Oskar

What Oskar means

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

Editor’s note More popular in England & Wales than the US: #349 vs #1,743 in 2025 Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Oskar?

US: Falling: down from #1481 in 2015. England & Wales: Falling: down from #214 in 2015.

Biggest US share so far: 2016, when 160 boys got the name (#1183 that year). First in the US records in 1916.

How common

• About 1 in 18,366 baby boys in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 2,247 baby boys in England and Wales in 2025
• About 1 in 1,786 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 MN (0.41 per 1,000 boys), IL (0.18 per 1,000 boys), WA (0.15 per 1,000 boys) in 2025.

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

US vs UK

Oskar is #1743 in the US and #349 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 Oskar were boys.

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

Other spellings

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Oscar1,620 US · 2,798 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 Oskar

Boys

• Lukas#288“a man from Lucania”^*
• Kayden#135Editor’s note First shows up in US records in 1989, with 6 babies
• Damian#109“to tame”^*
• Jaxon#115Editor’s note Cooling off in the US: #44 in 2015, #115 in 2025
• Josiah#54Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #54 vs #226 in 2025
• Bryson#152Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #152 vs #1,066 in 2025

For a sister

• Bella#136Form of Isabel, meaning “my God is an oath”^*
• Presley#225“priest + wood, clearing”^*
• Harmony#276From the word “harmony”^*
• Layla#36Editor’s note Down from #30 in 2015 to #36 in 2025 in the US
• Zoey#69Editor’s note First shows up in US records in 1967, with 6 babies
• Avery#37Editor’s note Used for both: 82% of US babies named Avery in 2025 were girls

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 Oskar’s. Place names are only included if they are in the top 300. Rank is US 2025.