Usman

given name · Hindi · Latin script

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

Usman is a given name, most frequently recorded in Nigeria, where it is the 83rd most common given name. It appears chiefly in Hindi and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: عثمان; Tanzanian spellings include Othmani and Othuman.

rarermore common
  • NGNigeria1 in 1.1K◐
  • NONorway1 in 21K
  • SESweden1 in 25K

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

≈4.6K ●

across 10 countries

Sources
58 ●

127K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 21K ◐

Norway

Meaning & origin●

عثمان; Tanzanian spellings include Othmani and Othuman.

Sources 1

  • African Muslim Names

Attested across 8 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

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

Where Usman is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
NG Nigeria#8367,401124K rec.——Usman58
US United States—2,651△166 rec.1 in 125K2.7KUsman31
ES Spain—901△3 rec.1 in 56K901—2
IN India—580780 rec.—1.2KUsman21
PK Pakistan—46254 rec.——Usman35
SE Sweden—402△2 rec.1 in 25K402—2
NO Norway—265△1 rec.1 in 21K930—2
DK Denmark—148—1 in 40K162——
PL Poland—136—1 in 281K136——
PH Philippines—1251.7K rec.——Usman16
GB United Kingdom—5959 rec.—3Usman24
ZA South Africa—5687 rec.——Usman4

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

Languages●

  • Hindi249K25%
  • English245K24%
  • Urdu122K12%
  • Indonesian98K10%
  • 98K10%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Hindi249,20825%
English245,40724%
Urdu122,32112%
Indonesian98,28210%
98,12510%

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◐

Usman is also recorded as 7 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Hindi given name614K records spelled Usman38 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, Pakistan, Nigeria, United States

    Languages: Hindi, Urdu, Assamese

    Also written উসমান, Usmaan, উস্মান, Ušmäñ, Üsman

  • English given name467K records spelled Usman166 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Nigeria, Bangladesh, United States, India

    Languages: English, German, Danish

    Also written Osman, Oesman, Oşman, O'Sman, Uşman

  • Indonesian given name232K records spelled Usman8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Nigeria, India, Indonesia, Pakistan

    Languages: Indonesian, Malay

    Also written Usman', Uşman, Üsman, Usmân, Usmān

  • a separate given name150K records spelled Usman4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, Pakistan, United States, Ethiopia

    Also written Usmān̲, Usmān, Usman⃰

  • Arabic given name67K records spelled Usman3 spellings in the group

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

    Languages: Arabic, Amharic

    Also written Uşman

  • Spanish given name22K records spelled Usman27 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Spain, Philippines, Nigeria, United States

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Úsmáñ, Usmán, Üśmäń, Uşman, Usmân

  • Turkish given name11K records spelled Usman20 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Nigeria, Türkiye, Turkmenistan, India

    Languages: Turkish, Azerbaijani, Turkmen

    Also written Uşman, Üsman, Üsmãn, Ûśmáń, Ůṥmąñ

59 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●

Usman is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Filipino, a Muslim Filipino surname from Arabic

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Turkish, Akıllı, zeki kimse.

    as a wordTDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)

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●

05001K1.5K2K1900192019401960198020002K · 1993

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Usman in naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls), India, 1899–2016
Yearrecords
18993
19141
19152
19161
19175
191810
19197
19208
19218
192218
192314
192416
192512
192617
192727
192837
192938
193026
193151
193281
193356
1934109
1935104
193687
1937108
1938123
1939150
1940160
1941154
1942240
1943185
1944281
1945246
1946277
1947346
1948321
1949381
1950361
1951413
1952508
1953379
1954587
1955517
1956535
1957592
1958664
1959832
1960618
1961664
1962933
1963723
1964955
1965816
1966955
1967946
1968919
19691,032
1970995
1971952
19721,109
19731,022
1974956
1975976
19761,194
1977921
19781,053
1979955
19801,088
19811,033
19821,452
19831,450
19841,557
19851,358
19861,275
19871,415
19881,454
19891,492
19901,522
19911,683
19921,781
19931,969
19941,469
19951,462
1996530
1997593
1998433
19997
200871
20097
201032
201165
201227
201337
2014122
201554
20161

IN naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) — 96 years between 1899–2016. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

1900195020002050Usman Yusupov, b. 1900Fakih Usman, b. 1904Usman Awang, b. 1929Usman Ibrahim, b. 1939Usman Khan, b. 1947Usman Kakar, b. 1961Usman Dar, b. 1974Usman Khawaja, b. 1986Usman Garuba, b. 2002

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 81 sources across 37 countries.

Official registers attesting Usman
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex20202.7K#6,110
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 202020202.5K#12,043
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls—1.2K#4,880
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 201020101K#24,446
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—930#1,724
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—901#3,063
ES SpainINE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—681#1,681
ES SpainINE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—675#6,267
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—675#6,259
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000586#36,129
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—572#2,296
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—402#3,227

Reference works 7

  • 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
  • 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 · 616 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Usman?
We estimate roughly 4.6 thousand people bear Usman (counting its spellings and scripts) across 10 countries in our records.
In which country does Usman have the most bearers?
Usman is most frequently recorded in Nigeria, where it is most often spelled usman.
How common is Usman compared with other names?
In Nigeria, Usman is the 83rd most common given name of 146,224 given names recorded there.
Is Usman a male or female name?
Usman 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 Usman mean?
Recorded meaning: عثمان; Tanzanian spellings include Othmani and Othuman.
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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, “Usman” — the 83rd most common given name in Nigeria. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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