Oz — #3074 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Oz

The Social Security Administration has registered 643 babies named Oz between 1998 and 2024, spanning 27 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Oz currently holds the #3074 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2019, when 45 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Oz performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 289 births during that ten-year window. Across the 4 decades of recorded activity, Oz shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 110 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by New York and Texas. In total, SSA state-level files list Oz in 3 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Oz 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 643 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.