Names of United Arab Emirates AE

The names that most distinguish the United Arab Emirates from the rest of the world are Oliver, Theodore and Amelia; in our record corpus the commonest names held in the United Arab Emirates are Liam and Khan.

Written in Arabic.

Population
10M
Official registers
7
Name forms recorded
25K
BBuilt from 7 official registers, 25,124 name forms in our corpus, 12 cited works.

At least one official register, plus a written account of the naming system.

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Where the names most characteristic of United Arab Emirates are borne outside it — the same spelling, counted in our record corpus. Shares are of all bearers of those names anywhere, United Arab Emirates included.

How names work in United Arab Emirates

2 naming traditions are in use in United Arab Emirates, listed in the order of the country's languages. They are separate systems, not variants of one, and each has its own page.

The most common names in United Arab Emirates

Characteristic of United Arab Emirates

Not the most common names — the most distinctive ones. A name appears here when United Arab Emirates holds a larger share of its bearers than the world does, weighted by how much of the country's whole name distribution it accounts for.

OliverTheodoreAmeliaLiamNoahJamesEmmaArabMohammedZayedمريماوليفيانواهايمااميليازايدAbdullahAishaصوفياولياماوليفرAbdulعايشةFatimaفاطمةSaifايلياIbrahimعبداللهOliviaMaithaAli KhanShaikhaفاطمهAbdullaAmirSultanImranSyriaElijahKhalidNoorRajaAmnaReemFaisalRahulAnilManojSureshObaidIrfanOrdanMohdHamdaNouraAmalSyedUsmanSanjay
Sized by how much of the difference between United Arab Emirates's name distribution and the world's this name accounts for. Hover for its share here against its share worldwide.●

Scripts & spelling

Names in United Arab Emirates are written in Latin (95%) and Arabic (5%), measured over the spellings our corpus records for this country.

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Olivergiven name●
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Theodoregiven name●
The best-attested names in United Arab Emirates, in the spelling our records use there. Where a Latin spelling is also attested it is shown beneath — a spelling from the corpus, not a machine romanisation.

Countries whose names look alike

Measured as the overlap between each country's top 300 given-name forms, weighted by how common each is — the fuzzy-set approach of Lauc (2024), on a truncated inventory.

Registers & sources

Official registers

Cited works

Behind this page's own account — its one-line answer, its explanation of why the rankings differ, and the notes on its registers. Each naming tradition cites its own sources on its page. Not yet checked against onomastic literature.

About this data

Official figures are reproduced from the register named beside them, at the year named beside them, and are never combined across registers. The "across all records" ranking counts records in our own corpus — historical registers, the diaspora, business and place records — and is not a population count. Bearer estimates are omitted where a name accounts for more than a quarter of a country's records, because the estimate is not defensible there. Names listed by reference works and licensed name dictionaries are cited as attesting a name; their figures are not published.

Data snapshot: 2026-09-12.

Questions

Is there one naming system in United Arab Emirates?
No — 2 are described on this page (Arabic, Yemeni and Gulf Tribal), and they are separate systems rather than variants of one.

Cite this page: Mondonomo, “Names of United Arab Emirates”, https://nelma.mondonomo.ai/names/AE (data snapshot 2026-09-12).