name of 9,064 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/oumarouThe same 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), and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Oumarou” — the 35th most common given name in Cameroon. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.