Osha — unisex name

What the Data Says About Osha

The Social Security Administration has registered 279 babies named Osha between 1924 and 2022, spanning 99 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Osha currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2022. The name reached its historical peak in 1989, when 16 babies received it in a single year. Osha is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 85 additional births since 1974.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Osha performed strongest in the 1990s, accumulating 121 births during that ten-year window. Across the 6 decades of recorded activity, Osha shows a clear decline from its mid-century high.

No etymological entry is currently available for Osha in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 279 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.