Oz is a rare spelling. It is summarised with Ozzy, which shares its sound and spelling pattern.
Meaning not yet researched.
Oz: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 33 in 2025. Its best rank was #2,793 in 2019.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #2,793 in 2019; #3,490 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Oz in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#3,490 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2019, at #2,793.
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Oz: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 33 boys in 2025. Peak: #2,793 in 2019 · most boys in one year: 45 (2019).
In 2025, 33 US boys were named Oz, making it the 3,490th most common boys’ name of the year, down 455 places from #3,035 in 2024. That is 8 fewer than the 41 boys named Oz in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #2,793, reached in 2019. That year also had the most boys given the name: 45. For comparison, it was #4,258 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Oz in 28 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1998 with 6 babies. In all, 677 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 289 babies named Oz.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 363 US boys were named Oz; the busiest of those years was 2019, with 45. In 2025 that was about 1 in 51,760 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Ozzy (4,534 babies since 1880) and Ozzie (4,177 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).
No nicknames listed for Oz 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.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 33 | #3,490 |
| 2024 | — | — | 41 | #3,035 |
| 2023 | — | — | 40 | #3,102 |
| 2022 | — | — | 35 | #3,393 |
| 2021 | — | — | 37 | #3,228 |
| 2020 | — | — | 34 | #3,323 |
| 2019 | — | — | 45 | #2,793 |
| 2018 | — | — | 39 | #3,039 |
| 2017 | — | — | 31 | #3,566 |
| 2016 | — | — | 28 | #3,862 |
| 2015 | — | — | 24 | #4,258 |
| 2014 | — | — | 28 | #3,756 |
| 2013 | — | — | 23 | #4,277 |
| 2012 | — | — | 21 | #4,637 |
| 2011 | — | — | 23 | #4,318 |
| 2010 | — | — | 27 | #3,871 |
| 2009 | — | — | 21 | #4,704 |
| 2008 | — | — | 23 | #4,356 |
| 2007 | — | — | 18 | #5,154 |
| 2006 | — | — | 19 | #4,814 |
| 2005 | — | — | 10 | #7,512 |
| 2004 | — | — | 11 | #6,861 |
| 2003 | — | — | 13 | #5,797 |
| 2002 | — | — | 19 | #4,289 |
| 2001 | — | — | 12 | #5,930 |
| 2000 | — | — | 11 | #6,206 |
| 1999 | — | — | 5 | #11,150 |
| 1998 | — | — | 6 | #9,321 |
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).