Omar — Name Meaning in Islam

Root: ع-م-ر (ʿ-m-r), "to live long, to thrive, to build up and inhabit". ʿUmar carries the sense of a long, flourishing life and of a place made prosperous by being lived in.

From the same root: ʿumr (lifespan), ʿumra (the lesser pilgrimage), ʿimāra (building, construction), maʿmūr (inhabited, thriving), ʿĀmir, ʿAmmār.

Who carried it: Umar ibn al-Khattab, the second caliph, remembered for a plainness of living that did not change when the state expanded to Persia and Syria, and for the administrative institutions — the Hijri calendar among them — that date from his rule.

Spellings: Umar, Omar, Ömer (Turkish), Umar (Indonesian, Urdu), عمر.

Pronunciation: ʿU-mar, opening with ʿayn. The Arabic is ʿUmar; "Omar" is the spelling that entered European languages through the Ottoman and Maghrebi pronunciations.

Note: ʿUmar and ʿAmr (عمرو) are different names from the same root and are not interchangeable.