Oskar — #1720 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Oskar

The Social Security Administration has registered 3,148 babies named Oskar between 1916 and 2024, spanning 109 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Oskar currently holds the #1720 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2016, when 160 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Oskar performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 1,318 births during that ten-year window. Across the 9 decades of recorded activity, Oskar shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 458 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by New York and Minnesota. In total, SSA state-level files list Oskar in 21 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Oskar 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 3,148 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.