Osborn

Where Osborn comes from

Osborn hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

Along the way
  1. 1873
    Osborn Bergin born
    Irish linguist
  2. 1884
    Debut at its peak, #848
    #848 among boys with 6 babies — the first year it was published, and still its best.
  3. 1886
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births.
  4. 1897
    Osborn Maitland Miller born
    Scottish-American cartographer, surveyor, photographer and botanical collector
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Osborn Bergin · Irish linguist, 1873–1950
  • Osborn Maitland Miller · Scottish-American cartographer, surveyor, photographer and botanical collector, 1897–1979
  • Osborn Elliott · American magazine editor, 1924–2008

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.