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Oseias

#3,071 in 2025Boys' name

Form of Hosea

Oseias has been given to 333 babies in the U.S. since 2016. In 2025 it ranked #3,071 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2017, with 118 recorded.

Babies named Oseias, 2025

1 in 82,900

Oseias over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Oseias: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Hosea

Hebrew

What Oseias means

Oseias is a form of Hosea.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Oseias → Hosea. The family’s meaning is “to save”, recorded in English with the source elements hoshía'.

Origin, language, and formation

Oseias is used in Portuguese. Its origins include Hebrew.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Hosea.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Portuguese, Oseias is pronounced /oˈzɛj.ɐs/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 333 boys were recorded with the name Oseias between 2016 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 118 in 2017; its best national rank was #1,454 in 2017.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #5,629 in 2020 to #3,071 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Oseias?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 82,900
40 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 42,700
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#3,071
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
57,449 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Oseias 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 57,449 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Oseias. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Oseiass were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Oseias was born before 2019 — so the typical Oseias is around 6 today.

Median birth year
2019
About 6 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
53.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
333
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 53.5% of all recorded uses (178).

Is Oseias 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
+129
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+2,558
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
33.9%
Peak was 2017 (118)
Years since peak
8
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
156.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,454
2017

Spellings of Oseias

Oseias is not the most common spelling — Isaias is, with 73.3% against Oseias's 1.3%.

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 Oseias is used

Across 2016–2025, Oseias was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 50,000 boys, against 1 in 57,061 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in 100,000).

12 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 50,000
  2. 2Colorado1 in 50,000
  3. 3Massachusetts1 in 50,000
  4. 4Texas1 in 50,000
  5. 5Florida1 in 100,000
  6. 6Georgia1 in 100,000
  7. 7New Jersey1 in 100,000
  8. 8New York1 in 100,000

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.

Oseias around the world

Where Oseias 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
    2017–2017
    #4,812
    in 2017

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

Oseias by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#3,071
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 2,558
Best rank ever
#1,454
2017
Peak year
2017
118 that year
First recorded
2016
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
333
Count in 2025
40

Names similar to Oseias

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

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Sibling names for Oseias

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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