Umm
loc · Latin script
Meaning: eli mother. Used as a Kunya, to make a compound of which the first part is Umm
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Umm is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Pakistan than in any other country.
- QAQatar≈1 in 21K(inferred from the name graph)
- SDSudan≈1 in 50K
- AEUnited Arab Emirates≈1 in 12K
carrying the name, as Mondonomo estimates it from our sources: no national register counts it in these countries. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Pakistan (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 58 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 12K (inferred from the name graph)
≈9,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
United Arab Emirates, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
eli mother. Used as a Kunya, to make a compound of which the first part is Umm
Sources 1
- A Dictionary of Muslim Names
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Umm 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PK Pakistan | ≈9,000 est. | ≈1 in 26K | listed | — | 25 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | ≈1,500 est. | ≈1 in 22K | — | Umm | 18 |
| SD Sudan | ≈910 est. | ≈1 in 50K | — | Umm | 3 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | ≈840 est. | ≈1 in 12K | — | Umm | 15 |
| EG Egypt | ≈790 est. | ≈1 in 132K | — | Umm | 11 |
| JO Jordan | ≈680 est. | ≈1 in 16K | — | Umm | 2 |
| BH Bahrain | ≈120 est. | ≈1 in 12K | — | Umm | 3 |
| QA Qatar | ≈120 est. | ≈1 in 21K | — | Umm | 8 |
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: the pk-muslim-names-cc0 register. 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)
Umm is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Arabic, mother; used as an attributive to make a compound name
as a nameA Dictionary of Muslim Names
In Arabic, Arabic/Muslim: 'mother'; linked to Umm Kulthum
as a nameAfrican Names
In Arabic, mother.
as a nameAfrican Muslim 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)
- Umm al-Ala bint YusufESArabic poet from the Andalus Period
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 6 sources across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PK Pakistan | Muslim given names (CC0) | — | — | — |
Reference works 1
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
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 Umm mean, and where does it come from?
- eli mother. Used as a Kunya, to make a compound of which the first part is Umm Recorded by A Dictionary of Muslim Names.
- In which country does Umm have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 9.0 thousand people named Umm in Pakistan, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Umm?
- Mondonomo estimates about 9,000 people in Pakistan have Umm as their first given name, about 1 in 26 thousand residents. No national register counts it there; the figure is ours, calibrated against the registers that do.
What do you want to know about Umm?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ummThe 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, “Umm”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.