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Osburn

About 51 American babies have been named Osburn since 1916, most of them around 1916. It has not appeared in the national data since 1939. About 2 Osburns are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 86.

Popularity, 1880–2025

Births per year, 1880 to 2025 0 3 5 8 10 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

boys named Osburn

By the numbers

Total US births
51
Estimated living today
2
Median age today
86
Peak year
1916
Best rank
2,543rd
Rank in 2025
unranked
First recorded
1916

How old the living Osburns are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 3 5 8 10 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 51 babies given the name since 1916, about 2 are alive — 4 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1939 and half after.

An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.

Names of 1916

The most popular boys’ names the year Osburn peaked:

All the names of 1916

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Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.

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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.