Oshay
Oshay was last recorded in 2024, when 8 babies were given it; 439 Americans have been recorded with it between 1980 and 2024 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Oshay by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Oshay?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #9,630, in 2024; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
46 babies in 1992, the peak
Oshay peaked in 1992, when 46 babies were given it (34 boys, #2,239 among boys’ names). It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 8 | #9,630 | 4.6 |
| 2023 | 9 | #8,740 | 5.3 |
| 2022 | 7 | #10,569 | 4.0 |
| 2021 | 5 | #13,558 | 2.9 |
| 2020 | 12 | #6,921 | 7.0 |
| 2019 | 5 | #13,609 | 2.8 |
| 2018 | 9 | #8,639 | 5.0 |
| 2017 | 6 | #11,822 | 3.2 |
| 2016 | 10 | #8,001 | 5.3 |
| 2015 | 7 | #10,324 | 3.7 |
Every recorded year (34)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 6 | #11,873 | 3.2 |
| 2011 | 5 | #13,778 | 2.6 |
| 2010 | 5 | #13,728 | 2.6 |
| 2009 | 9 | #8,807 | 4.5 |
| 2008 | 6 | #12,165 | 2.9 |
| 2007 | 6 | #11,970 | 2.9 |
| 2005 | 6 | #11,095 | 3.0 |
| 2004 | 6 | #10,957 | 3.0 |
| 2003 | 8 | #8,411 | 4.0 |
| 2002 | 5 | #11,978 | 2.6 |
| 2001 | 10 | #6,788 | 5.1 |
| 2000 | 8 | #7,984 | 4.1 |
| 1999 | 11 | #5,936 | 5.7 |
| 1998 | 15 | #4,579 | 7.8 |
| 1997 | 21 | #3,422 | 11.1 |
| 1996 | 22 | #3,261 | 11.6 |
| 1995 | 23 | #3,064 | 12.1 |
| 1994 | 45 | #1,880 | 23.3 |
| 1993 | 40 | #2,034 | 20.4 |
| 1992 | 34 | #2,239 | 17.0 |
| 1991 | 8 | #6,360 | 4.0 |
| 1989 | 7 | #6,731 | 3.5 |
| 1986 | 11 | #4,053 | 6.0 |
| 1980 | 5 | #6,998 | 2.8 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Oshay a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 439 Americans recorded as Oshay, 9% are girls and 91% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Oshay: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Oshay, and how old are they?
An estimated 428 Americans named Oshay and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 30 years old and half are between 18 and 33. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 355 people named Oshay (62 women and girls, 293 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 393 born in the U.S. The Census count is 10% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
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 4 names spelled alike, given to 2,071 babies since 1880, Oshay is the second most given (21% of them). In 2025 none of their 61 babies recorded by SSA was a Oshay (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Oshay
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 Oshay and names like it
- Compare Oshay and OsheaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sOshay peaked in 1992.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Oshay since 1910.
- The top names of 1992The year the most babies were named Oshay.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Oshay alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with OMost given first.