Ossie

Where Ossie comes from

Wiktionary's etymology listing comes up empty for Ossie.

  • Vowel-ended
Ossie through the years
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #836 among girls, with 5 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1887
    Peak, #537
    17 babies named Ossie, its best rank.
  3. 1888
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births, down to #959.
  4. 1942
    Ossie Enekwe born
    Nigerian dramatist, poet, and novelist
  5. 1954
    Ossie Stewart born
    sailor
  6. 1967
    Mostly boys from here
    Until now more girls than boys got the name. From this year on, more boys have.
In the dictionary
  • A male given name.
  • A female given name.
Namesakes
  • Ossie Stewart · sailor, born 1954
  • Ossie Enekwe · Nigerian dramatist, poet, and novelist, 1942–2010
  • Ossie Vitt · American baseball player, 1890–1963
  • Ossie Clark · British fashion designer, 1942–1996
  • Ossie Wheatley · cricketer, born 1935

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.