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Oshin

#11,645 in 2025UnisexBoys' nameGirls' name

English equivalent of Ossian

Oshin has been given to 29 babies in the U.S. since 2023. In 2025 it ranked #11,645 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2024, with 7 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 62% boys, 38% girls all-time.

Babies named Oshin, 2025

1 in 553,000

Oshin over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Girls or boys — Oshin over time

In 2025, Oshin went to 0% girls and 100% boys.

20192025

A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.

Oshin: meaning, origin, and history

English equivalent of Ossian

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Oshin means

Oshin is a English equivalent of Ossian.

Origin, language, and formation

Oshin is used in Manx.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Ossian and Oisín.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 18 boys were recorded with the name Oshin between 2023 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 7 in 2024; its best national rank was #10,641 in 2024.

In the United States, 11 girls were recorded with the name Oshin between 2019 and 2022. Its highest annual count was 6 in 2019; its best national rank was #15,130 in 2019.

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 Oshin?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 553,000
6 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 285,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#11,645
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
382,984 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Oshin 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 382,984 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Oshin. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Oshins were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Oshin was born before 2024 — so the typical Oshin is around 1 today.

Median birth year
2024
About 1 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
100.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
18
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2020s — 100.0% of all recorded uses (18).

Is Oshin 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
−1,004
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
85.7%
Peak was 2024 (7)
Years since peak
1
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
27.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#10,641
2024

Spellings of Oshin

Oshin is not the most common spelling — Odin is, with 18.2% against Oshin's 0.02%.

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.

Oshin around the world

Where Oshin 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
    2021–2021
    #3,990
    in 2021

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

Oshin by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#11,645
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
New entry
Best rank ever
#10,641
2024
Peak year
2024
7 that year
First recorded
2023
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
18
Count in 2025
6

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#15,130
2019
Peak year
2019
6 that year
First recorded
2019
Last recorded
2022
All-time count
11
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Oshin

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

OshunOsheanOshanOshynOshaiZahinOshaneOshenOshawnOsherOshayeOshaeNahinOshuaKashinKrithinOshaunOshianEathinOshaVahinYushinJshinJahin

Sibling names for Oshin

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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