Oskar
Oskar was given to 93 boys in 2025, #1,750 among boys’ names; 3,241 Americans have been recorded with it since 1916 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 3,180 Americans named Oskar 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 20.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Oskar by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Oskar mean?
Wiktionary, German section
Oskar is “a male given name”
Borrowed from English Oscar, from Middle Irish Oscar.
/ˈɔskaʁ/
Meaning: Wiktionary, German section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Oskar?
#1,750 among boys’ names, 2025
Oskar fell from #1,488 in 2015 to #1,750 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 58.4 to 54.4 per million.
160 babies in 2016, the peak
Oskar peaked in 2016, when 160 boys were given it, #1,191 among boys’ names. The 93 births of 2025 are 58% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 93 | #1,750 | 54.4 |
| 2024 | 96 | #1,730 | 55.7 |
| 2023 | 125 | #1,454 | 73.1 |
| 2022 | 136 | #1,378 | 77.9 |
| 2021 | 122 | #1,476 | 69.7 |
| 2020 | 144 | #1,279 | 83.4 |
| 2019 | 130 | #1,378 | 72.5 |
| 2018 | 134 | #1,345 | 73.8 |
| 2017 | 128 | #1,381 | 69.2 |
| 2016 | 160 | #1,191 | 84.3 |
Every recorded year (56)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 112 | #1,488 | 58.4 |
| 2014 | 134 | #1,315 | 69.8 |
| 2013 | 132 | #1,312 | 69.8 |
| 2012 | 136 | #1,290 | 71.7 |
| 2011 | 122 | #1,374 | 64.2 |
| 2010 | 130 | #1,320 | 67.8 |
| 2009 | 137 | #1,287 | 69.1 |
| 2008 | 95 | #1,638 | 46.6 |
| 2007 | 96 | #1,620 | 46.3 |
| 2006 | 113 | #1,406 | 55.0 |
| 2005 | 81 | #1,667 | 40.6 |
| 2004 | 75 | #1,710 | 37.8 |
| 2003 | 61 | #1,923 | 30.9 |
| 2002 | 69 | #1,702 | 35.5 |
| 2001 | 56 | #1,945 | 28.8 |
| 2000 | 39 | #2,458 | 19.9 |
| 1999 | 35 | #2,536 | 18.2 |
| 1998 | 38 | #2,338 | 19.9 |
| 1997 | 27 | #2,876 | 14.3 |
| 1996 | 26 | #2,885 | 13.7 |
| 1995 | 26 | #2,820 | 13.7 |
| 1994 | 26 | #2,821 | 13.5 |
| 1993 | 25 | #2,844 | 12.7 |
| 1992 | 26 | #2,719 | 13.0 |
| 1991 | 16 | #3,764 | 7.9 |
| 1990 | 15 | #3,908 | 7.3 |
| 1989 | 5 | #8,877 | 2.5 |
| 1988 | 12 | #4,092 | 6.3 |
| 1987 | 8 | #5,310 | 4.3 |
| 1986 | 9 | #4,734 | 4.9 |
| 1985 | 6 | #6,302 | 3.2 |
| 1984 | 5 | #7,033 | 2.8 |
| 1983 | 5 | #7,008 | 2.8 |
| 1982 | 6 | #6,184 | 3.3 |
| 1981 | 7 | #5,331 | 3.9 |
| 1980 | 6 | #6,031 | 3.4 |
| 1978 | 5 | #6,506 | 3.0 |
| 1976 | 5 | #6,238 | 3.2 |
| 1975 | 5 | #6,059 | 3.2 |
| 1973 | 6 | #4,917 | 3.8 |
| 1972 | 8 | #3,873 | 4.9 |
| 1971 | 5 | #5,449 | 2.8 |
| 1968 | 5 | #4,579 | 2.9 |
| 1965 | 6 | #3,817 | 3.2 |
| 1922 | 6 | #4,194 | 5.5 |
| 1916 | 5 | #4,339 | 5.6 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Oskar a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Oskar has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 56 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Oskar: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Oskar, and how old are they?
3,180 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 3,241 Americans ever recorded as Oskar. The median Oskar alive today is 13 years old; half are between 7 and 20.
The 2020 Census counted 2,930 people named Oskar (6 women and girls, 2,924 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,519 born in the U.S. The Census count is 16% 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 | 45 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 213 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,290 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,630 |
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 Oskar born?
The states with the most babies named Oskar are California, Minnesota and New York, with 55% of its births recorded by state in 2025; Minnesota is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 10 | #1,659 | 1.1× |
| Minnesota | 10 | #539 | 3.2× |
| New York | 9 | #1,268 | 1.2× |
| Illinois | 9 | #916 | 1.3× |
| Washington | 5 | #1,111 | 1.6× |
| Michigan | 5 | #1,223 | 0.7× |
| New Jersey | 5 | #1,142 | 0.2× |
Where Oskar is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Oskar is most over-represented in Minnesota: since 1916 it was given 3.2 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 Oskar 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 217,619 babies since 1880, Oskar is the second most given (1.5% of them). In 2025 it was given to 93 of their 1,713 babies (5.4%), again the second 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 Oskar
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 Oskar and names like it
- Compare Oskar and OscarBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sOskar peaked in 2016.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Oskar since 1910.
- German namesWiktionary’s origin for Oskar: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2016The year the most babies were named Oskar.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Oskar alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with OMost given first.