Ozzie

Where Ozzie comes from

Diminutive forms, + -ie.
— Wiktionary's entry for Ozzie
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1900
    First appearance
    #1,050 among boys, 7 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1903
    Peak, #910
    7 babies named Ozzie — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1904
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births.
  4. 1906
    Ozzie Nelson born
    actor, band leader, television producer and director
  5. 1940
    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.
  6. 1964
    Ozzie Guillén born
    Venezuelan Major League Baseball player, coach, manager
In the dictionary
  • A male given name.
  • A diminutive of the male given name Oswald.
  • A diminutive of the male given name Oscar.
Namesakes
  • Ozzie Nelson · actor, band leader, television producer and director, 1906–1975
  • Ozzie Guillén · Venezuelan Major League Baseball player, coach, manager, born 1964
  • Ozzie Newsome · American football player, executive, born 1956
  • Ozzie Virgil Sr. · Dominican Republic baseball player, 1932–2024
  • Ozzie Canseco · American baseball player, born 1964

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.