Osborne
Osborne was given to 22 boys in 2025, #4,662 among boys’ names; 1,754 Americans have been recorded with it since 1880 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Osborne by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Osborne mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Osborne is “a male given name from the Germanic languages, occasionally transferred from the surname.” Its etymology gives the senses “god” (áss) and “bear” (bjǫrn).
Also “an English surname transferred from the given name.”
From a medieval given name influenced by, or possibly derived from, Old Norse Ásbjǫrn, from áss (“god”) + bjǫrn (“bear”). Compare also Old English Ōsbeorn. Components related to Æsir and bear respectively.
/ˈɒzbɔː(ɹ)n/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Osborne?
#4,662 among boys’ names, 2025
Osborne rose from #7,889 in 2015 to #4,662 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 5.2 to 12.9 per million.
47 babies in 1915, the peak
Osborne peaked in 1915, when 47 boys were given it, #913 among boys’ names. The 22 births of 2025 are 47% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 22 | #4,662 | 12.9 |
| 2024 | 15 | #6,105 | 8.7 |
| 2023 | 14 | #6,425 | 8.2 |
| 2022 | 18 | #5,371 | 10.3 |
| 2021 | 16 | #5,713 | 9.1 |
| 2020 | 22 | #4,504 | 12.7 |
| 2019 | 21 | #4,752 | 11.7 |
| 2018 | 8 | #9,431 | 4.4 |
| 2017 | 13 | #6,568 | 7.0 |
| 2016 | 9 | #8,630 | 4.7 |
Every recorded year (117)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 10 | #7,889 | 5.2 |
| 2014 | 6 | #11,748 | 3.1 |
| 2013 | 9 | #8,584 | 4.8 |
| 2012 | 6 | #11,871 | 3.2 |
| 2011 | 8 | #9,374 | 4.2 |
| 2010 | 8 | #9,437 | 4.2 |
| 2009 | 5 | #13,940 | 2.5 |
| 2007 | 5 | #13,863 | 2.4 |
| 2006 | 5 | #13,477 | 2.4 |
| 2002 | 7 | #9,125 | 3.6 |
| 2001 | 6 | #10,186 | 3.1 |
| 2000 | 6 | #9,992 | 3.1 |
| 1999 | 5 | #11,128 | 2.6 |
| 1996 | 5 | #10,105 | 2.6 |
| 1990 | 5 | #9,113 | 2.4 |
| 1988 | 11 | #4,374 | 5.7 |
| 1986 | 6 | #6,499 | 3.3 |
| 1985 | 5 | #7,298 | 2.7 |
| 1984 | 7 | #5,417 | 3.9 |
| 1982 | 5 | #7,076 | 2.8 |
| 1981 | 12 | #3,551 | 6.7 |
| 1980 | 5 | #6,997 | 2.8 |
| 1978 | 8 | #4,448 | 4.9 |
| 1976 | 7 | #4,782 | 4.5 |
| 1975 | 5 | #6,058 | 3.2 |
| 1974 | 7 | #4,497 | 4.5 |
| 1973 | 5 | #5,657 | 3.2 |
| 1972 | 5 | #5,538 | 3.1 |
| 1971 | 7 | #4,260 | 4.0 |
| 1970 | 11 | #3,019 | 5.9 |
| 1969 | 5 | #4,843 | 2.8 |
| 1967 | 5 | #4,389 | 2.9 |
| 1966 | 9 | #2,922 | 5.0 |
| 1965 | 8 | #3,178 | 4.3 |
| 1964 | 15 | #2,171 | 7.5 |
| 1963 | 17 | #2,021 | 8.4 |
| 1962 | 6 | #3,919 | 2.9 |
| 1961 | 9 | #3,042 | 4.2 |
| 1960 | 17 | #2,018 | 8.0 |
| 1959 | 20 | #1,846 | 9.4 |
| 1958 | 19 | #1,877 | 9.0 |
| 1957 | 21 | #1,778 | 9.7 |
| 1956 | 13 | #2,341 | 6.1 |
| 1955 | 16 | #2,025 | 7.8 |
| 1954 | 13 | #2,284 | 6.4 |
| 1953 | 28 | #1,448 | 14.2 |
| 1952 | 13 | #2,227 | 6.7 |
| 1951 | 17 | #1,886 | 9.0 |
| 1950 | 16 | #1,932 | 8.9 |
| 1949 | 22 | #1,600 | 12.4 |
| 1948 | 16 | #1,925 | 9.1 |
| 1947 | 28 | #1,413 | 15.3 |
| 1946 | 18 | #1,740 | 11.1 |
| 1945 | 18 | #1,613 | 13.4 |
| 1944 | 15 | #1,860 | 11.0 |
| 1943 | 17 | #1,811 | 11.9 |
| 1942 | 21 | #1,577 | 15.2 |
| 1941 | 20 | #1,573 | 16.3 |
| 1940 | 16 | #1,781 | 13.8 |
| 1939 | 16 | #1,775 | 14.5 |
| 1938 | 13 | #2,066 | 11.7 |
| 1937 | 22 | #1,476 | 20.6 |
| 1936 | 30 | #1,220 | 28.9 |
| 1935 | 24 | #1,416 | 23.0 |
| 1934 | 13 | #2,094 | 12.6 |
| 1933 | 17 | #1,757 | 17.1 |
| 1932 | 26 | #1,374 | 24.9 |
| 1931 | 21 | #1,580 | 20.2 |
| 1930 | 22 | #1,591 | 20.0 |
| 1929 | 19 | #1,774 | 17.7 |
| 1928 | 26 | #1,477 | 23.5 |
| 1927 | 29 | #1,398 | 25.7 |
| 1926 | 33 | #1,273 | 29.7 |
| 1925 | 38 | #1,163 | 34.1 |
| 1924 | 30 | #1,374 | 26.5 |
| 1923 | 29 | #1,376 | 26.5 |
| 1922 | 31 | #1,327 | 28.5 |
| 1921 | 36 | #1,221 | 32.7 |
| 1920 | 37 | #1,203 | 34.8 |
| 1919 | 35 | #1,205 | 35.7 |
| 1918 | 37 | #1,148 | 36.5 |
| 1917 | 41 | #1,031 | 44.3 |
| 1916 | 38 | #1,054 | 42.7 |
| 1915 | 47 | #913 | 55.4 |
| 1914 | 30 | #1,044 | 45.8 |
| 1913 | 25 | #1,019 | 48.8 |
| 1912 | 28 | #847 | 65.1 |
| 1911 | 14 | #915 | 62.0 |
| 1910 | 19 | #699 | 97.8 |
| 1909 | 6 | #1,408 | 36.6 |
| 1908 | 5 | #1,537 | 32.4 |
| 1907 | 6 | #1,302 | 40.9 |
| 1906 | 7 | #1,089 | 52.6 |
| 1905 | 9 | #901 | 68.0 |
| 1903 | 6 | #1,099 | 50.3 |
| 1902 | 5 | #1,265 | 40.8 |
| 1901 | 5 | #1,168 | 47.0 |
| 1900 | 6 | #1,275 | 39.9 |
| 1899 | 6 | #1,021 | 56.5 |
| 1896 | 6 | #1,072 | 50.2 |
| 1894 | 7 | #930 | 60.5 |
| 1893 | 5 | #1,147 | 44.5 |
| 1888 | 7 | #895 | 57.9 |
| 1886 | 6 | #936 | 54.2 |
| 1885 | 6 | #911 | 55.7 |
| 1884 | 5 | #1,081 | 43.7 |
| 1880 | 7 | #789 | 63.4 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Osborne a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Osborne has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 117 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Osborne: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Osborne, and how old are they?
An estimated 646 Americans named Osborne and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (37% of everyone recorded); the median is 52 years old and half are between 11 and 72. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 677 people named Osborne (16 women and girls, 661 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 641 born in the U.S. The Census count is 6% above that prediction.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Of these 3 names spelled alike, given to 2,421 babies since 1880, Osborne is the most given (72% of them). In 2025 it was given to 22 of their 39 babies (56%), again the most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Osborne
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Osborne and names like it
- Compare Osborne and OsbornBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1910sOsborne peaked in 1915.
- North Carolina’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Osborne since 1910.
- Germanic namesWiktionary’s origin for Osborne: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1915The year the most babies were named Osborne.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Osborne alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with OMost given first.