Omar

11,435 people in the United States were counted with the surname Omar in the 2020 census, making it the 3,062nd most common in the country. That is about one person in 26,100.

By the numbers

People: 11,435
Rank: 3,062nd
How common: 1 in 26,100
Per 100,000: 3.8

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Omar described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

Black, not Hispanic 54.4%
White, not Hispanic 28.3%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 8.5%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.9%
Hispanic or Latino 3.7%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.3%

Notable people called Omar

Mohammed Omar (1960–2013)Afghan cleric who founded the Taliban
Ilhan Omar (born 1982)American politician
Don Omar (born 1978)Puerto Rican rapper and actor
Ayesha Omar (born 1981)Pakistani actor, singer and model
Yahia Omar (born 1997)Egyptian handball player
Daher el-Omar (1689–1775)Ottoman Pasha (1689/90–1775)
Abdullah Omar (born 1987)Bahraini footballer
Nelly Omar (1911–2013)Argentine actress and singer

People named Omar with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Omar

Also a first name

Omar has been given to 106,894 American babies as a first name since 1880, peaking in 2007. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.