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
Along the way
  1. 1912
    Debut at its peak, #1,417
    #1,417 among boys with 12 babies — 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.