Osie
Osie was last recorded in 1982, when 5 babies were given it; 2,102 Americans have been recorded with it between 1880 and 1982 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Osie by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Osie?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #7,265, in 1961; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
66 babies in 1927, the peak
Osie peaked in 1927, when 66 babies were given it (45 girls, #1,156 among girls’ names). It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1982 | under 5 | 5 | #7,078 | |
| 1973 | under 5 | 5 | #5,658 | |
| 1971 | under 5 | 7 | #4,261 | |
| 1969 | under 5 | 6 | #4,279 | |
| 1968 | under 5 | 5 | #4,578 | |
| 1963 | under 5 | 5 | #4,464 | |
| 1961 | 5 | #7,265 | 6 | #3,944 |
| 1960 | 6 | #6,197 | under 5 | |
| 1959 | under 5 | 7 | #3,504 | |
| 1958 | under 5 | 10 | #2,766 |
Every recorded year (88)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1957 | 6 | #5,895 | 10 | #2,778 |
| 1956 | under 5 | 8 | #3,131 | |
| 1955 | under 5 | 8 | #3,139 | |
| 1954 | 5 | #6,378 | 10 | #2,686 |
| 1953 | 9 | #4,154 | 12 | #2,365 |
| 1952 | under 5 | 11 | #2,466 | |
| 1951 | 5 | #6,012 | 14 | #2,119 |
| 1950 | 6 | #5,135 | 10 | #2,541 |
| 1949 | 9 | #3,816 | 11 | #2,424 |
| 1948 | 9 | #3,799 | 11 | #2,412 |
| 1947 | 12 | #3,183 | 7 | #3,284 |
| 1946 | 6 | #4,826 | 11 | #2,367 |
| 1945 | under 5 | 12 | #2,099 | |
| 1944 | 13 | #2,588 | 13 | #2,058 |
| 1943 | 17 | #2,219 | 13 | #2,150 |
| 1942 | 16 | #2,286 | 6 | #3,468 |
| 1941 | 16 | #2,165 | 8 | #2,823 |
| 1940 | 13 | #2,387 | 5 | #3,810 |
| 1939 | 10 | #2,878 | 12 | #2,138 |
| 1938 | 13 | #2,416 | 14 | #1,955 |
| 1937 | 15 | #2,165 | 6 | #3,426 |
| 1936 | 13 | #2,360 | 11 | #2,259 |
| 1935 | 17 | #1,981 | 11 | #2,359 |
| 1934 | 17 | #1,978 | 17 | #1,771 |
| 1933 | 22 | #1,645 | 16 | #1,813 |
| 1932 | 29 | #1,417 | 15 | #1,978 |
| 1931 | 21 | #1,728 | 18 | #1,757 |
| 1930 | 22 | #1,741 | 18 | #1,799 |
| 1929 | 21 | #1,807 | 12 | #2,423 |
| 1928 | 17 | #2,167 | 14 | #2,235 |
| 1927 | 45 | #1,156 | 21 | #1,736 |
| 1926 | 24 | #1,761 | 14 | #2,276 |
| 1925 | 34 | #1,403 | 12 | #2,549 |
| 1924 | 32 | #1,497 | 21 | #1,763 |
| 1923 | 39 | #1,263 | 10 | #2,892 |
| 1922 | 25 | #1,716 | 16 | #2,119 |
| 1921 | 38 | #1,273 | 17 | #2,034 |
| 1920 | 37 | #1,273 | 9 | #3,149 |
| 1919 | 34 | #1,343 | 17 | #1,951 |
| 1918 | 38 | #1,229 | 16 | #2,050 |
| 1917 | 35 | #1,235 | 16 | #1,961 |
| 1916 | 30 | #1,352 | 13 | #2,230 |
| 1915 | 33 | #1,217 | 22 | #1,493 |
| 1914 | 22 | #1,372 | 12 | #1,941 |
| 1913 | 23 | #1,169 | 17 | #1,302 |
| 1912 | 32 | #898 | 15 | #1,252 |
| 1911 | 19 | #1,026 | 5 | #1,933 |
| 1910 | 28 | #828 | 11 | #1,027 |
| 1909 | 23 | #864 | 9 | #1,066 |
| 1908 | 16 | #1,036 | 14 | #736 |
| 1907 | 16 | #981 | 6 | #1,303 |
| 1906 | 20 | #837 | 5 | #1,373 |
| 1905 | 15 | #1,000 | 8 | #984 |
| 1904 | 11 | #1,155 | 6 | #1,175 |
| 1903 | 22 | #728 | under 5 | |
| 1902 | 20 | #790 | under 5 | |
| 1901 | 15 | #876 | under 5 | |
| 1900 | 31 | #637 | 12 | #771 |
| 1899 | 14 | #900 | under 5 | |
| 1898 | 17 | #836 | 5 | #1,257 |
| 1897 | 15 | #860 | 5 | #1,187 |
| 1896 | 16 | #834 | under 5 | |
| 1895 | 10 | #1,105 | 8 | #852 |
| 1894 | 13 | #892 | under 5 | |
| 1893 | 13 | #854 | under 5 | |
| 1892 | 10 | #1,004 | under 5 | |
| 1891 | 10 | #934 | under 5 | |
| 1890 | 11 | #862 | under 5 | |
| 1889 | 11 | #830 | under 5 | |
| 1888 | 14 | #715 | under 5 | |
| 1887 | 11 | #721 | under 5 | |
| 1886 | 14 | #629 | under 5 | |
| 1885 | 10 | #731 | under 5 | |
| 1884 | 10 | #717 | 6 | #945 |
| 1883 | 7 | #803 | under 5 | |
| 1882 | 7 | #795 | under 5 | |
| 1881 | 6 | #802 | under 5 | |
| 1880 | 8 | #666 | under 5 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Osie a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 2,102 Americans recorded as Osie, 64% are girls and 36% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Osie: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Osie, and how old are they?
An estimated 291 Americans named Osie and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (14% of everyone recorded); the median is 78 years old and half are between 71 and 85. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 432 people named Osie (209 women and girls, 223 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 424 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2% 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 4 names spelled alike, given to 7,523 babies since 1880, Osie is the second most given (28% of them).
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 Osie
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 Osie and names like it
- Compare Osie and OssieBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1920sOsie peaked in 1927.
- Georgia’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Osie since 1910.
- The top names of 1927The year the most babies were named Osie.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Osie alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with OMost given first.