Umara

given name · Latin script

Meaning: plural of emir

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

(measured from records)Officially recorded in 8 countries

Pronunciation:

Umara is a given name used for both men and women, written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country.

  • INIndia≈1 in 10K(inferred from the name graph)
  • NGNigeria≈1 in 45K
  • PKPakistan≈1 in 99Kfew records

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 Umara itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

India (inferred from the name graph)

≈150,000 people, est.

5 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Record sources
60 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

≈1 in 10.0K (inferred from the name graph)

India, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Spellings & scripts

(measured from records)
UmaraLatin(measured from records)
УмараCyrillic(measured from records)
עוםרהHebrew(measured from records)
ഉമർMalayalam(measured from records)
უმარაGeorgian(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)

plural of emir

Cited for this meaning 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Where in the world

(measured from records)

Umara 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.

Where Umara is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
IN India#895≈150,000 est.≈1 in 10K1.8KUmara19
US United States—126,840as Omar1 in 2.6K126KUmara50
ES Spain—25,890as Omar1 in 1.9K26K—2
EC Ecuador—14,860as Omar1 in 1.1K15K——
SE Sweden—11,373as Omar1 in 89711K—1
CR Costa Rica—3,908as Omar1 in 1.3K3.9K——
GY Guyana—342as Omar1 in 2.2K342——

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 — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INEC — civil registry names; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; 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 names spelled this way

(inferred from the name graph)

Umara is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Hindi given name22 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, Pakistan, United States, United Kingdom

    Languages: Hindi, Bangla, Urdu

    Also written Umera, Umra, উমরা, Umura, Omura

  • Arabic given name2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Nigeria, Saudi Arabia, Libya

    Also written Umāra

28 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses

(measured from records)

Umara is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Latvian, Umāra, Paparzes pieteka

    as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)

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.

How to address them

(machine-generated)
Informalनमस्ते Umara जी,Hi Umara, (English)

A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.

Evidence

(measured from records)

11 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 8 countries.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Umara mean, and where does it come from?
plural of emir Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
Is Umara a male or female name?
Umara is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
In which country does Umara have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 145 thousand people named Umara in India, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled umara.
How common is the name Umara?
In the United States, the national register counted 126,840 people named Omar in 2020, about 1 in 2.6 thousand residents.
How common is Umara compared with other names?
In India, Umara is the 895th most common given name of 3,760,348 given names recorded there.

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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, “Umara” — the 895th most common given name in India. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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