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Ousmane

#3,634 in 2025Boys' name

Form of Uthman

Ousmane has been given to 712 babies in the U.S. since 1993. In 2025 it ranked #3,634 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2023, with 46 recorded.

Babies named Ousmane, 2025

1 in 107,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Ousmane: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Uthman

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Ousmane means

Ousmane is a form of Uthman.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Ousmane → 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, 712 boys were recorded with the name Ousmane between 1993 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 46 in 2023; its best national rank was #2,789 in 2023.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #3,888 in 2020 to #3,634 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #3,846 in 2015 to #3,634 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 Ousmane?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 107,000
31 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 55,100
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#3,634
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
74,127 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Ousmane 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 74,127 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Ousmane. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Ousmanes were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Ousmane was born before 2013 — so the typical Ousmane is around 12 today.

Median birth year
2013
About 12 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
34.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
89.3%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
712
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Choose a decade

2010s — 34.8% of all recorded uses (248).

Is Ousmane 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
−552
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+254
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+212
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.11×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
67.4%
Peak was 2023 (46)
Years since peak
2
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
26.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,789
2023

Spellings of Ousmane

Ousmane is not the most common spelling — Osman is, with 61.5% against Ousmane's 11.2%.

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 Ousmane is used

Across 1910–2025, Ousmane was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in 50,000 boys, against 1 in 99,994 across all states with data. It was least common in Pennsylvania (1 in —).

02 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New York1 in 50,000
  2. 2Ohio1 in —
  3. 3Pennsylvania1 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. Ousmane has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Ousmane around the world

Where Ousmane 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
    2009–2025
    #4,275
    in 2025
  • France
    1962–2025
    #217
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2000–2024
    #1,698
    in 2024

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Ousmane by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#3,634
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 254
Best rank ever
#2,789
2023
Peak year
2023
46 that year
First recorded
1993
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
712
Count in 2025
31

Names similar to Ousmane

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

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Sibling names for Ousmane

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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