Meaning not yet researched.
Ozzy: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 548 in 2025. Its best rank was #549 in 2025.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Its highest rank in 146 years of records is this year’s. About 89% of babies named Ozzy in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#549 for US boys in 2025, its highest rank in 146 years of records.
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Ozzy: US boys and girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 548 boys in 2025. Peak: #549 in 2025 · most boys in one year: 548 (2025).
In 2025, 548 US boys were named Ozzy, making it the 549th most common boys’ name of the year, up 50 places from #599 in 2024. That is 72 more than the 476 boys named Ozzy in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #549, reached in this year, 2025. That year also had the most boys given the name: 548. For comparison, it was #2,013 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
In 2025, 70 US girls were named Ozzy, making it the 2,533rd most common girls’ name of the year, up 282 places from #2,815 in 2024. That is 10 more than the 60 girls named Ozzy in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #2,488, reached in 2023. That year also had the most girls given the name: 72. For comparison, it was unranked (under five girls) in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Ozzy in 42 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1982 with 9 babies. In all, 4,534 US babies have been given the name, 7.8% of them girls and 92% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 2,899 babies named Ozzy.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 2,987 US boys were named Ozzy; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 548. In 2025 that was about 1 in 3,117 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Ozzy ranked highest in Utah in 2025, at #219 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Ossie (4,594 babies since 1880), Ozzie (4,177 babies since 1880) and Ozie (2,168 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Oz and Ozzi 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: Oz (677), Ozzi (59).
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 Ozzy in the open dataset we use.
Ozzy is listed as a nickname for Oswald, Waldo.
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 16 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Utah | 24 | #219 | — |
| New Mexico | 7 | #299 | — |
| Arizona | 21 | #372 | — |
| Kansas | 10 | #377 | — |
| Washington | 20 | #378 | — |
| Iowa | 9 | #394 | — |
| Indiana | 18 | #405 | — |
| California | 82 | #406 | #1,149 |
| Colorado | 15 | #413 | — |
| Idaho | 6 | #421 | — |
| Kentucky | 11 | #446 | — |
| Missouri | 14 | #454 | — |
| Ohio | 23 | #465 | #1,176 |
| Nebraska | 5 | #487 | — |
| Wisconsin | 10 | #511 | — |
| Illinois | 19 | #527 | — |
| Connecticut | 5 | #553 | — |
| Nevada | 5 | #576 | — |
| Florida | 30 | #578 | — |
| Oregon | 6 | #579 | — |
| Tennessee | 13 | #581 | — |
| Michigan | 14 | #595 | — |
| Texas | 52 | #599 | #1,876 |
| Oklahoma | 7 | #601 | — |
| Massachusetts | 8 | #604 | — |
| Virginia | 12 | #614 | — |
| Pennsylvania | 15 | #624 | — |
| Louisiana | 7 | #649 | — |
| South Carolina | 7 | #654 | — |
| North Carolina | 12 | #756 | — |
| Maryland | 5 | #892 | — |
| Minnesota | 5 | #905 | — |
| New York | 12 | #1,041 | — |
| Georgia | 8 | #1,062 | — |
| New Jersey | 5 | #1,143 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 70 | #2,533 | 548 | #549 |
| 2024 | 60 | #2,815 | 476 | #599 |
| 2023 | 72 | #2,488 | 529 | #554 |
| 2022 | 60 | #2,851 | 453 | #619 |
| 2021 | 53 | #3,100 | 366 | #713 |
| 2020 | 19 | #6,269 | 193 | #1,049 |
| 2019 | 11 | #9,588 | 160 | #1,200 |
| 2018 | 9 | #11,217 | 112 | #1,525 |
| 2017 | — | — | 88 | #1,764 |
| 2016 | — | — | 62 | #2,199 |
| 2015 | — | — | 72 | #2,013 |
| 2014 | — | — | 57 | #2,313 |
| 2013 | — | — | 55 | #2,322 |
| 2012 | — | — | 54 | #2,376 |
| 2011 | — | — | 48 | #2,578 |
| 2010 | — | — | 61 | #2,183 |
| 2009 | — | — | 44 | #2,790 |
| 2008 | — | — | 63 | #2,154 |
| 2007 | — | — | 56 | #2,329 |
| 2006 | — | — | 39 | #2,917 |
| 2005 | — | — | 44 | #2,553 |
| 2004 | — | — | 47 | #2,408 |
| 2003 | — | — | 69 | #1,760 |
| 2002 | — | — | 94 | #1,405 |
| 2001 | — | — | 49 | #2,141 |
| 2000 | — | — | 39 | #2,463 |
| 1999 | — | — | 29 | #2,918 |
| 1998 | — | — | 42 | #2,186 |
| 1997 | — | — | 25 | #3,041 |
| 1996 | — | — | 20 | #3,517 |
| 1995 | — | — | 25 | #2,903 |
| 1994 | — | — | 19 | #3,559 |
| 1993 | — | — | 23 | #3,007 |
| 1992 | — | — | 20 | #3,307 |
| 1991 | — | — | 17 | #3,587 |
| 1990 | — | — | 13 | #4,346 |
| 1989 | — | — | 22 | #2,864 |
| 1988 | — | — | 12 | #4,098 |
| 1987 | — | — | 10 | #4,492 |
| 1986 | — | — | 8 | #5,206 |
| 1985 | — | — | 8 | #5,030 |
| 1982 | — | — | 9 | #4,493 |
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).