Osiris

Where Osiris comes from

Osiris 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. 1925
    Osiris Rodríguez Castillos born
    Uruguayan musician
  2. 1970
    First appearance
    #3,836 among boys, 7 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  3. 1988
    Osiris Eldridge born
    American basketball player
  4. 2007
    Mostly boys from here
    Until now more girls than boys got the name; from this year it's the other way round, and has stayed that way.
  5. 2020
    Peak, #916
    244 babies named Osiris — more than any year before or since.
In the dictionary

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

Namesakes
  • Osiris Eldridge · American basketball player, born 1988
  • Osiris Rodríguez Castillos · Uruguayan musician, 1925–1996
  • Osiris Matos · Dominican baseball pitcher, born 1984

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.