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Othman

#3,426 in 2025Boys' name

Alternate transcription of Uthman

Othman has been given to 536 babies in the U.S. since 1977. In 2025 it ranked #3,426 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2022, with 46 recorded.

Babies named Othman, 2025

1 in 97,500

Othman over time, 1880–2025

Boys
020406018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Othman: meaning, origin, and history

Alternate transcription of Uthman

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Othman means

Othman is a alternate transcription of Uthman.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Othman → Uthman. The family’s meaning is “baby bustard”, recorded in the naming reference for Uthman.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Uthman.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 536 boys were recorded with the name Othman between 1977 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 46 in 2022; its best national rank was #2,817 in 2022.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #4,235 in 2020 to #3,426 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #6,973 in 2015 to #3,426 in 2025.

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.

How common is Othman?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 97,500
34 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 50,200
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#3,426
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
67,586 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Othman 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 67,586 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Othman. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Othmans were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Othman was born before 2016 — so the typical Othman is around 9 today.

Median birth year
2016
About 9 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
36.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
83.8%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
536
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Choose a decade

2020s — 36.4% of all recorded uses (195).

Is Othman 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
+618
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+809
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+3,547
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
2.83×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
73.9%
Peak was 2022 (46)
Years since peak
3
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
30.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,817
2022

Spellings of Othman

Othman is not the most common spelling — Ethan is, with 96.8% against Othman's 0.11%.

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 Othman is used

Across 1910–2025, Othman was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 1,097,815 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2Michigan1 in —
  3. 3New 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. Othman has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Othman around the world

Where Othman 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
    #2,440
    in 2025
  • France
    1971–2025
    #671
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1993–2024
    #1,614
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    2008–2008
    #726
    in 2008

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

Othman by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#3,426
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 809
Best rank ever
#2,817
2022
Peak year
2022
46 that year
First recorded
1977
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
536
Count in 2025
34

Names similar to Othman

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

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Sibling names for Othman

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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