Umaru
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ʊmaɹuː/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Umaru is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Spain than in any other country. In Nigeria it is the 58th most common surname. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Arabic عُمَر (ʕumar).
- BEBelgium1 in 3.9M(measured from records)
- ESSpain1 in 4.2M
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Spain (measured from records)
- Sources
- 93 (measured from records)
- 1 in 3.9M (inferred from the name graph)
12 people
Highest-authority source
Belgium
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Borrowed from Arabic عُمَر (ʕumar).
Sources 1
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Umaru 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | — | 12 | 1 in 4.2M | 70 | — | 16 |
| BE Belgium | — | 3 | 1 in 3.9M | 3 | — | 3 |
| NG Nigeria | #58 | — | — | listed | Umaru | 74 |
| US United States | — | — | — | 148 | Umaru | 93 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | — | — | 24 | Umaru | 55 |
| CM Cameroon | — | — | — | — | Umaru | 7 |
| UG Uganda | — | — | — | — | Umaru | 13 |
12 people counted by INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos). 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; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Sylvester Umaru Onub. 1938NGNigerian judge
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 10 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 24 | #80,577 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 12 | #109,635 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 3 | #123,298 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 1
- 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 Umaru mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from Arabic عُمَر (ʕumar). Recorded by Wiktionary.
- How do you pronounce Umaru?
- A machine transcription gives /ʊmaɹuː/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Umaru have the most bearers?
- In Spain, the national register counted about 12 people named Umaru, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Umaru most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Umaru is densest in Belgium — about 1 in 3.9 million people — even though Spain holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Umaru?
- In Spain, the national register counted 12 people named Umaru, about 1 in 4.2 million residents.
- How common is Umaru compared with other names?
- In Nigeria, Umaru is the 58th most common surname of 346,007 surnames 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/umaruThe 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, “Umaru” — the 58th most common surname in Nigeria. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.