Usman

What Usman means

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

Editor’s note First shows up in US records in 1979, with 6 babies Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Usman?

US: Rising: up from #2919 in 2015. England & Wales: Rising: up from #656 in 2015.

Biggest US share so far: 2025, when 106 boys got the name (#1602 that year). First in the US records in 1979.

How common

• About 1 in 16,114 baby boys in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 3,022 baby boys in England and Wales 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 IL (0.26 per 1,000 boys), MI (0.2 per 1,000 boys), VA (0.16 per 1,000 boys) in 2025.

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

US vs UK

Usman is #1602 in the US and #436 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 Usman were boys.

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

Other spellings

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Osman181 US · 82 E&W
• Ousmane31 US · 4 E&W
• Ousman9 US · 8 E&W
• Usmon14 US
• Osmin12 US
• Usmaan0 US · 4 E&W

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

Spelling variants on Wiktionary

• Oosman
• Ousmane

Listed as alternative forms on Wiktionary.

If you like Usman

Boys

• Salem#679Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #679 vs #1,359 in 2025
• Hassan#625“doer of good”^*
• Kareem#701Variant of Karim, meaning “noble, generous”^*
• Idris#694Editor’s note More popular in England & Wales than the US: #142 vs #694 in 2025
• Muhammad#239“praised, commendable, laudable”^*
• Musa#469Editor’s note More popular in England & Wales than the US: #64 vs #469 in 2025

For a sister

• Salem#435Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #1,425 in 2015, #435 in 2025
• Aisha#337Editor’s note More popular in England & Wales than the US: #106 vs #337 in 2025
• Khadija#980Editor’s note More popular in England & Wales than the US: #146 vs #980 in 2025
• Amira#132“princess”^*
• Maryam#351Editor’s note More popular in England & Wales than the US: #52 vs #351 in 2025
• Alia#587Feminine form of Ali, meaning “high, exalted”^*

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