Othman
surname · Malay · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Othman is a surname, with more bearers in Türkiye than in any other country, where it is the 12th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Malay and Arabic, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Archaic form of Ottoman.
- TRTürkiye1 in 264◐
- MYMalaysia1 in 314
- CYCyprus1 in 358
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈338K ●
- #550 ●
- 5 ●
- Sources
- 281 ●
- 1 in 264 ◐
across 8 countries
of 16M given names
recorded for this name
4.6M records
Official registry-verified
Türkiye
Spellings & scripts●
3 other spellings are counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Osama in EG Egypt, SY Syria, US United States and 11 more, Osman in TR Türkiye, CY Cyprus, NL Netherlands and 2 more, Usama in PK Pakistan, NG Nigeria and Осман in KZ Kazakhstan, RU Russia.
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●
Archaic form of Ottoman.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 9 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 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TR Türkiye | #12 | 310,387 | 4M rec. | 1 in 264 | 310K | Osman | 134 |
| MY Malaysia | — | 175,479 | 81K rec. | — | 1.7K | Othman | 112 |
| EG Egypt | #53 | 75,743 | 71K rec. | — | listed | Osama | 175 |
| SY Syria | #43 | 72,992 | 118K rec. | — | — | Osama | 60 |
| TH Thailand | #795 | 26,756 | 19K rec. | — | #793,424 | อุสมาน | 66 |
| PK Pakistan | #227 | 24,886 | 8.6K rec. | — | listed | Usama | 106 |
| IN India | — | 23,468 | 9.1K rec. | — | 1.6K | Osama | 86 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | #65 | 17,329 | 10K rec. | — | listed | Osama | 168 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 11,308 | 7.2K rec. | — | 3 | Osama | 99 |
| US United States | — | 7,164 | 73K rec. | 1 in 46K | 13K | Osama | 281 |
| RU Russia | — | 6,791 | 2.3K rec. | — | #238 | Осман | 66 |
| CY Cyprus | #42 | 6,359 | 7.9K rec. | — | — | Osman | 30 |
Roughly 310K people in Türkiye bear this name (about 1 in 264). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Malay120K43%
- Arabic55K20%
- English34K12%
- Indonesian15K6%
- French6K2%
Show as table
| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Malay | 119,737 | 43% |
| Arabic | 54,602 | 20% |
| English | 34,064 | 12% |
| Indonesian | 15,470 | 6% |
| French | 5,968 | 2% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Over time●
Show as table
| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1977 | 5 |
| 1982 | 5 |
| 1988 | 5 |
| 1991 | 6 |
| 1992 | 8 |
| 1994 | 5 |
| 1995 | 7 |
| 1996 | 6 |
| 1997 | 15 |
| 1998 | 5 |
| 1999 | 10 |
| 2000 | 10 |
| 2001 | 12 |
| 2002 | 6 |
| 2003 | 13 |
| 2004 | 13 |
| 2005 | 9 |
| 2006 | 10 |
| 2007 | 8 |
| 2008 | 7 |
| 2009 | 10 |
| 2010 | 10 |
| 2011 | 15 |
| 2012 | 11 |
| 2013 | 22 |
| 2014 | 21 |
| 2015 | 12 |
| 2016 | 19 |
| 2017 | 15 |
| 2018 | 16 |
| 2019 | 25 |
| 2020 | 24 |
| 2021 | 31 |
| 2022 | 46 |
| 2023 | 33 |
| 2024 | 27 |
| 2025 | 34 |
US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 37 years between 1977–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Mohamed Othmanb. 1855EGEgyptian singer (1855–1900)
- Abdul Hamid Othmanb. 1939politician (1939-2011)
- Abdullah Othmanb. 1945MYMalaysian association football player (1945-2015)
- Mazlan Othmanb. 1951MYMalaysian physicist
- Dafallah al-Haj Alib. 1951not in their usual nameSudanese politician
- Salah Othmanb. 1963EGEgyptian writer
- Jamal Othmanb. 1986CHfigure skater
- Abdullah Othmanb. 1990SASaudi football player
- Jibril Othmanb. 2004TNTunisian association football player
- Alaa Othmanresearcher
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 60 sources across 30 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 2.3K | #12,661 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024) | 2024 | 2K | #786 |
| MY Malaysia | data.gov.my — Baby Name Popularity Dashboard (HTML-embedded JSON) | — | 1.7K | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.6K | #17,673 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 1.2K | #866 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 1K | #2,775 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 996 | #23,721 |
| ES Spain | INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 833 | #1,439 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 704 | #16,132 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 594 | #2,191 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 428 | #1,026 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 373 | #3,529 |
Reference works 6
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- 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 · 181 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Othman?
- We estimate roughly 338 thousand people bear Othman (counting its spellings and scripts) across 8 countries in our records.
- In which country does Othman have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 310 thousand people bear Othman in Türkiye, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled osman.
- Where is Othman most common?
- Othman is densest in Türkiye, where the national register counts about 1 in 264 people carrying it.
- How common is Othman compared with other names?
- In Türkiye, Othman is the 12th most common given name of 294,597 given names recorded there.
- What does the name Othman mean?
- Recorded meaning: Archaic form of Ottoman.
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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.
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Cite this page Mondonomo, “Othman” — the 12th most common given name in Türkiye. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.