Ossie

Where Ossie comes from

The dictionaries list Ossie as a given name — a male given name — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #836 among girls — 5 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1887
    Peak, #537
    17 babies named Ossie — more than any year before or since.
  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 it's the other way round, and has stayed that way.
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.