Osiris
Osiris was given to 200 boys in 2025, #1,077 among boys’ names; 4,475 Americans have been recorded with it since 1970 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 4,410 Americans named Osiris and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 10 years old and half are between 5 and 21.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Osiris by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Osiris?
#1,077 among boys’ names, 2025
Osiris rose from #1,610 in 2015 to #1,077 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 0.05 to 0.12 per 1,000.
254 babies in 2023, the peak
Osiris peaked in 2023, when 254 babies were given it (240 boys, #944 among boys’ names). The 215 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 85% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 15 | #7,403 | 200 | #1,077 |
| 2024 | 19 | #6,340 | 231 | #979 |
| 2023 | 14 | #7,952 | 240 | #944 |
| 2022 | 10 | #10,216 | 233 | #973 |
| 2021 | 10 | #10,127 | 243 | #932 |
| 2020 | 8 | #11,863 | 244 | #917 |
| 2019 | 15 | #7,626 | 205 | #1,016 |
| 2018 | 10 | #10,367 | 186 | #1,072 |
| 2017 | 12 | #9,205 | 181 | #1,085 |
| 2016 | 18 | #6,845 | 133 | #1,344 |
Every recorded year (55)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 11 | #9,985 | 100 | #1,610 |
| 2014 | 18 | #6,923 | 91 | #1,690 |
| 2013 | 14 | #8,460 | 102 | #1,555 |
| 2012 | 18 | #7,075 | 72 | #1,978 |
| 2011 | 19 | #6,784 | 65 | #2,073 |
| 2010 | 21 | #6,331 | 68 | #2,028 |
| 2009 | 32 | #4,654 | 58 | #2,276 |
| 2008 | 35 | #4,427 | 72 | #1,976 |
| 2007 | 52 | #3,280 | 60 | #2,230 |
| 2006 | 55 | #3,078 | 51 | #2,435 |
| 2005 | 39 | #3,784 | 67 | #1,904 |
| 2004 | 38 | #3,795 | 54 | #2,180 |
| 2003 | 36 | #3,854 | 41 | #2,537 |
| 2002 | 40 | #3,447 | 54 | #2,036 |
| 2001 | 45 | #3,125 | 43 | #2,329 |
| 2000 | 30 | #4,144 | 40 | #2,410 |
| 1999 | 31 | #3,861 | 45 | #2,128 |
| 1998 | 12 | #7,895 | 31 | #2,687 |
| 1997 | 22 | #4,774 | 51 | #1,848 |
| 1996 | 21 | #4,835 | 35 | #2,318 |
| 1995 | 22 | #4,637 | 26 | #2,819 |
| 1994 | 15 | #6,223 | 23 | #3,075 |
| 1993 | 10 | #8,517 | 13 | #4,620 |
| 1992 | 19 | #5,201 | 26 | #2,718 |
| 1991 | 17 | #5,586 | 23 | #2,884 |
| 1990 | 9 | #9,010 | 22 | #2,924 |
| 1989 | 5 | #13,866 | 9 | #5,474 |
| 1988 | 10 | #7,517 | 8 | #5,581 |
| 1987 | 8 | #8,519 | 9 | #4,846 |
| 1986 | 5 | #12,258 | 7 | #5,753 |
| 1985 | 9 | #7,380 | 11 | #3,967 |
| 1984 | 5 | #11,642 | 12 | #3,614 |
| 1983 | 6 | #9,858 | under 5 | |
| 1982 | 6 | #10,090 | 12 | #3,633 |
| 1981 | 5 | #11,622 | 12 | #3,552 |
| 1980 | 6 | #9,986 | 10 | #4,051 |
| 1979 | 6 | #9,830 | 10 | #3,997 |
| 1978 | under 5 | 7 | #4,904 | |
| 1977 | under 5 | 13 | #3,153 | |
| 1975 | under 5 | 6 | #5,277 | |
| 1974 | under 5 | 5 | #5,783 | |
| 1973 | under 5 | 5 | #5,659 | |
| 1972 | under 5 | 12 | #2,946 | |
| 1971 | under 5 | 8 | #3,865 | |
| 1970 | under 5 | 7 | #4,124 |
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 Osiris a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 4,475 Americans recorded as Osiris, 20% are girls and 80% boys. Boys have outnumbered girls among babies named Osiris every year since 2007. In 2025 it went to 15 girls and 200 boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Osiris: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Osiris, and how old are they?
4,410 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 4,475 Americans ever recorded as Osiris. The median Osiris alive today is 10 years old; half are between 5 and 21.
The 2020 Census counted 4,075 people named Osiris (1,692 women and girls, 2,383 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 3,032 born in the U.S. The Census count is 34% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 86 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 405 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,380 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 2,550 |
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).
Where are babies named Osiris born?
The states with the most babies named Osiris are California, Texas and Florida, with 38% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 21 | #1,031 | 1.3× |
| Texas | 19 | #1,158 | 0.9× |
| Florida | 15 | #947 | 0.6× |
| Massachusetts | 9 | #543 | 0.5× |
| Washington | 9 | #718 | 0.3× |
| Georgia | 8 | #1,061 | 0.5× |
| Michigan | 8 | #883 | 0.3× |
| Ohio | 7 | #1,089 | 0.5× |
| Indiana | 7 | #825 | 0.5× |
| Tennessee | 7 | #900 | 0.3× |
Where Osiris is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Osiris is most over-represented in California: since 1970 it was given 1.3 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Osiris with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 3 names spelled alike, given to 4,595 babies since 1880, Osiris is the most given (97% of them). In 2025 it was given to 215 of their 221 babies (97%), 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 Osiris
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 Osiris and names like it
- Compare Osiris and OsirusBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sOsiris peaked in 2023.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Osiris since 1910.
- The top names of 2023The year the most babies were named Osiris.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Osiris alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with OMost given first.