Usman
Usman was given to 106 boys in 2025, #1,607 among boys’ names; 1,728 Americans have been recorded with it since 1979 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,700 Americans named Usman and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 15 years old and half are between 5 and 28.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Usman by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Usman mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Usman is “a male given name from Arabic.”
From Arabic عُثْمَان (ʕuṯmān).
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Usman?
#1,607 among boys’ names, 2025
Usman rose from #2,960 in 2015 to #1,607 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 20.9 to 62.1 per million.
106 babies in 2025, the peak
Usman peaked in 2025, when 106 boys were given it, #1,607 among boys’ names. In 2024 it went to 97 boys.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 106 | #1,607 | 62.1 |
| 2024 | 97 | #1,721 | 56.3 |
| 2023 | 86 | #1,866 | 50.3 |
| 2022 | 97 | #1,736 | 55.6 |
| 2021 | 85 | #1,838 | 48.6 |
| 2020 | 55 | #2,413 | 31.9 |
| 2019 | 44 | #2,844 | 24.5 |
| 2018 | 50 | #2,575 | 27.5 |
| 2017 | 29 | #3,760 | 15.7 |
| 2016 | 46 | #2,683 | 24.2 |
Every recorded year (47)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 40 | #2,960 | 20.9 |
| 2014 | 36 | #3,148 | 18.7 |
| 2013 | 39 | #2,948 | 20.6 |
| 2012 | 29 | #3,703 | 15.3 |
| 2011 | 24 | #4,205 | 12.6 |
| 2010 | 43 | #2,821 | 22.4 |
| 2009 | 30 | #3,629 | 15.1 |
| 2008 | 41 | #2,941 | 20.1 |
| 2007 | 34 | #3,302 | 16.4 |
| 2006 | 41 | #2,827 | 19.9 |
| 2005 | 28 | #3,517 | 14.0 |
| 2004 | 25 | #3,724 | 12.6 |
| 2003 | 31 | #3,108 | 15.7 |
| 2002 | 46 | #2,286 | 23.7 |
| 2001 | 32 | #2,920 | 16.5 |
| 2000 | 30 | #2,983 | 15.3 |
| 1999 | 35 | #2,554 | 18.2 |
| 1998 | 39 | #2,308 | 20.4 |
| 1997 | 32 | #2,539 | 17.0 |
| 1996 | 32 | #2,475 | 16.9 |
| 1995 | 39 | #2,132 | 20.5 |
| 1994 | 37 | #2,211 | 19.2 |
| 1993 | 27 | #2,685 | 13.8 |
| 1992 | 25 | #2,822 | 12.5 |
| 1991 | 23 | #2,901 | 11.4 |
| 1990 | 24 | #2,769 | 11.7 |
| 1989 | 20 | #3,079 | 10.0 |
| 1988 | 15 | #3,510 | 7.8 |
| 1987 | 21 | #2,630 | 11.2 |
| 1986 | 23 | #2,422 | 12.5 |
| 1985 | 18 | #2,819 | 9.7 |
| 1984 | 21 | #2,435 | 11.6 |
| 1983 | 8 | #4,877 | 4.5 |
| 1982 | 18 | #2,700 | 9.9 |
| 1981 | 13 | #3,399 | 7.3 |
| 1980 | 8 | #4,914 | 4.5 |
| 1979 | 6 | #6,020 | 3.5 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Usman a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Usman has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 47 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Usman: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Usman, and how old are they?
1,700 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 1,728 Americans ever recorded as Usman. The median Usman alive today is 15 years old; half are between 5 and 28.
The 2020 Census counted 2,664 people named Usman (13 women and girls, 2,651 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,195 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.2 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 13 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 347 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 531 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 804 |
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 Usman born?
The states with the most babies named Usman are California, New York and Illinois, with 56% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 17 | #1,192 | 0.8× |
| New York | 13 | #986 | 3.6× |
| Illinois | 13 | #706 | 1.4× |
| Texas | 9 | #1,895 | 0.6× |
| Michigan | 8 | #897 | 0.3× |
| Virginia | 6 | #1,079 | 1.0× |
| Pennsylvania | 6 | #1,219 | 0.4× |
| Washington | 5 | #1,148 | 0.1× |
Where Usman is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Usman is most over-represented in New York: since 1979 it was given 3.6 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 Usman 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 2 names spelled alike, given to 1,816 babies since 1880, Usman is the most given (95% of them). In 2025 it was given to 106 of their 120 babies (88%), 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 Usman
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 Usman and names like it
- Compare Usman and UsmonBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sUsman peaked in 2025.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Usman since 1910.
- Arabic namesWiktionary’s origin for Usman: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2025The year the most babies were named Usman.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Usman alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with UMost given first.