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Osmond

#6,709 in 2025Boys' name

A god + protection, hand

Osmond has been given to 470 babies in the U.S. since 1912. In 2025 it ranked #6,709 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2022, with 19 recorded.

Babies named Osmond, 2025

1 in 255,000

Osmond over time, 1880–2025

Boys
0510152018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Osmond: meaning, origin, and history

A god + protection, hand

Germanic languages

What Osmond means

Osmond means “a god + protection, hand”, associated with áss and mund.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

Old Norse Ásmundr, from áss (“a god”) + mund (“protection, hand”). Later merged with a Norman French Osmond, Osmont, Omont from the same Old Norse root.

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

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Origin, language, and formation

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

Osmond comes through Old Norse Ásmundr.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 470 boys were recorded with the name Osmond between 1912 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 19 in 2022; its best national rank was #1,506 in 1912.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #8,549 in 2020 to #6,709 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #7,400 in 2015 to #6,709 in 2025.

How common is Osmond?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 255,000
13 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 131,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#6,709
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
176,762 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Osmond 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 176,762 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Osmond. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Osmonds were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Osmond was born before 1988 — so the typical Osmond is around 37 today.

Median birth year
1988
About 37 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
17.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
41.7%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
316
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2020s — 17.2% of all recorded uses (81).

Is Osmond 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
+8
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+1,840
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+691
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.18×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
68.4%
Peak was 2022 (19)
Years since peak
3
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
28.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,506
1912

Spellings of Osmond

Osmond is not the most common spelling — Desmond is, with 46.1% against Osmond's 0.54%.

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 Osmond is used

Across 1910–2025, Osmond was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 3,075,654 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2New York1 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. Osmond has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Osmond around the world

Where Osmond 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
    2021–2025
    #5,137
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2018–2019
    #2,943
    in 2019
  • South Australia
    1976–1976
    #651
    in 1976

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Osmond by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#6,709
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 1,840
Best rank ever
#1,506
1912
Peak year
2022
19 that year
First recorded
1912
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
470
Count in 2025
13

Names similar to Osmond

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

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Sibling names for Osmond

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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