Names distinctive to Oman

The list of names unique to the Sultanate of Oman*

Female forenames

NameUniqueness Prevalence rank

Male forenames

NameUniqueness Prevalence rank
1. خلفان 73% 1.
2. برستيج 100% 3.
3. برستيجي 100% 4.
4. عماني 23% 2.
5. هود 43% 5.

Surnames

NameUniqueness Prevalence rank
1. البلوشي 65% 1.
2. المقبالي 96% 3.
3. الهنائي 98% 4.
4. الوهيبي 65% 2.
5. السيابي 100% 6.
6. الرواحي 100% 7.
7. البوسعيدي 100% 8.
8. الغافري 100% 9.
9. الشكيلي 100% 11.
10. الفارسي 35% 5.
11. الشحي 66% 10.
12. البادي 70% 13.
13. الحراصي 100% 17.
14. الدرعي 63% 16.
15. الهطالي 100% 19.
16. الرحبي 24% 12.
17. الريامي 35% 15.
18. البطاشي 100% 22.
19. البريكي 25% 14.
20. الشيدي 100% 25.
21. البلوشيه 100% 26.
22. الريسي 80% 24.
23. العماني 86% 29.
24. السناني 40% 18.
25. المحروقي 60% 28.

Distinctive names in
the related** countries

CountrySimilarity
Kuwait 48%
Qatar 47%
United Arab Emirates (the) 46%
Saudi Arabia 45%
Bahrain 43%
Libya 38%
Egypt 34%
Syrian Arab Republic (the) 32%
Lebanon 32%

*The rank of the unique name is the geometric average of the name uniqueness and the name prevalence in the respective country. Name uniqueness is measured only by the exact grapheme form (not taking into account transliterational equivalents or phonetic similarities).

** Country similarity is the correlation of the relative frequency of the names shared by two countries (as measured by cosine similarity).