Omar

Where Omar comes from

From Arabic عُمَر (ʕumar). Doublet of Umar.
— Wiktionary's entry for Omar
  • Arabic
  • 2 syllables
Along the way
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #482 among boys — 14 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1932
    Omar Sharif born
    Egyptian actor
  3. 1944
    Omar al-Bashir born
    President of Sudan from 1989 to 2019
  4. 2007
    Peak, #131
    3,216 babies named Omar — more than any year before or since.
  5. 2018
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #241.
In the dictionary
  • A male given name from Arabic.
Namesakes
  • Omar al-Bashir · President of Sudan from 1989 to 2019, born 1944
  • Omar Sharif · Egyptian actor, 1932–2015
  • Omar Bongo · Gabonese politician, 1935–2009
  • Omar Bradley · United States Army general, 1893–1981
  • Omar al-Mukhtar · Leader of the Senussi resistance against the Italian fascist occupation, 1858–1931

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.