Oscar

What Oscar means

Meaning not yet sourced. Wiktionary has no word-by-word meaning for Oscar yet, and we don’t write our own.

Editor’s note Down from #181 in 2015 to #223 in 2025 in the US Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Oscar?

US: Falling: down from #181 in 2015. England & Wales: Steady: #10 in 2015, #8 now.

Biggest US share so far: 1886, when 645 boys got the name (#26 that year). First in the US records in 1880.

How common

• About 1 in 1,054 baby boys in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 97 baby boys in England and Wales in 2025
• About 1 in 125 baby boys in Scotland in 2025

“1 in N” divides by all listed births for that sex. The US list leaves out names given to fewer than 5 babies, and the UK lists leave out names given to 2 or fewer, so the real figure is a little rarer than shown.

Where in the US

Most popular in VT (5.78 per 1,000 boys), DC (2.77 per 1,000 boys), NM (2.46 per 1,000 boys) in 2025.

SSA state data, 2025. Share of all listed boys born in each state.

US vs UK

Oscar is #223 in the US and #8 in England & Wales (2025).

Same sex as this page (boys). SSA (US), ONS (England and Wales), NRS (Scotland).

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 99.9+% of US babies named Oscar were boys.

Counts below the publishing threshold (US 5, UK 3) are not included.

How to say it

IPA from Wiktionary.

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Oskar93 US · 121 E&W
• Esgar6 US

Names that sound the same and differ by a letter or two, with baby counts for the same sex. US and E&W counts.

If you like Oscar

Boys

• Trey#883Editor’s note Peaked in the US in 1999, with 1,798 babies; 269 in 2025
• Edwin#398Editor’s note Peaked in the US in 1922, with 3,827 babies; 798 in 2025
• Juan#159Spanish, meaning “Yahweh is gracious”^*
• Edgar#486“rich + spear”^*
• Colin#343Short form of Nicholas, meaning “victory + people”^*
• Bryan#336Editor’s note Cooling off in the US: #166 in 2015, #336 in 2025

For a sister

• Destiny#635Editor’s note Cooling off in the US: #186 in 2015, #635 in 2025
• Angel#546Editor’s note Peaked in the US in 2002, with 3,100 babies; 551 in 2025
• Kaitlyn#799Editor’s note Cooling off in the US: #197 in 2015, #799 in 2025
• Ashlyn#972“dream, vision”^*
• Jenna#679Editor’s note Peaked in the US in 1985, with 6,436 babies; 418 in 2025
• Morgan#312Editor’s note Cooling off in the US: #121 in 2015, #312 in 2025

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under English, Irish & Celtic, whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Oscar’s. Rank is US 2025.