Oumar
given name · French · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Oumar is a given name, most frequently recorded in Senegal, where it is the 15th most common given name. It appears chiefly in French and French (Côte d’Ivoire), written in the Latin script.
- SNSenegal1 in 165◐
- MLMali1 in 538
- CICôte d’Ivoire1 in 3.6K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈6.5K ●
- Sources
- 228 ●
- 1 in 19K ◐
across 9 countries
44K records
Official registry-verified
France
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 10 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 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SN Senegal | #15 | 4,083 | 1.5K rec. | — | 79 | Oumar | 58 |
| FR France | — | 3,555 | 25K rec. | 1 in 19K | 3.6K | Oumar | 228 |
| ML Mali | #5 | 1,740 | 1.8K rec. | — | 20 | Oumar | 45 |
| ES Spain | — | 1,688△ | 828 rec. | 1 in 30K | 1.7K | Oumar | 53 |
| CI Côte d’Ivoire | #402 | 1,580 | 1.7K rec. | — | 907 | Oumar | 26 |
| US United States | — | 1,131 | 3.9K rec. | 1 in 294K | 1.1K | Oumar | 170 |
| BE Belgium | — | 991 | 1K rec. | — | 5 | Oumar | 36 |
| CM Cameroon | #96 | 990 | 1.8K rec. | — | — | Oumar | 19 |
| IT Italy | — | 423 | 495 rec. | — | 5 | Oumar | 28 |
| TD Chad | #3 | 386 | 799 rec. | — | 3 | Oumar | 27 |
| BF Burkina Faso | #110 | 274 | 293 rec. | — | — | Oumar | 14 |
| MA Morocco | — | 233 | 475 rec. | — | — | Oumar | 28 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- French52K65%
- French (Côte d’Ivoire)7.5K9%
- Spanish6K8%
- English3.5K4%
- Arabic2.2K3%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| French | 51,798 | 65% |
| French (Côte d’Ivoire) | 7,498 | 9% |
| Spanish | 6,050 | 8% |
| English | 3,478 | 4% |
| Arabic | 2,224 | 3% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Over time●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1993 | 5 |
| 1994 | 5 |
| 1996 | 6 |
| 1997 | 10 |
| 1998 | 6 |
| 1999 | 15 |
| 2000 | 13 |
| 2001 | 17 |
| 2002 | 30 |
| 2003 | 28 |
| 2004 | 21 |
| 2005 | 27 |
| 2006 | 36 |
| 2007 | 23 |
| 2008 | 25 |
| 2009 | 26 |
| 2010 | 30 |
| 2011 | 20 |
| 2012 | 31 |
| 2013 | 38 |
| 2014 | 33 |
| 2015 | 21 |
| 2016 | 24 |
| 2017 | 27 |
| 2018 | 38 |
| 2019 | 32 |
| 2020 | 35 |
| 2021 | 22 |
| 2022 | 22 |
| 2023 | 25 |
| 2024 | 32 |
| 2025 | 38 |
US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 32 years between 1993–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- ʿUmar Talb. 1797SNnot in their usual nameWest African political leader, Islamic scholar, and Toucouleur military commander
- Oumar Tatam Lyb. 1963MLMalian politician
- Frédéric Kanoutéb. 1977FRnot in their usual nameMalian-French footballer (born 1977)
- Oumar Tchomogob. 1978BJBeninese and French footballer
- Oumar Kalabaneb. 1981GNGuinean footballer
- Oumar Sissokob. 1987FRMalian footballer
- Alpha Wannb. 1989FRnot in their usual nameFrench rapper
- Oumar Niasseb. 1990SNSenegalese footballer
- Cheick Doucouréb. 2000MLnot in their usual nameMalian association football player
- Oumar Soletb. 2000FRFrench, Ivorian and Central African association 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 55 sources across 36 countries.
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name 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 · 165 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Oumar?
- We estimate roughly 6.5 thousand people bear Oumar (counting its spellings and scripts) across 9 countries in our records.
- In which country does Oumar have the most bearers?
- Oumar is most frequently recorded in Senegal, where it is most often spelled oumar.
- How common is Oumar compared with other names?
- In Senegal, Oumar is the 15th most common given name of 3,508 given names recorded there.
- Is Oumar a male or female name?
- Oumar 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.
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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, “Oumar” — the 15th most common given name in Senegal. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.