Osie — unisex name

What the Data Says About Osie

The Social Security Administration has registered 1,354 babies named Osie between 1880 and 1961, spanning 82 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Osie currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 1961. The name reached its historical peak in 1927, when 45 babies received it in a single year. Osie is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 748 additional births since 1884.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Osie performed strongest in the 1920s, accumulating 312 births during that ten-year window. Across the 9 decades of recorded activity, Osie shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Georgia, which accounts for 52 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Kentucky and Mississippi. In total, SSA state-level files list Osie in 9 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Osie 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 1,354 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.