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Omar (male)

Variants:Omer (M) Umar (M)
   
Source(s): The Oxford Names Companion, OUP
Think Baby Names website; Wiktionary website
Notes:

English from a biblical reference (OT, Genesis 36:11).  The meaning is variously given as "speaker" or "flourishing, long-lived".

Arabic meaning "Nation" and used in reference to the Islamic nation.
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