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Uthman

#4,239 in 2025Boys' name

Baby bustard

Uthman has been given to 348 babies in the U.S. since 1974. In 2025 it ranked #4,239 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2022, with 25 recorded.

Babies named Uthman, 2025

1 in 133,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Uthman: meaning, origin, and history

Baby bustard

Arabic

What Uthman means

Uthman means “baby bustard”.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

Borrowed from Arabic عُثْمَان (ʕuṯmān). Doublet of Ottoman and Osman.

Excerpt from Wiktionary: Uthman (English) · CC BY-SA 4.0

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Origin, language, and formation

Uthman is used in English and Albanian. Its origins include Arabic.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Osman.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 348 boys were recorded with the name Uthman between 1974 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 25 in 2022; its best national rank was #4,239 in 2025.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #4,526 in 2020 to #4,239 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #6,645 in 2015 to #4,239 in 2025.

How common is Uthman?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 133,000
25 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 68,300
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#4,239
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
91,917 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Uthman 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 91,917 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Uthman. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Uthmans were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Uthman was born before 2018 — so the typical Uthman is around 7 today.

Median birth year
2018
About 7 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
38.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
90.8%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
348
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2020s — 38.5% of all recorded uses (134).

Is Uthman 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
+178
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+287
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+2,406
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.92×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
100.0%
Peak was 2022 (25)
Years since peak
3
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
27.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#4,239
2025

Spellings of Uthman

Uthman is not the most common spelling — Ethan is, with 98.6% against Uthman's 0.07%.

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 Uthman is used

Across 1910–2025, Uthman was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 1,696,623 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. Uthman has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Uthman around the world

Where Uthman 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
    #1,035
    in 2025
  • Ireland
    2005–2005
    #518
    in 2005
  • France
    2018–2024
    #5,895
    in 2024
  • Canada
    2015–2024
    #2,134
    in 2024

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Uthman by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#4,239
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 287
Best rank ever
#4,239
2025
Peak year
2022
25 that year
First recorded
1974
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
348
Count in 2025
25

Names similar to Uthman

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

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Sibling names for Uthman

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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