Osman
The boy's name Osman has been in the national records since 1917, with 3,893 births to its name. In 2025 it ranked 1,156th. About 3,800 Osmans are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 12.
Popularity, 1880–2025
boys named Osman
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 3,893
- Estimated living today
- 3,800
- Median age today
- 12
- Peak year
- 2022
- Best rank
- 975th
- Rank in 2025
- 1,156th
- First recorded
- 1917
How old the living Osmans are
born that year still alive today
Of the 3,893 babies given the name since 1917, about 3,800 are alive — 98 in every hundred. Roughly 2,400 of them are children and 13 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2013 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.
Where the name comes from
Origin Germanic languages
from áss (“a god”) + mund (“protection, hand”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Osmans
- Osman I (1258–1326)founder of the Ottoman Empire (died 1323/4)
- Osman II (1604–1622)16th Sultan of the Ottoman Empire
- Osman III (1699–1757)25th Sultan of the Ottoman Empire
- Osman Bukari (born 1998)Ghanaian association football player
- Osman Hamdi Bey (1842–1910)Ottoman statesman, academic and artist
- Osman Nuri Pasha (1832–1900)Ottoman general
- Ertuğrul Osman Osmanoğlu (1912–2009)Ottoman noble
- Osman Kavala (born 1957)Turkish businessperson and philanthropist
People named Osman with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Osman is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Osman is most concentrated in Virginia (3.4×), California (2.4×), Texas (2.4×), Washington (2.3×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2022
The most popular boys’ names the year Osman peaked:
Osman elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| France boys | Osman | 1,925 | 663rd |
| England and Wales boys | Osman | 1,264 | 452nd |
| Norway boys | Osman | 579 | 266th |
| Belgium boys | Osman | 464 | 353rd |
| Switzerland boys | Osman | 127 | 660th |
| Scotland boys | Osman | 23 | 309th |
| Poland boys | Osman | 13 birth registrations | 614th |
| Ireland boys | Osman | 6 | 755th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Osman: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German boys | Switzerland | Osman | 101 | 0.008% | 583rd |
| French boys | Switzerland | Osman | 24 | 0.006% | 417th |
| Italian boys | Switzerland | Osman | 2 | 0.003% | 184th |
Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.
By canton, Osman is most concentrated in Zurich, where 0.01% of children were given it – 35 of them.
Osman: rank by region
In 2025, Osman was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flanders | Osman | 355 | 16 |
In 2025, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Osman appears in the lists for Province of Antwerp (290th).
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Osman by city
| City | Years | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Berlin boys | 2017–2023 | 43 | 291st |
One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.
Osman among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland boys | Osman | 162 | 363 |
| Finland girls | Osman | — | 144 |
A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Where Osman lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 264 men called Osman were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.
Men: the provinces where it is densest
| Province | Spelling | People | Per thousand | Place there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Melilla | Osman | 9 | 0.206 | 522 |
| Girona | Osman | 14 | 0.034 | 1,683 |
| Barcelona | Osman | 52 | 0.018 | 2,575 |
| Palmas, Las | Osman | 10 | 0.017 | 3,824 |
| Santa Cruz de Tenerife | Osman | 8 | 0.015 | 4,257 |
| Málaga | Osman | 13 | 0.015 | 2,854 |
Listed in 12 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 40 it is either held by fewer than 5 people – the point below which the source withholds a name – or it fell past the 5,000 names the source will print for one province. Neither means nobody there is called it. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.
Related names
Osman against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
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.