Osman

Osman is the 2,770th most common surname in the United States, shared by 12,668 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 23,600.

By the numbers

People: 12,668
Rank: 2,770th
How common: 1 in 23,600
Per 100,000: 4.2

Where the name comes from

Origin a patronymic

from áss (“a god”) + mund (“protection, hand”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Osman described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

Black, not Hispanic 55.9%
White, not Hispanic 32.5%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 5.8%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.0%
Hispanic or Latino 1.8%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.2%

Notable people called Osman

Leon Osman (born 1981)English association football player
Cedi Osman (born 1995)Turkish-Macedonian basketball player
Farida Osman (born 1995)Egyptian swimmer
Qara Yuluk Osman Beg (1350–1435)The first king of Aq Qoyunlu
Salih Mahmoud Osman (born 1957)Sudanese politician
Richard Osman (born 1970)English television presenter, producer, writer and comedian
Ahmed Osman (born 1930)Moroccan former prime minister
Ibrahim Osman (born 2004)Ghanaian footballer

People named Osman with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Also a first name

Osman has been given to 3,893 American babies as a first name since 1917, peaking in 2022. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.