Ozzy
#2,514 for girls in 2025, 70 births · #548 for boys in 2025, 548 births
Given to boys 92.2% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2025 · 548 births
- Debut · boys
- 9 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 4,180since 1982
Ozzy over time
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #2,514 | 70 | #548 | 548 |
| 2024 | #2,798 | 60 | #598 | 476 |
| 2023 | #2,466 | 72 | #553 | 529 |
| 2022 | #2,821 | 60 | #618 | 453 |
| 2021 | #3,069 | 53 | #713 | 366 |
| 2020 | #6,083 | 19 | #1,046 | 193 |
| 2019 | #9,112 | 11 | #1,193 | 160 |
| 2018 | #10,545 | 9 | #1,521 | 112 |
| 2017 | — | #1,746 | 88 | |
| 2016 | — | #2,184 | 62 | |
| 2015 | — | #2,001 | 72 | |
| 2014 | — | #2,299 | 57 | |
| 2013 | — | #2,299 | 55 | |
| 2012 | — | #2,358 | 54 | |
| 2011 | — | #2,547 | 48 | |
| 2010 | — | #2,169 | 61 | |
| 2009 | — | #2,753 | 44 | |
| 2008 | — | #2,140 | 63 | |
| 2007 | — | #2,304 | 56 | |
| 2006 | — | #2,881 | 39 | |
| 2005 | — | #2,528 | 44 | |
| 2004 | — | #2,376 | 47 | |
| 2003 | — | #1,749 | 69 | |
| 2002 | — | #1,395 | 94 | |
| 2001 | — | #2,117 | 49 | |
| 2000 | — | #2,425 | 39 | |
| 1999 | — | #2,865 | 29 | |
| 1998 | — | #2,157 | 42 | |
| 1997 | — | #2,981 | 25 | |
| 1996 | — | #3,406 | 20 | |
| 1995 | — | #2,847 | 25 | |
| 1994 | — | #3,469 | 19 | |
| 1993 | — | #2,943 | 23 | |
| 1992 | — | #3,220 | 20 | |
| 1991 | — | #3,462 | 17 | |
| 1990 | — | #4,167 | 13 | |
| 1989 | — | #2,784 | 22 | |
| 1988 | — | #3,915 | 12 | |
| 1987 | — | #4,239 | 10 | |
| 1986 | — | #4,853 | 8 | |
| 1985 | — | #4,698 | 8 | |
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| 1982 | — | #4,234 | 9 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Ozzy! It came in at #4,234, and was given to 9 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1983–1984, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.
Where Ozzy is popular in 2021
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
Hover or tap a state for its numbers.
- Idaho#252 · 1 in 891
- Nevada#294 · 1 in 1,078
- Utah#298 · 1 in 1,200
- Oregon#355 · 1 in 1,445
- Arizona#415 · 1 in 1,919
Best ever in a state: #127 in Alaska, 2023.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Idaho | #252 | 9 | 1 in 891 |
| Nevada | #294 | 11 | 1 in 1,078 |
| Utah | #298 | 16 | 1 in 1,200 |
| Oregon | #355 | 11 | 1 in 1,445 |
| Arizona | #415 | 17 | 1 in 1,919 |
| Kentucky | #452 | 9 | 1 in 2,206 |
| Missouri | #468 | 12 | 1 in 2,379 |
| Mississippi | #540 | 5 | 1 in 2,397 |
| Arkansas | #543 | 5 | 1 in 2,599 |
| Colorado | #545 | 9 | 1 in 2,870 |
| Ohio | #602 | 15 | 1 in 3,614 |
| California | #624 | 46 | 1 in 4,117 |
| Tennessee | #680 | 9 | 1 in 3,982 |
| Indiana | #701 | 8 | 1 in 4,095 |
| Michigan | #704 | 10 | 1 in 4,297 |
| Oklahoma | #704 | 5 | 1 in 3,591 |
| Texas | #709 | 37 | 1 in 4,625 |
| Washington | #732 | 8 | 1 in 4,175 |
| North Carolina | #740 | 11 | 1 in 4,639 |
| Florida | #775 | 18 | 1 in 5,153 |
| Wisconsin | #778 | 5 | 1 in 4,865 |
| Minnesota | #803 | 5 | 1 in 5,028 |
| Pennsylvania | #850 | 9 | 1 in 6,162 |
| Georgia | #965 | 8 | 1 in 6,296 |
| New Jersey | #1,036 | 5 | 1 in 8,111 |
| New York | #1,048 | 11 | 1 in 8,103 |
| Illinois | #1,296 | 5 | 1 in 10,781 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the boys born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Ozzy
- 50 spots since 2024 (#598 → #548)
- 498 spots since 2020 (#1,046 → #548)
- 1,453 spots since 2015 (#2,001 → #548)
- Biggest jump: 333 spots in 2021 (#1,046 → #713)
- Biggest drop: 45 spots in 2024 (#553 → #598)
- Debuted 1982
- Peaked 2025 at #548 (548 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 5 yrs · run 2021–2025
- Highest: 1 in 3,117 boys born in 2025 were named Ozzy (0.03%)
- 61.4% of all boys named Ozzy (2,565) were born in this decade
- The majority has never changed
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1980s | 69 | #2,784 (1989) | #4,121 |
| 1990s | 233 | #2,157 (1998) | #3,152 |
| 2000s | 544 | #1,395 (2002) | #2,267 |
| 2010s | 769 | #1,193 (2019) | #2,032 |
| 2020s | 2,565 | #548 (2025) | #679 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Ozzy in 2021
Top girls' names in 2021
Top boys' names in 2021
More about 2021
girls
1,640,861 girls got a published name in 2021; 1 in 30,960 of them was named Ozzy, which outranked 82.6% of the 17,676 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.7% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #3,037Tova54
- #3,037Weslie54
- #3,037Yolanda54
- #3,069Ozzy53
- #3,069Aiko53
- #3,069Aisley53
- #3,069Alonna53
- #3,112Alanie52
- #3,112Ansleigh52
- #3,112Audrie52
Tied with 42 names at #3,069; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,749,482 boys got a published name in 2021; 1 in 4,780 of them was named Ozzy, which outranked 94.9% of the 14,096 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.8% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.