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Ossie

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Diminutive of Oscar

Ossie has been given to 4,594 babies in the U.S. since 1880. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1919, with 96 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 63% girls, 37% boys all-time.

Babies named Ossie, 1980

1 in 574,000

Ossie over time, 1880–2025

GirlsBoys
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 — Ossie over time

In 2014, Ossie went to 0% girls and 100% boys.

18802014

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.

Ossie: meaning, origin, and history

Diminutive of Oscar

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Ossie means

Ossie is a diminutive of Oscar.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Ossie is used in English.

Another recorded pronunciation is /ˈɔs.i/ for Ossie.

Meaning behind the documented name family

Ossie is a diminutive of Oscar. Oscar has more than one origin or interpretation.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Oscar.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,917 girls were recorded with the name Ossie between 1880 and 1980. Its highest annual count was 96 in 1919; its best national rank was #553 in 1887.

In the United States, 1,677 boys were recorded with the name Ossie between 1880 and 2014. Its highest annual count was 42 in 1919; its best national rank was #672 in 1900.

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 Ossie?

Ossie had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1980, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1980
1 in 574,000
6 of 3,444,198 births
Among girls only
1 in 277,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 1980
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
397,891 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Ossie sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 1980 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 397,891 children born in 1980 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Ossie. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Ossies were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Ossie was born before 1924 — so the typical Ossie is around 101 today.

Median birth year
1924
About 101 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
25.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
4.8%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
269
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1920s — 25.0% of all recorded uses (730).

Is Ossie 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
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1919 (96)
Years since peak
106
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
38.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#553
1887

Spellings of Ossie

Ossie is not the most common spelling — Elsie is, with 18.5% against Ossie's 0.28%.

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 Ossie is used — girls

Across 1910–2025, Ossie was most concentrated in Georgia — about 1 in 6,667 girls, against 1 in 33,119 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

015 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Georgia1 in 6,667
  2. 2Mississippi1 in 12,500
  3. 3Alabama1 in 20,000
  4. 4North Carolina1 in 25,000
  5. 5South Carolina1 in 50,000
  6. 6Arkansas1 in 100,000
  7. 7Florida1 in 100,000
  8. 8Louisiana1 in 100,000

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls 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. Ossie has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Where Ossie is used — boys

Across 1910–2025, Ossie was most concentrated in Georgia — about 1 in 50,000 boys, against 1 in 196,135 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

02 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Georgia1 in 50,000
  2. 2Alabama1 in 100,000
  3. 3Arkansas1 in 100,000
  4. 4Mississippi1 in 100,000
  5. 5Kentucky1 in —
  6. 6North Carolina1 in —
  7. 7South Carolina1 in —
  8. 8Tennessee1 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. Ossie has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Ossie around the world

Where Ossie 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
    2005–2021
    #4,789
    in 2021
  • South Australia
    1951–1992
    #538
    in 1992

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

Notable people named Ossie

People whose public names include Ossie, 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.

Ossie in other languages

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

OzzyOzzieOssiOssee

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

Ossie by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#553
1887
Peak year
1919
96 that year
First recorded
1880
Last recorded
1980
All-time count
2,917
Count in 2025
Under 5

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#672
1900
Peak year
1919
42 that year
First recorded
1880
Last recorded
2014
All-time count
1,677
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Ossie

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

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Names with a curve like Ossie

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

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Sibling names for Ossie

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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