Oz

Where Oz comes from

Abbreviations.
— Wiktionary's entry for Oz
  • 1 syllable
Oz through the years
  1. 1998
    First appearance
    #8,479 among boys with 6 babies, the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 2019
    Peak, #2,766
    45 babies named Oz, the most in any year.
In the dictionary
  • A male given name.
  • A diminutive of the male given names Oscar, Oswald, and Osbourne.
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.