Osman

Where Osman comes from

Inherited from Middle English, from Old Norse Ásmundr, from áss (“a god”) + mund (“protection, hand”).
— Wiktionary's entry for Osman
  • Germanic
  • Ottoman Turkish
  • Iranian Persian
  • 2 syllables
Along the way
  1. 1258
    Osman I born
    founder of the Ottoman Empire
  2. 1604
    Osman II born
    16th Sultan of the Ottoman Empire
  3. 1917
    First appearance
    #2,423 among boys, 11 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  4. 2022
    Peak, #975
    231 babies named Osman — more than any year before or since.
In the dictionary
  • A male given name from the Germanic languages, variant of Osmond, rare in English.
  • A male given name from Ottoman Turkish [in turn from Arabic], notably borne by:
  • Osman I (d. 1323/4), founder of the Ottoman Empire.
  • Osman II (1604–1622), sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1618 until his death.
  • Osman III (1699–1757), sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1754 until his death.
  • A male given name from Iranian Persian
Namesakes
  • Osman I · founder of the Ottoman Empire, 1258–1326
  • Osman II · 16th Sultan of the Ottoman Empire, 1604–1622
  • Osman III · 25th Sultan of the Ottoman Empire, 1699–1757
  • Osman Bukari · Ghanaian association football player, born 1998
  • Osman Hamdi Bey · Ottoman statesman, academic and artist, 1842–1910

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.