Umar

given name · Hindi · Latin script

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

Umar is a given name, most frequently recorded in India, where it is the 57th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Hindi and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: life; Qur'anic/historical Caliph Umar.

rarermore common
  • JOJordan1 in 30◐
  • BDBangladesh1 in 194
  • PKPakistan1 in 202

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

≈444K ●

across 8 countries

#370 ●

of 16M given names

10 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
395 ●

3.7M records

Official registry-verified

1 in 515 ◐

Kazakhstan

Spellings & scripts●

AmarLatin · Hindi●1.5M records
АмирCyrillic · Russian●220K records
অমরBengali · Bangla●4K records
ᲔმირGeorgian · Georgian●809 records
อามัลThai · Thai●149 records
아미르Hangul · Korean●2 records
ԱմիրArmenian · Armenian●1 records
අමරSinhala · Sinhala●0 records
అమరTelugu · Telugu●0 records
ΑμανGreek · Greek●0 records

12 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Amir in US United States, MY Malaysia, GB United Kingdom and 11 more, Amar in IN India, SY Syria, DZ Algeria, Amin in BD Bangladesh, EG Egypt, MA Morocco and Амир in KZ Kazakhstan, RU Russia, KG Kyrgyzstan.

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●

life; Qur'anic/historical Caliph Umar

Sources 1

  • African Muslim Names

Attested across 7 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

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

Where Umar is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
IN India#574,088,6191.6M rec.—2.1KAmar258
BD Bangladesh#801,376,98340K rec.—listedAmin137
TR Türkiye#159562,932608K rec.—2KEmir110
PK Pakistan#11470,07038K rec.—3Ameen123
US United States#943322,278493K rec.1 in 1K322KAmir395
RU Russia#197221,965123K rec.—#75Амир152
JO Jordan—214,7152.7K rec.——Amman60
MY Malaysia#35106,057102K rec.——Amir96
EG Egypt#12377,20039K rec.—listedAmin152
GB United Kingdom#49364,35948K rec.—48Amir162
IR Iran—49,09243K rec.——Amir119
SY Syria#6647,10964K rec.——Amar33

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

Languages●

  • Hindi283K31%
  • English219K24%
  • Swahili76K8%
  • Indonesian74K8%
  • Urdu62K7%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Hindi282,69931%
English218,88124%
Swahili75,8788%
Indonesian73,6928%
Urdu61,6587%

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◐

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

  • English given name410K records spelled Umar30 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Nigeria, India, United States, Kyrgyzstan

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written 'Umar, Umåř, Umår, Úmäř, Ụmar

  • Indonesian given name191K records spelled Umar16 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Nigeria, Indonesia, India, Malaysia

    Languages: Indonesian, Malay

    Also written 'Umar, Umar', Ümar, Umâr, Umár

  • Swahili given name148K records spelled Umar2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Nigeria, India, United States, Pakistan

  • a separate given name108K records spelled Umar5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, Pakistan, United States, Ethiopia

    Also written 'Umar, Umaŕ, Ùmar, Ümar

  • Arabic given name75K records spelled Umar9 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Nigeria, Saudi Arabia, India, United Arab Emirates

    Languages: Arabic, Amharic

    Also written ኡማር, 'Umar, ዑማር, Ümar, U'Mar

  • Spanish given name13K records spelled Umar17 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Spain, Nigeria, United States, India

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Ümar, Úmar, Umåř, Űmąř, Ùmãr

56 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●

Umar is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Arabic, life/long-lived; Umar ibn al-Khattab

    as a nameAfrican Muslim Names

  • In English, Arabic; flourishing, long-lived

    as a nameBaby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…

  • In Arabic, the second Khalifa; longevity

    as a nameAfrican Muslim Names

  • In German, s, OD I Umb-: s, HUNNE, sonst < Unb, z. B. Umbreit "nicht bereitwillig, un- fähig" (s. Seltenreich)

    as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung

  • longevity, second Khalifa

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

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●

02505007501K19201940196019802000835 · 1993

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Umar in naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls), India, 1913–2015
Yearrecords
19131
19171
19186
19192
19209
19213
19224
19239
19248
19254
19268
19279
192813
192911
193025
193116
193226
193321
193435
193538
193629
193746
193858
193963
194056
194161
194290
194384
1944105
194599
1946107
1947115
1948117
1949145
1950158
1951153
1952195
1953187
1954205
1955191
1956193
1957267
1958266
1959317
1960315
1961282
1962344
1963333
1964393
1965437
1966381
1967434
1968424
1969431
1970481
1971422
1972481
1973462
1974443
1975454
1976510
1977412
1978497
1979418
1980443
1981509
1982642
1983578
1984618
1985618
1986536
1987607
1988615
1989678
1990582
1991697
1992760
1993835
1994600
1995599
1996332
1997347
1998275
199934
200848
20093
201038
201120
201215
201323
201486
201544

IN naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) — 92 years between 1913–2015. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

500100015002000Umar ibn Al-Khattāb, b. 586Umar ibn Abd al-Aziz, b. 681Omar Khayyam, b. 1048Sayyid Ajjal Shams al-Din Omar, b. 1211Umar Shaikh Mirza II, b. 1456Omar al-Mukhtar, b. 1858Umar Wirahadikusumah, b. 1924Omar bin Laden, b. 1981Umar Eshmurodov, b. 1992

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 86 sources across 40 countries.

Official registers attesting Umar
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex20203.1K#5,504
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls—1.8K#3,411
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 202020201.3K#20,854
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010724#31,873
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—694#2,037
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—623#3,938
ES SpainINE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—484#2,160
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—431#3,072
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000399#49,471
ES SpainINE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—312#11,709
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—312#11,672
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20)2026243#1,137

Reference works 6

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • 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)

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

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 489 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Umar?
We estimate roughly 444 thousand people bear Umar (counting its spellings and scripts) across 8 countries in our records.
In which country does Umar have the most bearers?
Umar is most frequently recorded in India, where it is most often spelled amar.
How common is Umar compared with other names?
In India, Umar is the 57th most common given name of 4,777,337 given names recorded there.
Is Umar a male or female name?
Umar 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 Umar mean?
Recorded meaning: life; Qur'anic/historical Caliph Umar
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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, “Umar” — the 57th most common given name in India. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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