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 2023
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Georgia#1,367 · 1 in 10,078
- California#2,203 · 1 in 29,979
Best ever in a state: #677 in Louisiana, 1993.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Georgia | #1,367 | 5 | 1 in 10,078 |
| California | #2,203 | 6 | 1 in 29,979 |
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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 2023
Top girls' names in 2023
Top boys' names in 2023
More about 2023
girls
1,604,582 girls got a published name in 2023; 1 in 320,916 of them was named Oshea, which outranked 13.7% of the 17,615 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.2% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
Tied with 2,421 names at #15,194; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,710,576 boys got a published name in 2023; 1 in 32,896 of them was named Oshea, which outranked 82.1% of the 14,215 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.8% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #2,510Yeison53
- #2,510Yonatan53
- #2,510Zakhari53
- #2,541Oshea52
- #2,541Alexandro52
- #2,541Ameen52
- #2,541Avyukt52
- #2,575Abdullahi51
- #2,575Adonnis51
- #2,575Adriano51
Tied with 33 names at #2,541; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.