Oseias is a rare spelling. It is summarised with Ozias, which shares its sound and spelling pattern.
Meaning not yet researched.
Oseias: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 40 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,454 in 2017.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,454 in 2017; #3,072 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Oseias in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#3,072 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2017, at #1,454.
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Oseias: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 40 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,454 in 2017 · most boys in one year: 118 (2017).
In 2025, 40 US boys were named Oseias, making it the 3,072nd most common boys’ name of the year, up 130 places from #3,202 in 2024. That is 2 more than the 38 boys named Oseias in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,454, reached in 2017. That year also had the most boys given the name: 118. For comparison, it was unranked (under five boys) in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Oseias in 10 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 2016 with 10 babies. In all, 333 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 178 babies named Oseias.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 333 US boys were named Oseias; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 118. In 2025 that was about 1 in 42,702 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Ozias (2,066 babies since 1880).
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Oseias in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
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).