Oommen
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ʊmmən/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Oommen is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Malayalam ഉമ്മൻ (ummaṉ). This surname is mostly found in Kerala.
- USUnited States1 in 393K(measured from records)
- INIndia1 in 732K
- AEUnited Arab Emirates≈1 in 24K
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.
- India (measured from records)
- Sources
- 173 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 24K (inferred from the name graph)
1,811 people
Highest-authority source
United Arab Emirates, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Borrowed from Malayalam ഉമ്മൻ (ummaṉ). This surname is mostly found in Kerala.
Sources 1
Where in the world(measured from records)
Oommen 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | 1,811 | 1 in 732K | 1.8K | Oommen | 99 |
| US United States | 846 | 1 in 393K | 1.1K | Oommen | 173 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | ≈430 est. | ≈1 in 24K | — | Oommen | 2 |
| MY Malaysia | ≈270 est. | ≈1 in 122K | — | Oommen | 5 |
| CA Canada | ≈140 est. | ≈1 in 275K | — | Oommen | 35 |
| NO Norway | 34 | 1 in 161K | 34 | Oommen | 5 |
1,811 people counted by Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls. 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: Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). 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)
- John Oommenb. 1953INIndian engineer
- Thomas K Oommenb. 1953INIndian bishop
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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 17 sources across 8 countries.
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- 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
- What does the name Oommen mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from Malayalam ഉമ്മൻ (ummaṉ). This surname is mostly found in Kerala. Recorded by Wiktionary.
- How do you pronounce Oommen?
- A machine transcription gives /ʊmmən/ (IPA) for Hindi.
- In which country does Oommen have the most bearers?
- In India, the national register counted about 1.8 thousand people named Oommen, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled oommen.
- How common is the name Oommen?
- In India, the national register counted 1,811 people named Oommen, about 1 in 732 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/oommenThe 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, “Oommen”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.