Oskar
#1,743 for boys in 2025, 93 births
- Peak · boys
- 2016 · 160 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 3,241since 1916
Oskar over time
Rank among boys' names. Oskar has never cracked the top 1,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | boys | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #1,743 | 93 |
| 2024 | #1,724 | 96 |
| 2023 | #1,449 | 125 |
| 2022 | #1,374 | 136 |
| 2021 | #1,469 | 122 |
| 2020 | #1,271 | 144 |
| 2019 | #1,372 | 130 |
| 2018 | #1,343 | 134 |
| 2017 | #1,378 | 128 |
| 2016 | #1,183 | 160 |
| 2015 | #1,481 | 112 |
| 2014 | #1,313 | 134 |
| 2013 | #1,305 | 132 |
| 2012 | #1,285 | 136 |
| 2011 | #1,371 | 122 |
| 2010 | #1,316 | 130 |
| 2009 | #1,278 | 137 |
| 2008 | #1,633 | 95 |
| 2007 | #1,614 | 96 |
| 2006 | #1,402 | 113 |
| 2005 | #1,659 | 81 |
| 2004 | #1,701 | 75 |
| 2003 | #1,906 | 61 |
| 2002 | #1,694 | 69 |
| 2001 | #1,935 | 56 |
| 2000 | #2,425 | 39 |
| 1999 | #2,510 | 35 |
| 1998 | #2,312 | 38 |
| 1997 | #2,823 | 27 |
| 1996 | #2,838 | 26 |
| 1995 | #2,762 | 26 |
| 1994 | #2,766 | 26 |
| 1993 | #2,786 | 25 |
| 1992 | #2,670 | 26 |
| 1991 | #3,636 | 16 |
| 1990 | #3,779 | 15 |
| 1989 | #7,905 | 5 |
| 1988 | #3,915 | 12 |
| 1987 | #4,968 | 8 |
| 1986 | #4,457 | 9 |
| 1985 | #5,785 | 6 |
| 1984 | #6,315 | 5 |
| 1983 | #6,238 | 5 |
| 1982 | #5,619 | 6 |
| 1981 | #4,961 | 7 |
| 1980 | #5,525 | 6 |
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| 1978 | #5,772 | 5 |
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| 1976 | #5,587 | 5 |
| 1975 | #5,464 | 5 |
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| 1973 | #4,505 | 6 |
| 1972 | #3,622 | 8 |
| 1971 | #4,907 | 5 |
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| 1968 | #4,136 | 5 |
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| 1965 | #3,537 | 6 |
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| 1922 | #3,872 | 6 |
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| 1916 | #3,897 | 5 |
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The first year at least five boys were named Oskar! It came in at #3,897, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1916–1921, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Oskar is popular in 2018
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Minnesota#426 · 1 in 2,051
- Maryland#699 · 1 in 4,398
- Michigan#801 · 1 in 5,737
- Washington#835 · 1 in 5,750
- New York#907 · 1 in 7,365
Best ever in a state: #380 in Minnesota, 2011.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Minnesota | #426 | 13 | 1 in 2,051 |
| Maryland | #699 | 6 | 1 in 4,398 |
| Michigan | #801 | 8 | 1 in 5,737 |
| Washington | #835 | 6 | 1 in 5,750 |
| New York | #907 | 13 | 1 in 7,365 |
| Illinois | #1,324 | 5 | 1 in 11,934 |
| California | #1,372 | 13 | 1 in 15,886 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the boys born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Oskar
- 19 spots since 2024 (#1,724 → #1,743)
- 472 spots since 2020 (#1,271 → #1,743)
- 262 spots since 2015 (#1,481 → #1,743)
- Debuted 1916
- Peaked 2016 at #1,183 (160 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 11,861 boys born in 2016 were named Oskar (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 18,366 boys born in 2025 (0.01%)
- 40.7% of all boys named Oskar (1,318) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
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| 1910s | 5 | #3,897 (1916) | #3,897 |
| 1920s | 6 | #3,872 (1922) | #3,872 |
| 1930s | 0 | — | — |
| 1940s | 0 | — | — |
| 1950s | 0 | — | — |
| 1960s | 11 | #3,537 (1965) | #3,837 |
| 1970s | 34 | #3,622 (1972) | #4,976 |
| 1980s | 69 | #3,915 (1988) | #5,569 |
| 1990s | 260 | #2,312 (1998) | #2,888 |
| 2000s | 822 | #1,278 (2009) | #1,725 |
| 2010s | 1,318 | #1,183 (2016) | #1,335 |
| 2020s | 716 | #1,271 (2020) | #1,505 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Oskar in 2018
Top boys' names in 2018
More about 2018
boys
1,816,158 boys got a published name in 2018; 1 in 13,553 of them was named Oskar, which outranked 90.5% of the 14,118 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.9% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,335Ruger135
- #1,335Tevin135
- #1,335Warner135
- #1,343Oskar134
- #1,343Benaiah134
- #1,343Kyro134
- #1,343Smith134
- #1,348Aven133
- #1,348Jadon133
- #1,348Rico133
Tied with 4 names at #1,343; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.