Ozias
Masculine · “Yahweh is my strength”
Ozias is the Greek form of the Hebrew name Uzziah, and it reached English through the Bible: the Septuagint translators spelled it this way, and the King James New Testament kept it in Matthew's genealogy. It is three open syllables with the stress in the middle, and it shortens in one move to Oz.
How old is the name Ozias?
Ozias first appears in US birth records in 1920 — 105 years ago. The typical Ozias is a kid of about 3 — this name's wave is very recent. About 2,000 people named Ozias are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Ozias most popular?
Ozias peaked in 2025, reaching #707 nationally. Today it ranks #707, exactly where it peaked. See the whole 2025 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Uzziyyahu to Ozias
The story of Ozias
The name begins as Hebrew Uzziyyahu, borne by a king of Judah in the eighth century BC. When Jewish scholars in Alexandria translated the scriptures into Greek, they rendered it Ozias, and that Greek spelling passed into the Latin Vulgate, into the Book of Judith, and into the King James New Testament, where Ozias stands in the line of descent from Abraham. English and New England families of earlier centuries picked biblical names straight off the page, and Ozias was among them. The same spelling serves Spanish and Portuguese speakers as Ozías, accented on a different syllable but written almost identically.
Meaning
Yahweh is my strength
From Hebrew ʿoz, 'strength', joined to a short form of the divine name.
How the name formed
- Uzziyyahu
- Uzziah
- Ozias
- Ozías
Related forms: Uzziah · Ozías · Ozias · Ὀζίας · Ozias · Озия (Oziya)
Pronouncing Ozias
oh-ZY-uhs
The traditional English reading, following the King James Bible, is oh-ZY-uhs. Many families say oh-ZEE-uhs instead, and Spanish-speaking households usually say o-SEE-as, written Ozías. All three are in genuine use, so it is worth deciding early which one you will correct people toward.
Nicknames for Ozias
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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
- 1920
- Most boys named
- 2025381 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #707reached in 2025
- Change vs 2024
- +34.6%381 in 2025, from 283
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.
Ozias in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Uzziah in Hebrew — same name
- Ozías in Spanish — spelling variant
- Ozias in Portuguese — same name
- Ὀζίας in Greek — transliteration
- Ozias in French — same name
- Озия (Oziya) in Russian — transliteration
Strongest US states over the last decade: California, Texas, Florida.
Oziass among us
people named Ozias are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 boy in 4,483 born in 2025 was named Ozias
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Ozias
- #707
- Ozias on the 2025 chart
- #552
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Ozias went to 381 boys in 2025, but Osias is the same name said out loud. Together the 2 spellings went to 424, which makes it the 552nd most-given boys’ name of the year — 155 places above the chart.
- Ozias381
- Osias43
About 1 boy in 4,028 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 4,483 for Ozias itself.
Spellings are grouped by a fixed rule that folds interchangeable English spellings of one sound (ck/k, ph/f, x/ks, a non-initial y for i) and keeps vowels apart, so Sean and Shawn stay separate names. It errs towards splitting: a family here is never larger than the truth. SSA national data, 2025. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Arnulfo test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Ozias's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Arnulfo climbed just as high around 1951, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Arnulfo's path sketches the road Ozias is walking now.
Ozias is climbing fast right now. Steep climbs tend to come with steep descents — the quicker a name arrives, the more firmly it belongs to its moment.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Where Ozias is headed
Ozias looks set to keep climbing gently, with roughly 43% more babies a year by 2030 if the current curve holds.
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.
Ozias beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Ozias in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US boys given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- Documented in continuous written use for well over two thousand years, from the Hebrew scriptures through Greek and Latin into English Bibles.
- Shortens cleanly to Oz or Ozzie, both already established as everyday nicknames.
- Written almost identically in English, Spanish and Portuguese, so it crosses between those households without respelling.
- Rare enough that a child is unlikely to share it in a classroom, while the spelling still follows ordinary English letter patterns.
- Three pronunciations circulate — oh-ZY-uhs, oh-ZEE-uhs, and the Spanish o-SEE-as — so introductions will often include a correction. Choosing one and using it consistently saves a lot of small repairs.
- It will be misheard and rewritten as Osias, Ozzias, Josias or Hosea by people meeting it for the first time, especially over the phone.
- The short form Oz comes attached to the Wizard of Oz and to Ozzy Osbourne. Neither is a problem, but they will be the first things some people mention.
- Its recent rise means most people carrying this name in the US right now are small children, so adult reference points are thin.
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Frequently asked
- How many Oziass are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 2,000 people named Ozias are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Ozias?
- Ozias is the most-used spelling in US records — 381 of the 424 babies given the name in 2025. The others recorded are Osias.
- How popular is the name Ozias in 2025?
- Ozias ranks #707 among US boy names in 2025, with 381 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Ozias?
- About 1 in every 4,483 US boys born in 2025 was named Ozias — 381 in all.
- Will my child share the name Ozias with classmates?
- Ozias will almost certainly be the only one in school.
Ranked beside Ozias
Names sitting at a similar level of popularity right now.
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