Almaz (አልማዝ) is the Amharic and Tigrinya word for "diamond" — derived from the Arabic al-mās. Used widely in Ethiopia and Eritrea.
Almaz Ayana (born 1991) is the Ethiopian Olympic gold medalist long-distance runner who broke the 10,000m world record in 2016.
Almaz does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.
In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Almaz reduce to 8, The Visionary. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.