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Oscar
Pronounced /ˈɑs.kɚ/
Rank in 2024
#217
Born in 2024
1,656
Peak year
2006 · #118
Origin
Irish
1880 to 2024
SteadyIts story in numbers
- In 2024, 1,656 boys were named Oscar, about 1 in every 1,036.
- It peaked in 2006 with 3,601 babies, ranked #118.
- It appears in the very first year of records, 1880.
- 211,463 boys have been named Oscar since 1880.
Who else has this name
Babies named Oscar per 1,000 born in each generation, on one shared scale.
- 2.0Greatest1901–27
- 1.0Silent1928–45
- 0.6Boomers1946–64
- 0.7Gen X1965–80
- 1.1Millennials1981–96
- 1.6Gen Z1997–12
- 1.1Gen Alpha2013–24
Greatest: 33,617 babies, 2.01 per 1,000. Silent: 20,158 babies, 0.98 per 1,000. Boomers: 20,850 babies, 0.56 per 1,000. Gen X: 18,019 babies, 0.66 per 1,000. Millennials: 33,047 babies, 1.09 per 1,000. Gen Z: 49,887 babies, 1.59 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 23,728 babies, 1.09 per 1,000.
Meaning and origin
Exact origin uncertain. Resuscitated by James Mcpherson in The Works of Ossian (1765). Napoleon, an admirer of the Ossianic poems, chose it for his godson Oscar Bernadotte, who became a king of Sweden. The modern given name is a conflation of two unrelated names: first, Middle Irish Oscar (the name of Fionn Mac Cumhaill's grandson in Irish mythology), from Middle Irish os (“deer”) + cara (“friend”); and second, Old English Ōscār, Ōsgār (personal name, literally “spear of the gods/spear of God”), from Old English ōs (“god”) and gār (“spear”) (see Oswald).
- A male given name from Irish or Old English.
- Origin
- Irish
- Say it
- /ˈɑs.kɚ/
From Wiktionary’s entry for Oscar, CC BY-SA 4.0.