Osmond

Where Osmond comes from

Old Norse Ásmundr, from áss (“a god”) + mund (“protection, hand”). Later merged with a Norman French Osmond, Osmont, Omont from the same Old Norse root. Cognate with native Old English Ōsmund.
— Wiktionary's entry for Osmond
  • Germanic
Osmond through the years
  1. 1912
    Debut at its peak, #1,417
    #1,417 among boys with 12 babies in the first year it was published, and still its best.
  2. 1913
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births.
In the dictionary
  • A male given name from the Germanic languages, rare in English.
Namesakes

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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.