Umar
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Umar is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Bangladesh than in any other country. Recorded meaning: life; Qur'anic/historical Caliph Umar.
- USUnited States1 in 107K(measured from records)
- PKPakistan≈1 in 2.1M
- NGNigeria≈1 in 322Kas Umor
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Umar itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Bangladesh (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 173 (measured from records)
- 1 in 21K (inferred from the name graph)
≈4,000 named Umor, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Guyana
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)
life; Qur'anic/historical Caliph Umar
Sources 1
- African Muslim Names
Attested across 7 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Umar 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BD Bangladesh | — | ≈4,000 est. | ≈1 in 41K | — | Umar | 46 |
| US United States | — | 3,107 | 1 in 107K | 3.1K | Umar | 173 |
| NG Nigeria | #532 | ≈660 est. | ≈1 in 322K | — | Umar | 52 |
| ES Spain | — | 623 | 1 in 80K | 623 | Umar | 38 |
| SE Sweden | — | 431 | 1 in 24K | 431 | — | 12 |
| NO Norway | — | 206 | 1 in 27K | 694 | — | 12 |
| DK Denmark | — | 148 | 1 in 40K | 148 | — | — |
| PK Pakistan | #207 | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 2.1M | — | Umar | 138 |
| GY Guyana | — | 36 | 1 in 21K | 36 | — | — |
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; SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); 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)
Umar 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 Arabic, life/long-lived; Umar ibn al-Khattab
as a nameAfrican Muslim Names
In English, Arabic; flourishing, long-lived
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In Arabic, the second Khalifa; longevity
as a nameAfrican Muslim Names
In German, s, OD I Umb-: s, HUNNE, sonst < Unb, z. B. Umbreit "nicht bereitwillig, un- fähig" (s. Seltenreich)
as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
longevity, second Khalifa
as a nameWhats in a name = Unaitwaje a Swahili book of 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)
- Umar ibn Al-Khattābb. 586SA2nd Rashidun Caliph from 634 to 644
- Umar ibn Abd al-Azizb. 681SAUmayyad caliph from 717 to 720
- Omar Khayyamb. 1048IRnot in their usual namePersian mathematician and poet (1048–1131)
- Sayyid Ajjal Shams al-Din Omarb. 1211UZnot in their usual nameGovernor of Yunnan (1211-1279)
- Umar Shaikh Mirza IIb. 1456UZHis son was Jahiruddin Mahmud Babur
- Omar al-Mukhtarb. 1858LYnot in their usual nameLeader of the Senussi resistance against the Italian fascist occupation (1858–1931)
- Umar Wirahadikusumahb. 1924ID4th Vice President of Indonesia (1983–1988)
- Omar bin Ladenb. 1981SAnot in their usual nameson of Osama bin Laden (born 1981)
- Umar Eshmurodovb. 1992UZUzbekistani footballer
- Umar al-Aqta9th-century ruler of the Arab emirate of Malatya
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 90 sources across 40 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 3.1K | #5,504 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 694 | #2,037 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 623 | #3,938 |
| ES Spain | INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 484 | #2,160 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 431 | #3,072 |
| NO Norway | SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891) | 2025 | 206 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 202 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 180 | — |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 148 | #1,104 |
| GY Guyana | Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025 | 2025 | 36 | #558 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 20 | #5,504 |
Reference works 8
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Ismlar.com — Uzbek given-name dictionary (meanings, gender, origin)
- 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 Umar mean, and where does it come from?
- life; Qur'anic/historical Caliph Umar Recorded by African Muslim Names.
- In which country does Umar have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 4.0 thousand people named Umor in Bangladesh, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Umar most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Umar is densest in Guyana — about 1 in 21 thousand people — even though Bangladesh holds more of our records for it.
- Is Umar a male or female name?
- Umar 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 Umar?
- In the etymology graph, Omar, Ömer and Oumar are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How common is the name Umar?
- In the United States, the national register counted 3,107 people named Umar in 2020, about 1 in 107 thousand residents.
- How common is Umar compared with other names?
- In Pakistan, Umar is the 207th most common given name of 77,659 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/umarThe 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, “Umar” — the 207th most common given name in Pakistan. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.