Omar in Arabic: How to Write عمر, and What It Means

Omar in Arabic is عمر, pronounced ʿUmar. Omar is an Arabic name, so it has a fixed Arabic spelling. It has three letters: ʿayn, mīm and rāʾ. With its vowel marks it is عُمَر. The name means long life.

Copy the spelling you need from the table. The cells hold the plain letters of عمر with no hidden direction marks, and the Listen button reads ʿUmar in your device's Arabic voice, if it has one.

Omar in Arabic calligraphy: عمر in three styles

Three renders of عمر, in Amiri, Reem Kufi and Noto Nastaliq Urdu, drawn straight from the font files.

How عمر is spelled, letter by letter

عمر has three letters, read from right to left, starting with the letter ع, ʿayn. Every letter of عمر joins the one after it, so the name is one unbroken shape. Arabic writes only long vowels as letters. The two short vowels are marks that everyday spelling leaves out; عُمَر shows them.

What does Omar mean?

Omar means long life, from the Arabic root ع م ر. That is the meaning our Arabic name generator gives it, and the list of Arabic boy names with their meanings repeats it with its sources.

Behind the Name calls Omar a transcription of عمر, ʿUmar, related to ʿumr, life. ʿUmar, a companion of the Prophet Muhammad, became the second caliph, and Omar is also the usual English spelling of the 12th-century Persian poet Omar Khayyam.

Omar in Latin letters and in Arabic

Omar was one of the 500 most common names given to boys born in the US in 2024, in the Social Security Administration's 2024 national file, as copied in the usbabynames data package. Whatever Latin spelling you start from, the Arabic is عمر. Omar and Umar are one name. Its first letter is ʿayn, ع, a sound made deep in the throat that English does not have, and its first vowel is a short u, which Behind the Name gives as an o in Egyptian Arabic.

Do not build Omar from its English sound. A sound-by-sound converter turns it into أومار, letter by letter a, oo, m, aa, r, and that is what the rule engine of our own name tool gives, marked as an estimate. Arabic already has this name, so copy عمر.

The titles Arabic Wikipedia gives people called Omar show how Arabic writers handle the name:

The Egyptian actor Omar Sharif is عمر الشريف and the American actor Omar Epps is عمر إيبس: the Arabic spelling either way.

Two related names on this site are Ali in Arabic, علي and Hamza in Arabic, حمزة. For Arabic names to choose from, browse the Arabic boy names with their meanings, part of our Arabic vocabulary lists.

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