Nicknames for Omar
32 ideas for Omar — the short forms people actually use, plus cute, funny and gamer versions. Copy any of them in one click.
- Omi the standard affectionate clip
- Om the tightest clip
- Omo the -o affectionate ending, Egyptian
- Umar the closer transliteration of the Arabic
- Ömer the Turkish form
- Ömercik the Turkish -cik affectionate ending
- Umer the Urdu spelling
- Umaru the Hausa form
- Omary the Swahili form
- Omoura the Levantine -oura affectionate ending
- Omarov the Central Asian surname form, used as a tag
- Omie the anglicised spelling used abroad
- Omz the texting spelling
- O initial only, in group chats
- Big O the team-sport version
- Om-Om doubled, family and childhood use
- Abu Omar the kunya pattern, father of Omar
- Omar-bhai bhai, used in South Asian families
- Flourishing what the Arabic root carries
- Long-Lived the other sense of the root
- Khayyam the Persian poet, said with respect
- Sharif the actor joke, made once
- Omi-Bear the affectionate compound used abroad
- Omars the friend version used abroad
- Omar-beta beta, used in South Asian families
- Ömer The Turkish form of Omar.
- Oma Omar, cut where people naturally stop saying it.
- Ornate Omar Shares the "O" sound with Omar.
- Obsidian Omar Shares the "O" sound with Omar.
- Omar Star "Star" rhymes with Omar.
- Omar-Bear A rhyming pair on "-ar".
- Omar Lunar "Lunar" rhymes with Omar.
About the name Omar.
Omar transliterates the Arabic ʿUmar, built on a root meaning to live long or to flourish, so the name reads as long-lived or thriving. Its first bearer of consequence is Umar ibn al-Khattab, the second caliph and an administrator formidable enough that Sunni families have named sons after him for fourteen centuries; the same association makes it rare in Shia households. A separate strand runs through Persian, where Omar Khayyam's quatrains gave the name a nineteenth-century vogue among English readers who had no idea what it meant. In American records it has been the most consistently popular Arabic male name for decades, comfortably ahead of any single spelling of Muhammad.
Two open syllables and no awkward sounds, which is why it travels so easily; an English speaker gets it right first time. It reads warm and faintly literary in the West, thanks to Khayyam and to Omar Sharif. Omi is the household short form and takes the formality out of it.
Most popular around 2000. Based on US birth records.
- Origin
- Arabic
- Meaning
- long-lived, flourishing
- Syllables
- O·mar
- Used as
- a boys’ name
Omar around the world.
These are the real forms Omar takes in other languages, which often make excellent nicknames in their own right.
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Umar
Arabic
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Ömer
Turkish
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Umer
Urdu
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Umaru
Hausa
Famous people called Omar.
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Omar Sharif
Egyptian star of Lawrence of Arabia and Doctor Zhivago
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Omar Khayyam
Persian poet, astronomer and mathematician
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Omar Epps
American actor
Questions about the name Omar
What does Omar mean? +
Long-lived or flourishing, from a root that also produces Arabic words for building, cultivating and populating. The underlying idea is of something well-established and enduring rather than of age by itself.
Is Omar the same name as Umar? +
Yes, differently transliterated. Umar follows academic convention and reflects the Arabic vowel more precisely; Omar is the spelling that took hold in English and Spanish. Turkish produced Ömer, which is the same name once more.
Is Omar an Arabic or a Hebrew name? +
Both, unrelatedly. A grandson of Esau is called Omar in Genesis, and Israeli parents use the name today, generally reading it as sheaf or eloquent. The Arabic name has a different root, and the overlap is a coincidence of spelling.
What nicknames go with it? +
Omi is the most common affectionate form across Arabic-speaking families. O works among English-speaking friends and Om appears in writing. The name is short enough that shortening it further is an act of affection rather than convenience.