Oumarou
given name · French · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Oumarou is a given name, most frequently recorded in Cameroon, where it is the 30th most common given name. It appears chiefly in French and Spanish, written in the Latin script.
- CMCameroon1 in 855◐
- FRFrance1 in 276K
- NENiger1 in 410
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈269 ●
- 2 ●
- Sources
- 130 ●
- 1 in 417K ◐
across 3 countries
recorded for this name
10K records
Official registry-verified
Spain
Spellings & scripts●
Locally spelled Умару in RU Russia, 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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 11 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 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CM Cameroon | #30 | 2,279 | 4.5K rec. | — | 1 | Oumarou | 36 |
| FR France | — | 1,916 | 2.2K rec. | — | — | Oumarou | 130 |
| BF Burkina Faso | #52 | 441 | 482 rec. | — | — | Oumarou | 21 |
| NE Niger | #4 | 178 | 307 rec. | — | 2 | Oumarou | 30 |
| CI Côte d’Ivoire | — | 157 | 176 rec. | — | 233 | Oumarou | 13 |
| US United States | — | 148 | 1.1K rec. | 1 in 2.2M | 148 | Oumarou | 57 |
| ES Spain | — | 120△ | 34 rec. | 1 in 417K | 120 | — | 13 |
| LY Libya | #896 | 101 | 239 rec. | — | — | Oumarou | 3 |
| BE Belgium | — | 87 | 194 rec. | — | 6 | Oumarou | 20 |
| ML Mali | #99 | 82 | 88 rec. | — | 1 | Oumarou | 15 |
| NG Nigeria | — | 74 | 143 rec. | — | listed | Oumarou | 5 |
| TG Togo | #397 | 45 | 76 rec. | — | — | Oumarou | 8 |
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Languages●
- French5.1K65%
- Spanish5157%
- English3444%
- Russian2663%
- French (Côte d’Ivoire)2203%
Show as table
| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| French | 5,065 | 65% |
| Spanish | 515 | 7% |
| English | 344 | 4% |
| Russian | 266 | 3% |
| French (Côte d’Ivoire) | 220 | 3% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Notable people with this name●
- Oumarou Kanazoéb. 1927BFBurkinabé entrepreneur (1927-2011)
- Oumarou Almab. 1951NENigerien politician
- Oumarou Hamanib. 1972NENigerien researcher
- Oumarou Mazadoub. 1975CMCameroonian politician
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 18 sources across 14 countries.
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 · 24 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Oumarou?
- We estimate roughly 269 people bear Oumarou (counting its spellings and scripts) across 3 countries in our records.
- In which country does Oumarou have the most bearers?
- Oumarou is most frequently recorded in Cameroon, where it is most often spelled oumarou.
- How common is Oumarou compared with other names?
- In Cameroon, Oumarou is the 30th most common given name of 9,502 given names recorded there.
- Is Oumarou a male or female name?
- Oumarou 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.
Query this name via API
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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, “Oumarou” — the 30th most common given name in Cameroon. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.