Othman
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Archaic form of Ottoman (kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations))
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 31 countries
/othman/(machine-generated) Malay · model-generated
Othman is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Türkiye than in any other country, where it is the 15th most common given name. Othman is also written อุสมาน in Thai, Осман in Cyrillic and ოსმან in Georgian.
- MAMorocco≈1 in 1.8K(inferred from the name graph)
- MYMalaysia≈1 in 4.5K
- TRTürkiye1 in 264as Osman
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Othman itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Türkiye (measured from records)
- #314 (measured from records)
- 5 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 308 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.8K (inferred from the name graph)
310,387 named Osman, 2025
of 15M given names, spellings grouped
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Morocco, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Othman in other scripts: Latin, Thai, Cyrillic and 2 more
(measured from records)Locally spelled Osman in TR Türkiye, CY Cyprus, SD Sudan, Osama in EG Egypt, SA Saudi Arabia, JO Jordan and Usama in PK Pakistan.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
How to pronounce Othman
- Malay:/othman/(machine-generated) model-generated
Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Archaic form of Ottoman.
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 9 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Othman counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TR Türkiye | #15 | 310,387as Osman | 1 in 264 | 310K | Osman | 155 |
| EG Egypt | #52 | ≈220,000 est. | ≈1 in 520 | listed | Osama | 188 |
| PK Pakistan | #228 | ≈180,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.4K | listed | Usama | 123 |
| SD Sudan | #3 | ≈83,000 est. | ≈1 in 607 | 1 | Osman | 78 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | #47 | ≈49,000 est. | ≈1 in 719 | listed | Osama | 182 |
| JO Jordan | #100 | ≈41,000 est. | ≈1 in 279 | — | Osama | 123 |
| MA Morocco | — | ≈22,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.8K | listed | Othman | 101 |
| CY Cyprus | #20 | ≈5,100 est. | ≈1 in 268 | — | Osman | 31 |
310,387 people counted by TÜİK NIP — most used given names, 2025. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: TÜİK NIP — most used given names; Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Abdul Hamid Othmanb. 1939politician (1939-2011)
- Mazlan Othmanb. 1951MYMalaysian physicist
- Jibril Othmanb. 2004TNTunisian association football player
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Othman mean, and where does it come from?
- Archaic form of Ottoman. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What are other forms of the name Othman?
- In the etymology graph, Usman, Uthman and Cismaan are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Othman?
- In Malay /othman/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Which countries have the most people named Othman?
- In Türkiye, the national register counted about 310 thousand people named Osman, more than in any other country we hold. After it come Egypt, Pakistan, Sudan and Saudi Arabia; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Othman?
- In Türkiye, the national register counted 310,387 people named Osman in 2025, about 1 in 264 residents.
- How common is Othman compared with other names?
- In Türkiye, Othman is the 15th most common given name of 264,080 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Othman?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/othmanThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Othman” — ranked 13th in Türkiye (TÜİK NIP, 2025). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.