Osian

What Osian means

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

Editor’s note More popular in England & Wales than the US: #274 vs #8,243 in 2025 Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Osian?

US: New in the last 10 years. England & Wales: Steady: #292 in 2015, #274 now.

Biggest US share so far: 2025, when 9 boys got the name (#8243 that year). First in the US records in 2017.

How common

• About 1 in 189,786 baby boys in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 1,648 baby boys in England and Wales in 2025
• About 1 in 6,547 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.

US vs UK

Osian is #8243 in the US and #274 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 Osian were boys.

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

Other spellings

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Ossian8 US · 6 E&W
• Oshean6 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 Osian

Boys

• Sonny#298Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #822 in 2015, #298 in 2025
• Stetson#136“site in the Parish of South Brent”^*
• Colter#157Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #157 vs #1,466 in 2025
• Arthur#87possibly “bear”^*
• Leon#138“lion”^*
• Theodore#4Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #99 in 2015, #4 in 2025

For a sister

• Ruth#173Editor’s note Peaked in the US in 1920, with 26,102 babies; 1,781 in 2025
• Stevie#203Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #978 in 2015, #203 in 2025
• Alora#195“my dream”^*
• Wrenley#158Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #158 vs #1,454 in 2025
• Rosemary#251“dew of the sea”^*
• Margot#102Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #592 in 2015, #102 in 2025

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under where there are enough, topped up with common names whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Osian’s. Place names are only included if they are in the top 300. Rank is US 2025.