Osten
Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Osten has been given to 187 babies in the U.S. since 1992. 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 2013, with 15 recorded.
Babies named Osten, 2024
1 in 478,000
Osten over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Osten?
Osten had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2024
- 1 in 478,000
- 7 of 3,342,801 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 246,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2024
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 331,009 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Osten sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2024 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 331,009 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Osten. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Ostens were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Osten was born before 2008 — so the typical Osten is around 17 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2000s
- 38.5% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 84.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 187
- People you could plausibly meet
2000s — 38.5% of all recorded uses (72).
Is Osten 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 2013 (15)
- Years since peak
- 12
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 28.1% average annual change
Spellings of Osten
Osten is not the most common spelling — Owen is, with 67.1% against Osten's 0.05%.
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.
Osten around the world
Where Osten 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 & Wales2012–2021#4,789in 2021
- Scotland2019–2019#701in 2019
- Canada2003–2003#1,899in 2003
- South Australia2003–2013#499in 2013
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Osten by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Osten
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Osten
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.