Osman
Osman was given to 181 boys in 2025, #1,157 among boys’ names; 3,893 Americans have been recorded with it since 1917 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 3,810 Americans named Osman and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 13 years old and half are between 5 and 24.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Osman by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Osman mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Osman is “a male given name from the Germanic languages, variant of Osmond, rare in English.” Its etymology gives the senses “a god” (áss) and “protection, hand” (mund).
Also “a male given name from Iranian Persian”
Inherited from Middle English, from Old Norse Ásmundr, from áss (“a god”) + mund (“protection, hand”).
/ˈɒzmən/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Osman?
#1,157 among boys’ names, 2025
Osman rose from #1,623 in 2015 to #1,157 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 0.05 to 0.11 per 1,000.
231 babies in 2022, the peak
Osman peaked in 2022, when 231 boys were given it, #977 among boys’ names. The 181 births of 2025 are 78% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 181 | #1,157 | 0.11 |
| 2024 | 217 | #1,029 | 0.13 |
| 2023 | 223 | #991 | 0.13 |
| 2022 | 231 | #977 | 0.13 |
| 2021 | 224 | #985 | 0.13 |
| 2020 | 166 | #1,162 | 0.10 |
| 2019 | 144 | #1,293 | 0.08 |
| 2018 | 116 | #1,496 | 0.06 |
| 2017 | 114 | #1,485 | 0.06 |
| 2016 | 86 | #1,780 | 0.05 |
Every recorded year (61)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 99 | #1,623 | 0.05 |
| 2014 | 79 | #1,868 | 0.04 |
| 2013 | 69 | #2,005 | 0.04 |
| 2012 | 85 | #1,770 | 0.04 |
| 2011 | 58 | #2,255 | 0.03 |
| 2010 | 94 | #1,663 | 0.05 |
| 2009 | 118 | #1,431 | 0.06 |
| 2008 | 100 | #1,591 | 0.05 |
| 2007 | 107 | #1,493 | 0.05 |
| 2006 | 103 | #1,487 | 0.05 |
| 2005 | 84 | #1,627 | 0.04 |
| 2004 | 80 | #1,622 | 0.04 |
| 2003 | 78 | #1,623 | 0.04 |
| 2002 | 85 | #1,491 | 0.04 |
| 2001 | 75 | #1,594 | 0.04 |
| 2000 | 79 | #1,531 | 0.04 |
| 1999 | 63 | #1,681 | 0.03 |
| 1998 | 61 | #1,690 | 0.03 |
| 1997 | 58 | #1,699 | 0.03 |
| 1996 | 44 | #2,005 | 0.02 |
| 1995 | 34 | #2,327 | 0.02 |
| 1994 | 53 | #1,702 | 0.03 |
| 1993 | 37 | #2,147 | 0.02 |
| 1992 | 41 | #1,970 | 0.02 |
| 1991 | 43 | #1,849 | 0.02 |
| 1990 | 35 | #2,111 | 0.02 |
| 1989 | 39 | #1,906 | 0.02 |
| 1988 | 27 | #2,286 | 0.01 |
| 1987 | 20 | #2,689 | 0.01 |
| 1986 | 17 | #2,970 | 0.01 |
| 1985 | 20 | #2,569 | 0.01 |
| 1984 | 16 | #2,914 | 0.01 |
| 1983 | 19 | #2,548 | 0.01 |
| 1982 | 18 | #2,671 | 0.01 |
| 1981 | 17 | #2,748 | 0.01 |
| 1980 | 16 | #2,924 | 0.01 |
| 1979 | 14 | #3,118 | 0.01 |
| 1978 | 6 | #5,577 | under 0.01 |
| 1977 | 9 | #4,071 | 0.01 |
| 1976 | 9 | #3,921 | 0.01 |
| 1975 | 9 | #3,856 | 0.01 |
| 1974 | 7 | #4,498 | under 0.01 |
| 1973 | 5 | #5,660 | under 0.01 |
| 1971 | 8 | #3,866 | under 0.01 |
| 1970 | 10 | #3,216 | 0.01 |
| 1969 | 8 | #3,509 | under 0.01 |
| 1968 | 6 | #4,009 | under 0.01 |
| 1960 | 5 | #4,445 | under 0.01 |
| 1959 | 8 | #3,215 | under 0.01 |
| 1957 | 5 | #4,397 | under 0.01 |
| 1917 | 11 | #2,526 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Osman a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Osman has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 61 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Osman: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Osman, and how old are they?
3,810 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 3,893 Americans ever recorded as Osman. The median Osman alive today is 13 years old; half are between 5 and 24.
The 2020 Census counted 7,199 people named Osman (35 women and girls, 7,164 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,635 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.7 times 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 13 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 96 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 458 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,310 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,940 |
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 Osman born?
The states with the most babies named Osman are California, Texas and New York, with 55% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 38 | #713 | 1.1× |
| Texas | 18 | #1,204 | 1.1× |
| New York | 12 | #1,039 | 1.3× |
| Virginia | 11 | #656 | 1.8× |
| Ohio | 9 | #921 | 0.5× |
| Florida | 8 | #1,442 | 0.7× |
| Colorado | 8 | #665 | 0.5× |
| Washington | 7 | #869 | 1.0× |
| Minnesota | 7 | #697 | 0.8× |
| Illinois | 6 | #1,245 | 0.6× |
Where Osman is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Osman is most over-represented in Virginia: since 1917 it was given 1.8 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 Osman 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 4,802 babies since 1880, Osman is the most given (81% of them). In 2025 it was given to 181 of their 202 babies (90%), 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 Osman
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 Osman and names like it
- Compare Osman and OsminBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
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- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Osman since 1910.
- The top names of 2022The year the most babies were named Osman.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Osman alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with OMost given first.