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omar Name Meaning and History

  1. Muslim (found almost exclusively among Sunni Muslims): from an Arabic personal name of uncertain etymology. It is thought to be related to Arabic ?amir, which means ‘prosperous’, ‘full of life’, ‘large’, ‘substantial’. The root word ?umr means ‘life’. ?Umar bin al-Kha?t?tab was the second of the ‘rightly guided’ khalifs (ruled 634–44). He was known by the title al-Faruq ‘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-Khayyam (1048–1125), also known in English as Omar Khayyam, is the author of the classic poem, the Rubaiyyat.
  2. Catalan: topographic name for someone who lived by a group of elm trees, from the collective form of om ‘elm’.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of omar Families in the US in 1920
Number of omar families
 6-9
 3-5		 1-2
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