as a Last Name
- 4,135
- people in the U.S. have this name Get contact details for people named Omar
Meaning & Origins
Muslim (found almost exclusively among Sunni Muslims): from an Arabic personal name of uncertain etymology. It is thought to be related to Arabic ῾āmir, which means ‘prosperous’, ‘full of life’, ‘large’, ‘substantial’. The root word ῾umr means ‘life’. ῾Umar bin al-Khaṭṭb was the second of the ‘rightly guided’ khalifs (ruled 634–44). He was known by the title al-Fārūq ‘the distinguisher’, i.e. one who distinguishes between truth and falsehood. He was one of the Companions of the Prophet Muhammad. The Persian poet ῾Umar al-Khayyām (1048–1125), also known in English as Omar Khayyam, is the author of the classic poem, the Rubaiyyat.
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- Thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 4,135
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- Minnesota
- has the most people named Omar per capita
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