Omid
given name · Persian · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Omid is a given name, most frequently recorded in Iran. In Afghanistan it is the 34th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Persian and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Omid är ett persiskt och kurdiskt namn som betyder ’hopp’.
- AFAfghanistan1 in 1K◐
- IRIran1 in 21K
- DEGermany1 in 43K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈3.5K ●
- 4 ●
- Sources
- 227 ●
- 1 in 10K ◐
across 9 countries
recorded for this name
35K records
Official registry-verified
Sweden
Spellings & scripts●
Locally spelled Омид in RU Russia, KZ Kazakhstan and Омід in UA Ukraine.
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●
Omid är ett persiskt och kurdiskt namn som betyder ’hopp’.
Sources 1
- Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IR Iran | — | 10,196 | 8.1K rec. | — | — | Omid | 76 |
| DE Germany | — | 2,836 | 2.6K rec. | — | 1 | Omid | 110 |
| AF Afghanistan | #34 | 2,095 | 2.3K rec. | — | 2 | Omid | 26 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 1,875 | 1K rec. | — | — | Omid | 75 |
| US United States | — | 1,778 | 13K rec. | 1 in 187K | 1.8K | Omid | 227 |
| TR Türkiye | — | 1,729 | 1.7K rec. | — | — | Omid | 34 |
| FR France | — | 1,526 | 1.2K rec. | — | — | Omid | 133 |
| CA Canada | — | 1,314 | 940 rec. | — | 5 | Omid | 69 |
| AU Australia | — | 1,287 | 1.1K rec. | — | 3 | Omid | 80 |
| SE Sweden | — | 991 | 630 rec. | 1 in 10K | 991 | Omid | 42 |
| AT Austria | — | 586 | 266 rec. | — | 62 | Omid | 51 |
| NO Norway | — | 241 | 151 rec. | 1 in 23K | 940 | Omid | 27 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Persian14K30%
- English11K23%
- Arabic4.4K9%
- German3.7K8%
- French1.8K4%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Persian | 14,164 | 30% |
| English | 10,871 | 23% |
| Arabic | 4,401 | 9% |
| German | 3,653 | 8% |
| French | 1,772 | 4% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
Omid 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 English, A transliteration of the Persian male given name امید (omid).
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●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1973 | 6 |
| 1976 | 5 |
| 1978 | 11 |
| 1979 | 11 |
| 1980 | 15 |
| 1981 | 18 |
| 1982 | 21 |
| 1983 | 20 |
| 1984 | 16 |
| 1985 | 12 |
| 1986 | 14 |
| 1987 | 30 |
| 1988 | 28 |
| 1989 | 21 |
| 1990 | 21 |
| 1991 | 25 |
| 1992 | 21 |
| 1993 | 15 |
| 1994 | 15 |
| 1995 | 25 |
| 1996 | 17 |
| 1997 | 28 |
| 1998 | 23 |
| 1999 | 23 |
| 2000 | 17 |
| 2001 | 13 |
| 2002 | 18 |
| 2003 | 11 |
| 2004 | 18 |
| 2005 | 17 |
| 2006 | 14 |
| 2007 | 14 |
| 2008 | 11 |
| 2009 | 10 |
| 2010 | 11 |
| 2011 | 9 |
| 2012 | 6 |
| 2013 | 12 |
| 2014 | 12 |
| 2015 | 13 |
| 2016 | 17 |
| 2017 | 20 |
| 2018 | 18 |
| 2019 | 9 |
| 2020 | 16 |
| 2021 | 14 |
| 2022 | 16 |
| 2023 | 14 |
| 2024 | 9 |
| 2025 | 23 |
US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 50 years between 1973–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Omid Kordestanib. 1963USIranian-American businessman
- Omid Djalilib. 1965GBIranian-British stand-up comedian
- Omid Nooshinb. 1974GBBritish film director (1974-2018)
- Omid Nouripourb. 1975DEIranian-German politician
- Omid Abtahib. 1979USAmerican actor
- Omid Norouzib. 1986IRIrani wrestler
- Omid Ebrahimib. 1987IRfootballer
- Omid Alishahb. 1992IRIranian association football player
- Omid Popalzayb. 1996AFAfghan association football player
- Omid Noorafkanb. 1997IRIranian football player
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 51 sources across 26 countries.
Reference works 5
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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 2026-09-12 data build · 357 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Omid?
- We estimate roughly 3.5 thousand people bear Omid (counting its spellings and scripts) across 9 countries in our records.
- In which country does Omid have the most bearers?
- Omid is most frequently recorded in Iran, where it is most often spelled omid.
- How common is Omid compared with other names?
- In Afghanistan, Omid is the 34th most common given name of 22,039 given names recorded there.
- Is Omid a male or female name?
- Omid 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 Omid mean?
- Recorded meaning: Omid är ett persiskt och kurdiskt namn som betyder ’hopp’.
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About this data
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, “Omid” — the 34th most common given name in Afghanistan. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.