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Osmar vs Osmond

American parents have registered 2,304 Osmars since 1880, against 470 Osmonds. Osmar is still ahead, with 59 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Osmar against Osmond, 1880 to 2025 0 40 80 120 160 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Osmar Osmond

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 75 years in which either name was published, Osmar for 47 years and Osmond for 28 years. The lead changed hands 7 times.

Side by side

  Osmar Osmond
Total US births 2,304470
Most in one year 13319
Babies in 2025 5913
Estimated living today 2,300310
Median age today 1617
Peak year 20082022
Best rank 1,303rd boys5,019th boys
Rank in 2025 2,332nd6,446th
First recorded 19731912
Girls / boys 0 / 2,3040 / 470

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Osmar and Osmond.