Meaning not yet researched.
Osman: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 181 in 2025. Its best rank was #977 in 2022.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #977 in 2022; #1,157 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Osman in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,157 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2022, at #977.
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Osman: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 181 boys in 2025. Peak: #977 in 2022 · most boys in one year: 231 (2022).
In 2025, 181 US boys were named Osman, making it the 1,157th most common boys’ name of the year, down 128 places from #1,029 in 2024. That is 36 fewer than the 217 boys named Osman in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #977, reached in 2022. That year also had the most boys given the name: 231. For comparison, it was #1,623 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Osman in 61 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1917 with 11 babies. In all, 3,893 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 1,242 babies named Osman.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,702 US boys were named Osman; the busiest of those years was 2022, with 231. In 2025 that was about 1 in 9,437 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Osman ranked highest in Virginia in 2025, at #656 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Usman (1,728 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Ousmane, Osmin and Othman are summarised on this page.
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.
Rare spellings summarised here: Ousmane (712), Osmin (549), Othman (536), Ousman (360), Uthman (348), Osmany (165), Usmon (88), Ozman (16), Usmaan (14), Osmon (5).
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 Osman in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 41 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Virginia | 11 | #656 | #1,100 |
| Colorado | 8 | #665 | — |
| Minnesota | 7 | #697 | #616 |
| California | 38 | #713 | #1,197 |
| Washington | 7 | #869 | #1,064 |
| Ohio | 9 | #921 | — |
| New York | 12 | #1,039 | — |
| Texas | 18 | #1,204 | #1,512 |
| Illinois | 6 | #1,245 | — |
| Florida | 8 | #1,442 | #1,884 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 181 | #1,157 |
| 2024 | — | — | 217 | #1,029 |
| 2023 | — | — | 223 | #991 |
| 2022 | — | — | 231 | #977 |
| 2021 | — | — | 224 | #985 |
| 2020 | — | — | 166 | #1,162 |
| 2019 | — | — | 144 | #1,293 |
| 2018 | — | — | 116 | #1,496 |
| 2017 | — | — | 114 | #1,485 |
| 2016 | — | — | 86 | #1,780 |
| 2015 | — | — | 99 | #1,623 |
| 2014 | — | — | 79 | #1,868 |
| 2013 | — | — | 69 | #2,006 |
| 2012 | — | — | 85 | #1,771 |
| 2011 | — | — | 58 | #2,256 |
| 2010 | — | — | 94 | #1,663 |
| 2009 | — | — | 118 | #1,431 |
| 2008 | — | — | 100 | #1,591 |
| 2007 | — | — | 107 | #1,493 |
| 2006 | — | — | 103 | #1,487 |
| 2005 | — | — | 84 | #1,629 |
| 2004 | — | — | 80 | #1,625 |
| 2003 | — | — | 78 | #1,626 |
| 2002 | — | — | 85 | #1,494 |
| 2001 | — | — | 75 | #1,598 |
| 2000 | — | — | 79 | #1,535 |
| 1999 | — | — | 63 | #1,684 |
| 1998 | — | — | 61 | #1,693 |
| 1997 | — | — | 58 | #1,702 |
| 1996 | — | — | 44 | #2,009 |
| 1995 | — | — | 34 | #2,332 |
| 1994 | — | — | 53 | #1,707 |
| 1993 | — | — | 37 | #2,152 |
| 1992 | — | — | 41 | #1,975 |
| 1991 | — | — | 43 | #1,855 |
| 1990 | — | — | 35 | #2,116 |
| 1989 | — | — | 39 | #1,911 |
| 1988 | — | — | 27 | #2,291 |
| 1987 | — | — | 20 | #2,693 |
| 1986 | — | — | 17 | #2,973 |
| 1985 | — | — | 20 | #2,571 |
| 1984 | — | — | 16 | #2,915 |
| 1983 | — | — | 19 | #2,549 |
| 1982 | — | — | 18 | #2,672 |
| 1981 | — | — | 17 | #2,750 |
| 1980 | — | — | 16 | #2,925 |
| 1979 | — | — | 14 | #3,119 |
| 1978 | — | — | 6 | #5,580 |
| 1977 | — | — | 9 | #4,073 |
| 1976 | — | — | 9 | #3,923 |
| 1975 | — | — | 9 | #3,858 |
| 1974 | — | — | 7 | #4,500 |
| 1973 | — | — | 5 | #5,662 |
| 1971 | — | — | 8 | #3,868 |
| 1970 | — | — | 10 | #3,218 |
| 1969 | — | — | 8 | #3,510 |
| 1968 | — | — | 6 | #4,010 |
| 1960 | — | — | 5 | #4,446 |
| 1959 | — | — | 8 | #3,216 |
| 1957 | — | — | 5 | #4,398 |
| 1917 | — | — | 11 | #2,527 |
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).