Othman
Masculine
Othman is the Arabic name that gives Europe the word Ottoman — the third caliph carried it, and so did the founder of the empire that ran from the Balkans to the Gulf for six centuries.
How old is the name Othman?
Othman first appears in US birth records in 1977 — 48 years ago. The typical Othman is a kid of about 9 — this name's wave is very recent. About 500 people named Othman are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Othman most popular?
Othman peaked in 2022, reaching #2793 nationally. Today it ranks #3379, 586 places below that high. See the whole 2022 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Uthman to Othman
The story of Othman
Uthman ibn Affan was the third caliph and the one under whom the Qur'anic text was fixed in a single recension. Centuries later Osman, the Turkish form of the same name, founded the dynasty that Europe called Ottoman after him. The name is used across the Arab world, Turkey, the Balkans, West Africa and South Asia, in the spellings Uthman, Othman, Osman and Usman, all of them the same name.
Meaningnot established
Not established
The meaning is not established. The most-cited reading connects the name to a word for a young bustard or a snake, following an old Arabic habit of naming children after animals; that reading is traditional rather than proven, and no derivation is settled.
How the name formed
- Uthman
- Othman
Related forms: Uthman · Osman · Usman · Osman
Pronouncing Othman
OTH-man
Two syllables, first stressed. Arabic gives a th as in this and stresses the second syllable, uth-MAAN.
Nicknames for Othman
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
- 1977
- Most boys named
- 202246 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #2793reached in 2022
- Change vs 2024
- +25.9%34 in 2025, from 27
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.
Othman in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Uthman in Arabic — transliteration
- Osman in Turkish — same name
- Usman in Urdu — spelling variant
- Osman in Bosnian — same name
Strongest US states over the last decade: New York, Michigan, California.
Othmans among us
people named Othman are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 boy in 50,238 born in 2025 was named Othman
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 Piero test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Othman's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Piero climbed just as high around 1977, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Piero's path sketches the road Othman is walking now.
Othman 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 Othman is headed
Othman should hold steady through 2030 — the curve is flat, and flat curves are the most predictable kind. Its history is short or jumpy, though, so read this as a sketch rather than a promise.
Low 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.
Othman beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Othman in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US boys given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- A documented record from the earliest Islamic period to the present.
- Recognized across the Arab world, Turkey, the Balkans, Africa and South Asia.
- Two syllables and a straightforward English pronunciation.
- Osman, Usman and Uthman are the same name and different branches of a family may use different ones.
- The meaning is genuinely unknown, which surprises people who expect a name this famous to have one.
- The stress differs between the Arabic and English readings.
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Frequently asked
- How many Othmans are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 500 people named Othman are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Othman in 2025?
- Othman ranks #3379 among US boy names in 2025, with 34 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Othman?
- About 1 in every 50,238 US boys born in 2025 was named Othman — 34 in all.
- Will my child share the name Othman with classmates?
- Othman will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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