Omar

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Male Name

Usage

Swedish
Finnish
Danish
Norwegian

Origin and Meaning

1) New combination of names starting with O- and the name element MAR ^[1]

2) Arabic عمر ('umr) = 'life, lifetime' or 'pilgrim' ^{[2] [1]}

3) Hebrew אוֹמָר ('omar) = 'speaker'

Related Names

Omar	♂
Ómar	♂
Omer	♂
Ómi	♂

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Sweden: 1814 ^[1]

Statistics

Name count per country
Country	Commonness	Female ♀		Male ♂
		as main name#	also aux. name&	as main name#	also aux. name&
Sweden[3]		2	768	2251	3726
Denmark[4]		0	n.a.	920	n.a
Norway[5]		0	0	476	940
Finland[6]		n.a.	176	n.a	766
#: count of main first name only
&: count of both main and additional first names
Name counts are approximate as statistics normally is not published for names given to less than 3 or 5 persons per country.

 

Recent statistics trend^[3][4][5][6]:

Norwegian historic statistics trend^[5]:

Sources: ^{[3] [4] [5] [6]}

References

1. ↑ Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
2. ↑ Wilfried Seibicke: Historisches Deutsches Vornamenbuch (Band 1-4)
3. ↑ Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
4. ↑ Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
5. ↑ Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
6. ↑ Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi