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Osman

#1,157 in 2025Boys' name

Multiple documented origins; meaning depends on tradition

Osman has been given to 3,893 babies in the U.S. since 1917. In 2025 it ranked #1,157 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2022, with 231 recorded.

Babies named Osman, 2025

1 in 18,300

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Osman: meaning, origin, and history

Multiple documented origins; meaning depends on tradition

Germanic languages, Arabic, Ottoman Turkish and Iranian Persian

What Osman means

Osman has more than one naming route in the cited origin entries: “a god + protection, hand”.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

Inherited from Middle English, from Old Norse Ásmundr, from áss (“a god”) + mund (“protection, hand”).

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

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Origin, language, and formation

Osman is used in English, Albanian, Azerbaijani, French, Serbo-Croatian and Turkish. Its origins include Germanic languages, Arabic, Ottoman Turkish and Iranian Persian.

Osman comes through Old Norse Ásmundr.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Osmond, Uthman, Cismaan, عثمان and Usman.

Pronunciation and spelling

In English, Osman is pronounced /ˈɒzmən/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 3,893 boys were recorded with the name Osman between 1917 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 231 in 2022; its best national rank was #977 in 2022.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #1,162 in 2020 to #1,157 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #1,623 in 2015 to #1,157 in 2025.

How common is Osman?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 18,300
181 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 9,440
0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#1,157
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
12,697 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Osman 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 5003%

Put another way: gather 12,697 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Osman. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Osmans were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Osman was born before 2013 — so the typical Osman is around 12 today.

Median birth year
2013
About 12 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
31.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
77.5%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
3,882
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2020s — 31.9% of all recorded uses (1,242).

Is Osman 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
−128
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+5
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+466
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.83×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
78.4%
Peak was 2022 (231)
Years since peak
3
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
18.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#977
2022

Spellings of Osman

Osman is not the most common spelling — Sean is, with 35.7% against Osman's 0.33%.

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 Osman is used

Across 2016–2025, Osman was most concentrated in Virginia — about 1 in 3,846 boys, against 1 in 9,189 across all states with data. It was least common in Wisconsin (1 in 50,000).

226 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Virginia1 in 3,846
  2. 2Washington1 in 5,882
  3. 3New York1 in 6,667
  4. 4Maryland1 in 7,143
  5. 5California1 in 7,692
  6. 6Minnesota1 in 7,692
  7. 7Illinois1 in 8,333
  8. 8Ohio1 in 8,333

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.

Osman around the world

Where Osman 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
    1996–2025
    #474
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    1981–2025
    #762
    in 2025
  • Ireland
    2021–2025
    #829
    in 2025
  • France
    1912–2025
    #755
    in 2025
  • Norway
    1880–2025
    #448
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1991–2024
    #585
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1956–2013
    #754
    in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Norway, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, SSB, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Notable people named Osman

People whose public names include Osman, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Osman in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Osman. Linked forms have their own page here.

UsmanOsmanyOthmanUthmanOtmaneAthumanOthmaneAthumani

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Osman by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#1,157
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 5
Best rank ever
#977
2022
Peak year
2022
231 that year
First recorded
1917
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
3,893
Count in 2025
181

Names similar to Osman

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

OsmarArmanAymanOsminLymanUsmanSalmanAmanWymanTillmanOsmondHymanImanGermanFermanRahmanKalmanLuqmanNamanHarmanColmanBowmanCaymanTruman

Names with a curve like Osman

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Osman, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

GianGenesisMassimoIsaelNatanaelTzviDovidEitanRenzoMeirOzielJosias

Sibling names for Osman

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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