Ozzy
Ozzy is given to both girls and boys: 70 girls and 548 boys were given it in 2025 (#2,533 among girls’ names and #549 among boys’, #984 among all names counting both); 4,534 Americans have been recorded with it since 1982 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 4,490 Americans named Ozzy and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 4 years old and half are between 2 and 11.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Ozzy by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Ozzy mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Ozzy is “a male given name.”
Also “a diminutive of the male given names Oswald and Oscar.”
Clippings + -y
/ˈɔzi/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Ozzy?
#549 among boys’ names, 2025
Ozzy rose from #2,013 in 2015 to #549 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 0.04 to 0.32 per 1,000.
618 babies in 2025, the peak
Ozzy peaked in 2025, when 618 babies were given it (548 boys, #549 among boys’ names). In 2024 it went to 476 boys.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 548 | #549 | 0.32 |
| 2024 | 476 | #599 | 0.28 |
| 2023 | 529 | #554 | 0.31 |
| 2022 | 453 | #619 | 0.26 |
| 2021 | 366 | #713 | 0.21 |
| 2020 | 193 | #1,049 | 0.11 |
| 2019 | 160 | #1,200 | 0.09 |
| 2018 | 112 | #1,525 | 0.06 |
| 2017 | 88 | #1,764 | 0.05 |
| 2016 | 62 | #2,199 | 0.03 |
Every recorded year (42)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 72 | #2,013 | 0.04 |
| 2014 | 57 | #2,311 | 0.03 |
| 2013 | 55 | #2,321 | 0.03 |
| 2012 | 54 | #2,375 | 0.03 |
| 2011 | 48 | #2,577 | 0.03 |
| 2010 | 61 | #2,182 | 0.03 |
| 2009 | 44 | #2,789 | 0.02 |
| 2008 | 63 | #2,153 | 0.03 |
| 2007 | 56 | #2,329 | 0.03 |
| 2006 | 39 | #2,916 | 0.02 |
| 2005 | 44 | #2,549 | 0.02 |
| 2004 | 47 | #2,404 | 0.02 |
| 2003 | 69 | #1,757 | 0.03 |
| 2002 | 94 | #1,402 | 0.05 |
| 2001 | 49 | #2,137 | 0.03 |
| 2000 | 39 | #2,459 | 0.02 |
| 1999 | 29 | #2,914 | 0.02 |
| 1998 | 42 | #2,183 | 0.02 |
| 1997 | 25 | #3,036 | 0.01 |
| 1996 | 20 | #3,511 | 0.01 |
| 1995 | 25 | #2,898 | 0.01 |
| 1994 | 19 | #3,553 | 0.01 |
| 1993 | 23 | #3,001 | 0.01 |
| 1992 | 20 | #3,301 | 0.01 |
| 1991 | 17 | #3,580 | 0.01 |
| 1990 | 13 | #4,340 | 0.01 |
| 1989 | 22 | #2,858 | 0.01 |
| 1988 | 12 | #4,093 | 0.01 |
| 1987 | 10 | #4,485 | 0.01 |
| 1986 | 8 | #5,201 | under 0.01 |
| 1985 | 8 | #5,025 | under 0.01 |
| 1982 | 9 | #4,491 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Ozzy a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 4,534 Americans recorded as Ozzy, 8% are girls and 92% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Ozzy: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Ozzy, and how old are they?
4,490 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 4,534 Americans ever recorded as Ozzy. The median Ozzy alive today is 4 years old; half are between 2 and 11.
The 2020 Census counted 1,758 people named Ozzy (53 women and girls, 1,705 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,669 born in the U.S. The Census count is 5% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 197 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 790 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 3,500 |
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 Ozzy born?
The states with the most babies named Ozzy are California, Texas and Florida, with 34% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 94 | #406 | 1.3× |
| Texas | 62 | #599 | 0.9× |
| Florida | 30 | #578 | 0.5× |
| Utah | 24 | #219 | 2.1× |
| Ohio | 23 | #465 | 0.9× |
| Arizona | 21 | #372 | 0.9× |
| Washington | 20 | #378 | 0.9× |
| Illinois | 19 | #527 | 0.5× |
| Indiana | 18 | #405 | 0.8× |
| Pennsylvania | 15 | #624 | 0.5× |
Where Ozzy is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Ozzy is most over-represented in Utah: since 1982 it was given 2.1 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 Ozzy 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 8,770 babies since 1880, Ozzy is the most given (52% of them). In 2025 it was given to 618 of their 799 babies (77%), 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 Ozzy
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 Ozzy and names like it
- Compare Ozzy and OzzieBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sOzzy peaked in 2025.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Ozzy since 1910.
- The top names of 2025The year the most babies were named Ozzy.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Ozzy alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with OMost given first.