Given name

Umaru

Umaru is a masculine given name from Arabic. It is used in Hausa.

Meaning & origin

Where it comes from

Umaru comes from Arabic.

Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)

How it developed

From Arabic عُمَر.

Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)

Umaru’s family of names

In Hausa usage, Umaru has a conventional equivalent in the English form Omar.

Walk Umaru’s family in the name graph

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The ring: across languages.

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