Humanverse

Osmar vs Osmin

American parents have registered 2,304 Osmars since 1880, against 549 Osmins. Osmar is still ahead, with 59 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Osmar against Osmin, 1880 to 2025 0 40 80 120 160 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Osmar Osmin

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 50 years in which either name was published, Osmar for 46 years and Osmin for 4 years. The lead changed hands 4 times.

Side by side

  Osmar Osmin
Total US births 2,304549
Most in one year 13320
Babies in 2025 5912
Estimated living today 2,300540
Median age today 1618
Peak year 20082006
Best rank 1,303rd boys4,520th boys
Rank in 2025 2,332nd6,803rd
First recorded 19731983
Girls / boys 0 / 2,3040 / 549

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Osmins alive today are over 18; half the Osmars are over 16. That is 2 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

Compare something else

Related comparisons

Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Osmar and Osmin.