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Osborne

#4,662 in 2025Boys' name

Possibly god + bear

Osborne has been given to 1,754 babies in the U.S. since 1880. In 2025 it ranked #4,662 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1915, with 47 recorded.

Babies named Osborne, 2025

1 in 151,000

Osborne over time, 1880–2025

Boys
020406018801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Osborne: meaning, origin, and history

Possibly god + bear

Germanic languages

What Osborne means

Osborne may mean “god + bear”, associated with áss and bjǫrn.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

From a medieval given name influenced by, or possibly derived from, Old Norse Ásbjǫrn, from áss (“god”) + bjǫrn (“bear”).

Excerpt from Wiktionary: Osborne (English) · CC BY-SA 4.0

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Origin, language, and formation

Osborne is used in English. Its origins include Germanic languages.

Osborne comes through Old Norse Ásbjǫrn and Old English Ōsbeorn.

Osborne is recorded as a surname transferred into given-name use.

Pronunciation and spelling

In English, Osborne is pronounced /ˈɒzbɔː(ɹ)n/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,754 boys were recorded with the name Osborne between 1880 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 47 in 1915; its best national rank was #699 in 1910.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #4,504 in 2020 to #4,662 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #7,889 in 2015 to #4,662 in 2025.

How common is Osborne?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 151,000
22 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 77,600
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#4,662
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
104,451 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Osborne sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 104,451 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Osborne. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Osbornes were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Osborne was born before 1936 — so the typical Osborne is around 89 today.

Median birth year
1936
About 89 years old
Biggest decade
1910s
17.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
13.3%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
627
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Choose a decade

1910s — 17.9% of all recorded uses (314).

Is Osborne rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
+1,443
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−158
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
+3,227
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
2.20×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
46.8%
Peak was 1915 (47)
Years since peak
110
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
34.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#699
1910

Spellings of Osborne

Osborne is the most-used spelling, taking 74.4% of the 2,357 babies given a near-identical spelling.

  • Osborne74.4%1,754
  • Osborn25.6%603

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Osborne is used

Across 1910–2025, Osborne was most concentrated in North Carolina — about 1 in 100,000 boys, against 1 in 499,231 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1North Carolina1 in 100,000
  2. 2California1 in —
  3. 3Georgia1 in —
  4. 4Maryland1 in —
  5. 5Mississippi1 in —
  6. 6Virginia1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Osborne has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Osborne around the world

Where Osborne ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    2016–2016
    #4,023
    in 2016

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0.

Osborne by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#4,662
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 158
Best rank ever
#699
1910
Peak year
1915
47 that year
First recorded
1880
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
1,754
Count in 2025
22

Names similar to Osborne

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Osborne

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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