Ossie — unisex name

What the Data Says About Ossie

The Social Security Administration has registered 2,917 babies named Ossie between 1880 and 1980, spanning 101 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Ossie currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 1980. The name reached its historical peak in 1919, when 96 babies received it in a single year. Ossie is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 1,677 additional births since 1880.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Ossie performed strongest in the 1920s, accumulating 730 births during that ten-year window. Across the 10 decades of recorded activity, Ossie shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Georgia, which accounts for 669 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by North Carolina and Mississippi. In total, SSA state-level files list Ossie in 11 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Ossie 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 2,917 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.