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Osama: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 18 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,649 in 1999.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,649 in 1999; #5,341 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Osama in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#5,341 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1999, at #1,649.
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Osama: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 18 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,649 in 1999 · most boys in one year: 65 (1999).
In 2025, 18 US boys were named Osama, making it the 5,341st most common boys’ name of the year, up 1,807 places from #7,148 in 2024. That is 6 more than the 12 boys named Osama in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,649, reached in 1999. That year also had the most boys given the name: 65. For comparison, it was #6,224 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Osama in 52 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1968 with 6 babies. In all, 979 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 1990s, with 419 babies named Osama.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 127 US boys were named Osama; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 18. In 2025 that was about 1 in 94,893 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
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Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 18 | #5,341 |
| 2024 | — | — | 12 | #7,148 |
| 2023 | — | — | 18 | #5,406 |
| 2022 | — | — | 9 | #8,810 |
| 2021 | — | — | 12 | #6,989 |
| 2020 | — | — | 8 | #9,325 |
| 2019 | — | — | 15 | #6,029 |
| 2018 | — | — | 8 | #9,436 |
| 2017 | — | — | 13 | #6,570 |
| 2016 | — | — | 14 | #6,265 |
| 2015 | — | — | 14 | #6,224 |
| 2014 | — | — | 9 | #8,615 |
| 2013 | — | — | 11 | #7,411 |
| 2012 | — | — | 6 | #11,877 |
| 2011 | — | — | 6 | #11,883 |
| 2009 | — | — | 5 | #13,944 |
| 2007 | — | — | 7 | #10,598 |
| 2006 | — | — | 6 | #11,676 |
| 2004 | — | — | 5 | #12,722 |
| 2003 | — | — | 11 | #6,606 |
| 2002 | — | — | 11 | #6,405 |
| 2001 | — | — | 38 | #2,553 |
| 2000 | — | — | 54 | #1,939 |
| 1999 | — | — | 65 | #1,649 |
| 1998 | — | — | 47 | #2,035 |
| 1997 | — | — | 44 | #2,052 |
| 1996 | — | — | 48 | #1,896 |
| 1995 | — | — | 38 | #2,163 |
| 1994 | — | — | 36 | #2,247 |
| 1993 | — | — | 34 | #2,280 |
| 1992 | — | — | 36 | #2,159 |
| 1991 | — | — | 43 | #1,854 |
| 1990 | — | — | 28 | #2,475 |
| 1989 | — | — | 23 | #2,758 |
| 1988 | — | — | 26 | #2,342 |
| 1987 | — | — | 14 | #3,465 |
| 1986 | — | — | 16 | #3,093 |
| 1985 | — | — | 32 | #1,860 |
| 1984 | — | — | 18 | #2,676 |
| 1983 | — | — | 13 | #3,372 |
| 1982 | — | — | 13 | #3,438 |
| 1981 | — | — | 12 | #3,552 |
| 1980 | — | — | 14 | #3,206 |
| 1979 | — | — | 10 | #3,997 |
| 1978 | — | — | 17 | #2,637 |
| 1977 | — | — | 8 | #4,471 |
| 1976 | — | — | 6 | #5,424 |
| 1975 | — | — | 5 | #6,058 |
| 1974 | — | — | 5 | #5,781 |
| 1973 | — | — | 6 | #4,918 |
| 1972 | — | — | 6 | #4,819 |
| 1968 | — | — | 6 | #4,009 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).