Oshea
Oshea was given to 54 boys in 2025, #2,507 among boys’ names; 1,288 Americans have been recorded with it since 1979 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,270 Americans named Oshea and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 13 years old and half are between 7 and 29.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Oshea by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Oshea?
#2,507 among boys’ names, 2025
Oshea rose from #2,707 in 2015 to #2,507 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 23.5 to 31.6 per million.
66 babies in 2019, the peak
Oshea peaked in 2019, when 66 babies were given it (59 boys, #2,328 among boys’ names). The 54 births of 2025 are 82% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 54 | #2,507 | 31.6 |
| 2024 | 48 | #2,737 | 27.9 |
| 2023 | 52 | #2,571 | 30.4 |
| 2022 | 50 | #2,668 | 28.6 |
| 2021 | 47 | #2,720 | 26.9 |
| 2020 | 48 | #2,648 | 27.8 |
| 2019 | 59 | #2,328 | 32.9 |
| 2018 | 63 | #2,202 | 34.7 |
| 2017 | 57 | #2,306 | 30.8 |
| 2016 | 64 | #2,158 | 33.7 |
Every recorded year (40)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 45 | #2,707 | 23.5 |
| 2014 | 20 | #4,813 | 10.4 |
| 2013 | 21 | #4,570 | 11.1 |
| 2012 | 11 | #7,407 | 5.8 |
| 2011 | 8 | #9,375 | 4.2 |
| 2010 | 15 | #5,955 | 7.8 |
| 2009 | 17 | #5,480 | 8.6 |
| 2008 | 21 | #4,660 | 10.3 |
| 2007 | 17 | #5,367 | 8.2 |
| 2006 | 23 | #4,186 | 11.2 |
| 2005 | 13 | #6,122 | 6.5 |
| 2004 | 17 | #4,946 | 8.6 |
| 2003 | 21 | #4,069 | 10.6 |
| 2002 | 18 | #4,445 | 9.3 |
| 2001 | 19 | #4,239 | 9.8 |
| 2000 | 25 | #3,387 | 12.7 |
| 1999 | 22 | #3,554 | 11.5 |
| 1998 | 28 | #2,902 | 14.6 |
| 1997 | 35 | #2,382 | 18.6 |
| 1996 | 37 | #2,238 | 19.5 |
| 1995 | 49 | #1,792 | 25.7 |
| 1994 | 43 | #1,955 | 22.3 |
| 1993 | 54 | #1,651 | 27.5 |
| 1992 | 44 | #1,866 | 22.0 |
| 1991 | 15 | #3,954 | 7.4 |
| 1990 | 5 | #9,114 | 2.4 |
| 1989 | 8 | #6,059 | 4.0 |
| 1988 | 5 | #8,179 | 2.6 |
| 1987 | 9 | #4,845 | 4.8 |
| 1986 | 20 | #2,660 | 10.9 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Oshea a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,288 Americans recorded as Oshea, 5% are girls and 95% boys. In 2025 it went to 54 boys; SSA lists no girls with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Oshea: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Oshea, and how old are they?
1,270 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 1,288 Americans ever recorded as Oshea. The median Oshea alive today is 13 years old; half are between 7 and 29.
The 2020 Census counted 852 people named Oshea (128 women and girls, 724 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 978 born in the U.S. The Census count is 13% 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.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 5 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 298 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 322 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 640 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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, Oshea is the most given (62% of them). In 2025 it was given to 54 of their 61 babies (89%), 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 Oshea
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 Oshea and names like it
- Compare Oshea and OshayBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sOshea peaked in 2019.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Oshea since 1910.
- The top names of 2019The year the most babies were named Oshea.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Oshea alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with OMost given first.