Omari

surname · Swahili · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Omari is a surname, most frequently recorded in Argentina, where it is the 74th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Swahili and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: the second Khalifa.

rarermore common
  • TRTürkiye1 in 194◐
  • EGEgypt1 in 203
  • SYSyria1 in 208

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈636K ●

across 8 countries

#248 ●

of 16M given names

9 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
443 ●

7.4M records

Official registry-verified

1 in 194 ◐

Türkiye

Spellings & scripts●

OmarLatin · Spanish●4.1M records
עומרHebrew · Hebrew●104K records
УмарCyrillic · Russian●94K records
ᲝმარGeorgian · Georgian●9.6K records
ኦመርEthiopic · Amharic●396 records
โอมาThai · Thai●92 records
오마Hangul · Korean●3 records
ΟμάρGreek · Greek●3 records
ՕմարArmenian · Armenian●3 records

4 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Omar in AR Argentina, MX Mexico, US United States and 17 more, Ömer in TR Türkiye, DE Germany, Умар in RU Russia, KG Kyrgyzstan and Omer in FR France, IN India.

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●

the second Khalifa

Sources 1

  • African Muslim Names

Attested across 6 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Omari is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
AR Argentina#742,150,3561.4M rec.—930Omar154
MX Mexico#91657,971467K rec.—1.3KOmar234
TR Türkiye#16422,8033.4M rec.1 in 194423KÖmer145
VE Venezuela#71312,265153K rec.——Omar116
PE Peru#150214,743169K rec.——Omar119
EG Egypt#9193,53387K rec.—listedOmar198
IL Israel#84162,840206K rec.—15Kעומר109
SY Syria#12159,787208K rec.——Omar74
RU Russia#257137,51797K rec.—#119Умар127
US United States#694126,481427K rec.1 in 2.6K126KOmar443
CL Chile#156113,1087.3K rec.—1Omar124
CO Colombia#12486,95235K rec.——Omar175

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • Swahili64K58%
  • English9.7K9%
  • French9K8%
  • Arabic7.9K7%
  • Spanish3.5K3%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Swahili64,31458%
English9,6999%
French8,9908%
Arabic7,8697%
Spanish3,5463%

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◐

Omari is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English surname36K records spelled Omari18 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Tanzania, United States, Belgium, Germany

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written O'Mari, Ômari, Omarì, Õmãří, Ömari

  • French surname11K records spelled Omari5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Spain, Belgium, Tanzania

    Languages: French, Catalan

    Also written Ômari, Omarî, Õmari

  • Spanish surname6.7K records spelled Omari13 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Spain, United States, Tanzania, Brazil

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written O'Mari, Omarï, Õmari, Ōmari, Ômârî

  • a separate surname1.5K records spelled Omari2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Morocco, United States, India, Kenya

    Also written Ômari

  • Russian given name875 records spelled Omari9 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Russia, Ukraine, Tanzania, Kazakhstan

    Languages: Russian, Ukrainian, Belarusian

    Also written Омари, Омарі, Омарй

  • Persian surname847 records spelled Omari5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Morocco, Tanzania, Afghanistan, United States

    Also written Òmàrì, Omàri, Omârï

58 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●

Omari is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • long life

    as a nameWhats in a name = Unaitwaje a Swahili book of names

  • In Finnish, own goal

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

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●

020040060080019801990200020102020618 · 2018

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Omari in SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present), United States, 1971–2025
Yearrecords
19717
197213
197336
197447
197549
197650
197774
197875
197960
198091
198176
198267
198350
198456
198555
198663
198757
198867
198964
199093
199193
199286
199384
1994108
199597
1996107
1997132
1998172
1999155
2000166
2001166
2002256
2003332
2004399
2005322
2006302
2007376
2008479
2009428
2010368
2011364
2012334
2013318
2014341
2015567
2016553
2017570
2018618
2019612
2020585
2021605
2022555
2023496
2024465
2025397

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 55 years between 1971–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

1940196019802000Najibullah Khwaja Omari, b. 1955Pierpaolo Omari, b. 1956Constant Omari, b. 1958Stormzy, b. 1993Warmed Omari, b. 2000

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●

Attested in 64 sources across 37 countries.

Official registers attesting Omari
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex20208.2K#2,756
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 202020201.3K#20,429
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010595#37,442
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)2025397—
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000375#52,077
ES SpainINE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—371#10,171
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—371#10,151
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—346#2,592
BE BelgiumStatbel — Noms de famille (family names)—320#5,266
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020305#2,756
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—168#9,419
BE BelgiumFamilienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register)2008128#12,638

Reference works 4

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
  • jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 229 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Omari?
We estimate roughly 636 thousand people bear Omari (counting its spellings and scripts) across 8 countries in our records.
In which country does Omari have the most bearers?
Omari is most frequently recorded in Argentina, where it is most often spelled omar.
Where is Omari most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Omari is densest in Türkiye — about 1 in 194 people — even though Argentina holds more of our records for it.
How common is Omari compared with other names?
In Argentina, Omari is the 74th most common given name of 517,176 given names recorded there.
What does the name Omari mean?
Recorded meaning: the second Khalifa
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

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, “Omari” — the 74th most common given name in Argentina. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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