Osama
Osama is a boy's name that peaked in 1999, when it was the 1,642nd most popular in the United States. In 2025 it ranked 5,208th. About 950 Osamas are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 29.
Popularity, 1880–2025
boys named Osama
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 979
- Estimated living today
- 950
- Median age today
- 29
- Peak year
- 1999
- Best rank
- 1,642nd
- Rank in 2025
- 5,208th
- First recorded
- 1968
How old the living Osamas are
born that year still alive today
Of the 979 babies given the name since 1968, about 950 are alive — 97 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1996 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
Origin Arabic
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Osamas
- Osama bin Laden (1957–2011)Saudi terrorist and co-founder of al-Qaeda
- Osama Hawsawi (born 1984)Saudi Arabian footballer
- Osama Elsamni (born 1988)Japanese association football player
- Osama Rashid (born 1992)Iraqi/Dutch footballer
- Osama Orabi (born 1962)Egyptian footballer
- Osama Al-Muwallad (born 1984)Saudi Arabian footballer
People named Osama with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Osama is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Osama is most concentrated in New Jersey (3.7×), New York (3.5×), California (3.0×), Texas (2.2×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1999
The most popular boys’ names the year Osama peaked:
Osama elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Italy boys | Osama | 524 | — |
| England and Wales boys | Osama | 306 | 639th |
| France boys | Osama | 70 | 3,708th |
| Belgium boys | Osama | 21 | 1,232nd |
| Scotland boys | Osama | 12 | 380th |
| Ireland boys | Osama | 3 | 506th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Osama: rank by region
In 2017, Osama was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flanders | Osama | 869 | 5 |
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Osama by city
| City | Years | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Berlin boys | 2017–2023 | 4 | 593rd |
One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.
Osama among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland boys | Osama | 48 | 68 |
| Finland girls | Osama | — | 7 |
A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Where Osama lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 899 men called Osama were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.
Men: the provinces where it is densest
| Province | Spelling | People | Per thousand | Place there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Melilla | Osama | 12 | 0.274 | 431 |
| Teruel | Osama | 13 | 0.187 | 441 |
| Castellón/Castelló | Osama | 37 | 0.119 | 660 |
| Murcia | Osama | 94 | 0.118 | 605 |
| Navarra | Osama | 25 | 0.074 | 899 |
| Guadalajara | Osama | 10 | 0.069 | 796 |
Listed in 35 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 17 it is either held by fewer than 5 people – the point below which the source withholds a name – or it fell past the 5,000 names the source will print for one province. Neither means nobody there is called it. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.
Related names
Osama against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.