Oshea
Last seen for girls in 2023 at #15,194 · #2,480 for boys in 2025, 54 births
Given to boys 95.3% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 1993 · 54 births
- Debut · boys
- 20 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 1,227since 1986
Oshea over time
Rank among boys' names. Oshea has never cracked the top 1,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | — | #2,480 | 54 | |
| 2024 | — | #2,715 | 48 | |
| 2023 | #15,194 | 5 | #2,541 | 52 |
| 2022 | — | #2,648 | 50 | |
| 2021 | — | #2,695 | 47 | |
| 2020 | #15,088 | 5 | #2,617 | 48 |
| 2019 | #12,448 | 7 | #2,310 | 59 |
| 2018 | — | #2,189 | 63 | |
| 2017 | — | #2,295 | 57 | |
| 2016 | — | #2,145 | 64 | |
| 2015 | — | #2,684 | 45 | |
| 2014 | — | #4,702 | 20 | |
| 2013 | — | #4,463 | 21 | |
| 2012 | — | #7,050 | 11 | |
| 2011 | — | #8,767 | 8 | |
| 2010 | — | #5,741 | 15 | |
| 2009 | — | #5,334 | 17 | |
| 2008 | — | #4,540 | 21 | |
| 2007 | — | #5,210 | 17 | |
| 2006 | — | #4,105 | 23 | |
| 2005 | — | #5,875 | 13 | |
| 2004 | — | #4,793 | 17 | |
| 2003 | — | #3,976 | 21 | |
| 2002 | — | #4,322 | 18 | |
| 2001 | #15,352 | 5 | #4,121 | 19 |
| 2000 | — | #3,299 | 25 | |
| 1999 | — | #3,480 | 22 | |
| 1998 | #12,426 | 6 | #2,851 | 28 |
| 1997 | #10,836 | 7 | #2,347 | 35 |
| 1996 | #13,518 | 5 | #2,218 | 37 |
| 1995 | #13,386 | 5 | #1,782 | 49 |
| 1994 | — | #1,927 | 43 | |
| 1993 | — | #1,638 | 54 | |
| 1992 | #13,317 | 5 | #1,844 | 44 |
| 1991 | — | #3,813 | 15 | |
| 1990 | #11,409 | 6 | #8,117 | 5 |
| 1989 | — | #5,615 | 8 | |
| 1988 | — | #7,270 | 5 | |
| 1987 | — | #4,573 | 9 | |
| 1986 | — | #2,601 | 20 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Oshea! It came in at #2,601, and was given to 20 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1988, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Oshea is popular in 1993
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Louisiana#677 · 1 in 5,849
- Texas#1,492 · 1 in 30,614
Best ever in a state: #677 in Louisiana, 1993.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Louisiana | #677 | 5 | 1 in 5,849 |
| Texas | #1,492 | 5 | 1 in 30,614 |
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See more about Oshea
- 235 spots since 2024 (#2,715 → #2,480)
- 137 spots since 2020 (#2,617 → #2,480)
- 204 spots since 2015 (#2,684 → #2,480)
- Debuted 1986
- Peaked 1993 at #1,638 (54 births)
- Births halved by 1999, 6 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 28,828 boys born in 2018 were named Oshea (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 31,631 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #1,638 in 1993, was only 1 in 36,321 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 29.6% of all boys named Oshea (363) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1980s | 42 | #2,601 (1986) | #5,015 |
| 1990s | 332 | #1,638 (1993) | #3,002 |
| 2000s | 191 | #3,299 (2000) | #4,558 |
| 2010s | 363 | #2,145 (2016) | #4,235 |
| 2020s | 299 | #2,480 (2025) | #2,616 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Oshea in 1993
Top boys' names in 1993
More about 1993
boys
1,961,328 boys got a published name in 1993; 1 in 36,321 of them was named Oshea, which outranked 83.9% of the 10,170 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 16.7% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,620Ramone55
- #1,620Rufus55
- #1,620Sammie55
- #1,638Oshea54
- #1,638Bishop54
- #1,638Briar54
- #1,638Donell54
- #1,662Aren53
- #1,662Chavez53
- #1,662Cyril53
Tied with 23 names at #1,638; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.