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Oso

#7,080 in 2025Boys' name

Diminutive of Osman

Oso has been given to 61 babies in the U.S. since 2018. In 2025 it ranked #7,080 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2023, with 16 recorded.

Babies named Oso, 2025

1 in 276,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Oso: meaning, origin, and history

Diminutive of Osman

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Oso means

Oso is a diminutive of Osman.

Origin, language, and formation

Oso is used in Albanian.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Osman.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 61 boys were recorded with the name Oso between 2018 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 16 in 2023; its best national rank was #5,852 in 2023.

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 Oso?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 276,000
12 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 142,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#7,080
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
191,493 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Oso 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 191,493 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Oso. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Osos were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Oso was born before 2023 — so the typical Oso is around 2 today.

Median birth year
2023
About 2 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
80.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
61
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2020s — 80.3% of all recorded uses (49).

Is Oso 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
+2,554
Places climbed
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
75.0%
Peak was 2023 (16)
Years since peak
2
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
49.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#5,852
2023

Where Oso is used

Across 1910–2025, Oso was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 3,486,540 across all states with data.

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 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. Oso has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Oso by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#7,080
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
New entry
Best rank ever
#5,852
2023
Peak year
2023
16 that year
First recorded
2018
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
61
Count in 2025
12

Names similar to Oso

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

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Sibling names for Oso

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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