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Usman

#1,607 in 2025Boys' name

From Arabic عُثْمَان; literal meaning unconfirmed

Usman has been given to 1,728 babies in the U.S. since 1979. In 2025 it ranked #1,607 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 106 recorded.

Babies named Usman, 2025

1 in 31,300

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Usman: meaning, origin, and history

From Arabic عُثْمَان; literal meaning unconfirmed

Arabic

What Usman means

Usman is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Usman is used in English, Indonesian, Maguindanao, Malay, Tagalog and Tausug. Its origins include Arabic.

Usman comes through Arabic عُثْمَان.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Maguindanao, Usman is pronounced /ʔusˈman/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,728 boys were recorded with the name Usman between 1979 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 106 in 2025; its best national rank was #1,607 in 2025.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #2,413 in 2020 to #1,607 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #2,960 in 2015 to #1,607 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.

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How common is Usman?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 31,300
106 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 16,100
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#1,607
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
21,679 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Usman 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 5002%

Put another way: gather 21,679 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Usman. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Usmans were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Usman was born before 2010 — so the typical Usman is around 15 today.

Median birth year
2010
About 15 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
30.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
70.3%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
1,728
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2020s — 30.4% of all recorded uses (526).

Is Usman 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
+114
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+806
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+1,353
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
2.65×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
100.0%
Peak was 2025 (106)
Years since peak
Peaking now
At its all-time high
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
26.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,607
2025

Spellings of Usman

Usman is not the most common spelling — Sean is, with 70.3% against Usman's 0.29%.

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 Usman is used

Across 2016–2025, Usman was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in 6,667 boys, against 1 in 16,573 across all states with data. It was least common in Washington (1 in 100,000).

115 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New York1 in 6,667
  2. 2Illinois1 in 8,333
  3. 3Virginia1 in 8,333
  4. 4California1 in 16,667
  5. 5Pennsylvania1 in 20,000
  6. 6Texas1 in 25,000
  7. 7Michigan1 in 33,333
  8. 8New Jersey1 in 100,000

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.

Usman around the world

Where Usman 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
    #436
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    1982–2012
    #669
    in 2012
  • Ireland
    2009–2025
    #829
    in 2025
  • France
    1985–2025
    #1,555
    in 2025
  • Norway
    1880–2003
    #421
    in 2003
  • Canada
    1991–2024
    #607
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1999–2008
    #726
    in 2008

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

Usman by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#1,607
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 806
Best rank ever
#1,607
2025
Peak year
2025
106 that year
First recorded
1979
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
1,728
Count in 2025
106

Names similar to Usman

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

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Sibling names for Usman

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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