Ammar

Spellings & scripts●

Locally spelled Аммар in RU Russia, UA Ukraine and อัมมร in TH Thailand.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.

Languages●

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Ammar is also recorded as 8 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• French given name37K records spelled Ammar44 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in France, Spain, Syria, Belgium

  Languages: French, Catalan

  Also written Ammàr, Àmmár, Ãmmar, Ãmmář, Âmmâř

• Malay given name23K records spelled Ammar14 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Malaysia, Indonesia, Türkiye, United States

  Languages: Malay, Indonesian

  Also written 'Ammar, Ammar', Ammâř, Ãmmår, Àmmar

• Hindi given name23K records spelled Ammar13 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in India, Pakistan, United States, Türkiye

  Languages: Hindi, Urdu

  Also written Ãmmãr, Ämmar, Ämmâŕ, ́ammar, Ămmăr

• Turkish given name23K records spelled Ammar17 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Türkiye, Syria, Iraq, Kazakhstan

  Languages: Turkish, Azerbaijani, Uzbek

  Also written Аммар, Ammàr, Àmmàr, Àmmāŗ, Ámmãr

• Spanish given name9.7K records spelled Ammar55 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Spain, Argentina, Brazil

  Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

  Also written Ämmär, Ammâr, Àmmàr, Àmmar, Ammàr

• a separate given name4.0K records spelled Ammar3 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in India, United States, Iraq, Pakistan

  Also written Âmmar, Ammâr

• Norwegian Bokmål given name2.5K records spelled Ammar18 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Norway, Denmark, United States, Sweden

  Languages: Norwegian Bokmål, Danish, Swedish

  Also written Àmmar, Âmmâr, Âmmãr, Åmmär, Åmmäř

• Finnish given name1.8K records spelled Ammar5 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Finland, Türkiye, Syria, Nigeria

  Languages: Finnish, Estonian

  Also written Ammär, Ämmâr, Ãmmãr

51 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●

Ammar is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

• In Swedish, Ammar (Amar) är ett arabiskt namn som betyder ’man med lång livslängd’. Se även → Omar och → Amer, namn med samma ursprung.

  as a name·Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon

• In Arabic, virtuous, pious, devout, religious, tolerant

  as a name·A Dictionary of Muslim Names

• In Arabic, virtuous, pious, devout, religious. . See

  as a name·A Dictionary of Muslim Names

• ‫مار‬ punctual; tolerant;

  as a name·Muslim baby names (our 2,000 meaningful and beautiful names for boys and girls) English-Urdu with Roman

• Constructor

  as a name·25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado

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.

Over time●

IN naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) — 57 years between 1925–2015. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

• Ammar ibn Yasirb. 570SACompanion of the Islamic prophet Muhammad (died 657)
• Ammar Farhatb. 1911TNTunisian painter (1911-1987)
• Ammar Souayahb. 1957TNTunisian association football player
• Ammar Abdulhamidb. 1966SYSyrian author
• Ammar al-Hakimb. 1971IQIraqi religious figure and politician
• Ammar Jemalb. 1987TNTunisian association football player
• Ammar Malikb. 1987USsongwriter
• Ammar Hamdyb. 1999EGEgyptian association football player
• Ammar Nemoactor
• Ammar AzizPKPakistani documentary filmmaker

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●

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 605 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Ammar?

We estimate roughly 8.1 thousand people bear Ammar (counting its spellings and scripts) across 9 countries in our records.

In which country does Ammar have the most bearers?

Ammar is most frequently recorded in Algeria, where it is most often spelled ammar.

How common is Ammar compared with other names?

In Algeria, Ammar is the 10th most common given name of 30,102 given names recorded there.

Is Ammar a male or female name?

Ammar is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.

What does the name Ammar mean?

Recorded meaning: agricultor; peasant