Omari
An African name that carries the sense of flourishing and prosperity, from the root umar. In Poland it stays rare: only 92 men have it, so most Poles have never met one.
Omari Pronunciation
Omari is pronounced o-MAH-ree (/ɔˈmari/).
What Omari means
Where Omari comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Omari belongs to the Swahili coast of East Africa. It reached speakers in Kenya and Tanzania as a local form of the Arabic name Umar, carried by centuries of Indian Ocean trade. The short meaning tied to it, flourishing and prosperous, comes from that same root.
The name has no Polish diminutives or variants of its own. It arrives whole, five letters and a single r, with no local softening.
On the African side, Omari has served as a common given name for boys, familiar along the coast and further inland. Its link to Umar keeps it near the idea of prospering. For a Polish family the name reads as short and open, easy to call across a room. In a class register it lands near Oliwia and Oskar, and it means flourishing.
How many people are named Omari
1 in 232024 men in Poland is named Omari. 92 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #3644 among male names.
Omari as a middle name
Omari is a first name for 92 men in Poland and a middle name for another 5, a 95/5 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 4929th, between Oluwasegun (5) and Omran (5).
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#4927 Oluwanifemi5
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#4928 Oluwasegun5
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#4929 Omari5
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#4930 Omran5
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#4931 Onyedika5