Oscar
Oscar places #223 across the country in 2025, sitting where it has sat for years. The records carry it back to 1880, but its real era is now, 213,098 American children have carried it so far.
What Oscar carries
Oscar · Celtic
“bounding warrior, 251”
Source: Charlotte M. Yonge, History of Christian Names (1884), see our sources.
Oscar’s free Name Kit
Five printables for Oscar, drawn in your browser at print size the moment you ask: a name print for the wall, a nursery sign, a tracing sheet, a shortlist sheet, and twelve sibling names with the reason for each. Letter size, 300 dpi, in the site’s own hand.
- Name print Meaning, origin and the popularity curve on one sheet, ready for a frame.
- Nursery sign The name big and bright, for a door, a shelf or the top of a dresser.
- Tracing sheet The name in dotted letters, with room to go over it again and again.
- Shortlist sheet A page for weighing names side by side: initials, nicknames, how it sounds with yours.
- Sibling names sheet Twelve names that go with this one, each with the reason, from the sibling matcher.
Name print
Meaning, origin and the popularity curve on one sheet, ready for a frame.
Nursery sign
The name big and bright, for a door, a shelf or the top of a dresser.
Tracing sheet
The name in dotted letters, with room to go over it again and again.
Shortlist sheet
A page for weighing names side by side: initials, nicknames, how it sounds with yours.
Sibling names sheet
Twelve names that go with this one, each with the reason, from the sibling matcher.
Print on plain letter paper or heavier card; the sign and the print look best on matte stock.
Oscar since 1880
Oscar peaked in 2006 at #118; #223 in 2025.
United States national data, Social Security Administration, through 2025, how we use it.
Where Oscar is most common
The state that gives Oscar most often, per boys born there, is Vermont (0.58% in 2025); District of Columbia and New Mexico are close behind.
Share of the state's recorded names for that sex, from the Social Security Administration's state file; a name is listed in a state only when five or more babies received it there that year.
Names that sit near Oscar
Same shelf of the library: origin, era and shape, scored deterministically.
Owen
#31 in 2025 · Celtic
Connor
#166 in 2025 · Celtic
Evan
#153 in 2025 · Celtic
Finn
#206 in 2025 · Celtic
Kevin
#221 in 2025 · Celtic
Ronan
#247 in 2025 · Celtic
Rory
#199 in 2025 · Celtic
Harvey
#251 in 2025 · Celtic
Browse: names starting with O · Celtic names · all names
About Oscar
Where does Oscar rank right now?
Oscar places #223 across the country in 2025, sitting where it has sat for years. Every point on the chart is the SSA's own count, back to 1880.
Does Oscar have a meaning on record?
In our cited reference the recorded gloss is “bounding warrior, 251”, of Celtic origin (Charlotte M. Yonge, History of Christian Names (1884)).
Is there a sibling name for Oscar?
By our fixed recipe the closest are Owen, Connor and Evan, scored on origin, era, shape and how common they are. The sibling matcher runs the same recipe against the names already in your house.
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