Osa

#10,107 for girls in 2025, 9 births · Last seen for boys in 2017 at #12,246
Given to girls 88.7% of the time

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Peak · girls
1881 · 9 births
Debut · girls
7 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
683
since 1880

Osa over time

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Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201881peak #582, 1881peak #2,543, 1916girlsboys
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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1930#2,42513#4,0015
1929#4,5705#3,2477
1928#4,7255#3,3577
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1925#2,77812#4,1975
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1919#2,64012#4,1685
1918#1,80521#3,3687
1917#2,10016#3,9815
1916#2,65811#2,54310
1915#1,88317#3,0827
1914#3,1886#3,2645
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First appearance
1880

In the first year the SSA published name data, Osa was already there! It came in at #679, and was given to 7 baby girls.


Quietest stretch: 1905, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.

Where Osa is popular in 1881

The SSA only publishes names by state from 1910 on.

See more about Osa
Momentum · girls
Brand new
  • 3,370 spots since 2024 (#13,477 → #10,107)
  • Biggest jump: 472 spots in 1899 (#1,263 → #791)
  • Biggest drop: 281 spots in 1898 (#982 → #1,263)
Rise & fade · girls
1 yr to peak
  • Debuted 1880
  • Peaked 1881 at #582 (9 births)
  • Births halved by 1905, 24 yrs later
Top of the charts · girls
Top 1,000 for 18 yrs
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: 18 yrs · run 1890–1895
Share of babies · girls
1 in 10,111
  • Highest: 1 in 10,111 girls born in 1892 were named Osa (0.01%)
  • Latest: 1 in 178,585 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
  • Its best rank, #582 in 1881, was only 1 in 10,217 (0.01%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · girls
The 1890s
  • 20.4% of all girls named Osa (139) were born in this decade
Girls or boys?
Flipped in 1930
  • Mostly boys until 1929, mostly girls since
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Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1880s80#582 (1881)#796
1890s139#616 (1892)#858
1900s109#872 (1906)#1,141
1910s104#1,805 (1918)#2,310
1920s108#2,091 (1923)#3,263
1930s57#2,317 (1937)#2,958
1940s31#3,665 (1946)#4,337
1950s8#3,962 (1950)#3,962
1960s5#6,767 (1964)#6,767
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2010s17#14,124 (2017)#14,829
2020s25#10,107 (2025)#13,507

All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.

Osa in 1881

girls
#582
9 births · 1 in 10,217 girls

Top girls' names in 1881

  1. #1Mary6,919
  2. #2Anna2,698
  3. #3Emma2,034
  4. #4Elizabeth1,852
  5. #5Margaret1,658
  6. #6Minnie1,653
  7. #7Ida1,439
  8. #8Annie1,326
  9. #9Bertha1,324
  10. #10Alice1,308
  11. #582Osa9
More about 1881

girls

91,953 girls got a published name in 1881; 1 in 10,217 of them was named Osa, which outranked 38.0% of the 938 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 24.2% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Osa
  1. #539Willa10
  2. #539Wilma10
  3. #539Zola10
  4. #582Osa9
  5. #582Amie9
  6. #582Ana9
  7. #582Angela9
  8. #623Abigail8
  9. #623Almedia8
  10. #623Althea8

Tied with 40 names at #582; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1880
Risers
  1. ↑ 431Isa#836 → #405
  2. ↑ 389Opal#836 → #447
  3. ↑ 345Natalie#836 → #491
  4. ↑ 304Arvilla#738 → #434
  5. ↑ 304Lauretta#738 → #434
Fallers
  1. ↓ 381Avis#449 → #830
  2. ↓ 365Clementine#375 → #740
  3. ↓ 364Eleanore#466 → #830
  4. ↓ 364Lonnie#466 → #830
  5. ↓ 319Luvenia#421 → #740

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 1881 →