Osmar
Masculine · “god-fame”
Osmar is god-fame in Germanic — os, a heathen god, and mar, famous — and the os element survived Christianisation intact.
How old is the name Osmar?
Osmar first appears in US birth records in 1973 — 52 years ago. The typical Osmar alive today was born around 2009, making them about 16 years old. About 2,300 people named Osmar are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Osmar most popular?
Osmar peaked in 2008, reaching #1303 nationally. Today it ranks #2332, 1,029 places below that high. See the whole 2008 chart.
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Where it comes from
From os mar to Osmar
The story of Osmar
Os named the old Germanic gods and opens Oswald, Osborn, Osmond and Osmar; Christian Anglo-Saxons went on using it for centuries, which says something about how conversion actually worked. Osmar is used in German and Spanish-speaking naming and appears in American records in current use.
Meaning
god-fame, divinely famous
From the Germanic os, 'god' — the same element as in the Norse Æsir — and mar or maer, 'famous'. The Old English Osmaer and German Osmar carry it. Anglo-Saxon Christians kept using os long after conversion. The elements are documented.
How the name formed
- os mar
- Osmar
Related forms: Osmar · Osmar · Osmer
Pronouncing Osmar
OZ-mar
Two syllables, stress on the first. Spanish says os-MAR with the stress at the end.
Nicknames for Osmar
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1973
- Most boys named
- 2008133 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1303reached in 2008
- Change vs 2024
- −3.3%59 in 2025, from 61
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Osmar in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Osmar in German — same name
- Osmar in Spanish — same name
- Osmer in English — spelling variant
Strongest US states over the last decade: California, Texas, Arizona.
Osmars among us
people named Osmar are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 boy in 28,950 born in 2025 was named Osmar
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Edrick test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Osmar's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Edrick climbed just as high around 1975, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Edrick's path sketches the road Osmar is walking now.
Osmar sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Where Osmar is headed
Osmar should hold steady through 2030 — the curve is flat, and flat curves are the most predictable kind.
Medium confidence — fitted on official counts through 2025.
A damped-trend projection of the official birth data — a sketch of momentum, not a promise. Every name's forecast, ranked.
Osmar beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Osmar in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US boys given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- That Christian Anglo-Saxons kept a heathen god-element is a first-rate fact.
- The god-fame meaning is transparent and strong.
- Two clean syllables with no pronunciation risk.
- German and Spanish stress it differently.
- Osmar and Oscar are close enough to confuse.
- It reads as period-coded and Continental.
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Masculine · #2332 in the U.S.
Frequently asked
- How many Osmars are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 2,300 people named Osmar are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Osmar in 2025?
- Osmar ranks #2332 among US boy names in 2025, with 59 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Osmar?
- About 1 in every 28,950 US boys born in 2025 was named Osmar — 59 in all.
- Will my child share the name Osmar with classmates?
- Osmar will almost certainly be the only one in school.
Ranked beside Osmar
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