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Othman name meaning

“baby bustard”

Letters
6
Syllables
2
First letter
O
Origin
Arabic
Category
Malay Names
Gender
♂ Boy
Peak 1950s: 8.6%
of the boy top-10 total
JPN Malay table, 1940s–2010s. JPN via data.gov.my (CC BY 4.0)
Decadeboy
1940s8.4%
1950s8.6%
1960s–
1970s–
1980s–
1990s–
2000s–
2010s–
58

records of Malaysian citizens on Wikidata carry the name Othman

A count of Wikidata records, not of the population.

Arabic origin

Othman is a boy's name from Arabic meaning 'baby bustard'.

What does Othman mean?

Baby bustard

In Malay: anak burung bustard

Sources (1)

About the name Othman

Othman is a spelling of Uthman (عثمان), meaning 'baby bustard', a large bird. It is well known as the name of Uthman ibn Affan, a companion of the Prophet Muhammad and the third caliph. JPN data shows its peak in the 1950s with 3,762 baby boys.

Gender♂ Boy
OriginArabic
Rootع ث م · ʿ-th-m
SyllablesOth-man
Arabic scriptعثمان

Othman in official JPN data

1940s
Boy: 1,704 · 8.4%
1950s
Boy: 3,762 · 8.6%
1960s
not in the top 10
1970s
not in the top 10
1980s
not in the top 10
1990s
not in the top 10
2000s
not in the top 10
2010s
not in the top 10
People registered with Othman as their first name (as published by JPN), by decade of birth, for the decades in which it was in the top 10 for its sex in the JPN Malay table. Bar length shows the name’s share of that decade’s top-10 total for the sex (the percentage after the count), because those totals differ between decades. Source: JPN via data.gov.my (CC BY 4.0)

Compound names with Othman

Sources

  1. Behind the Name: Uthman · behindthename.com · meaning

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