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How popular is the name Osama?
Births per year, rank history and how many Osamas are alive today.
Osama (male) is a rare boys' name in England and Wales, ranked 2440th in 2025 and given to 9 babies. This spelling of the name peaked in 1999, when 27 babies were given the name, the 639th most popular that year. It has declined since 1999; the 2025 figure is roughly 33% of its peak. Osama is one spelling of a name also recorded as Osamah and Ossama; the combined figures below cover every spelling.
Across all spellings of the name, the Osama you are most likely to meet is around 27 years old. Half of all Osamas born in England and Wales are between 14 and 29, and there are at least 420 of them alive today. If you walk into a room of 100 males, there's less than a 1% chance that anyone will be called Osama - on average, only one in every 722 such rooms contains a Osama.
How many babies are named Osama each year?
Includes all spellings: Osama, Osamah, Ossama. Figures before 1996 are estimates.
Where does the Osama spelling rank?
Where does the Osamah spelling rank?
Where does the Ossama spelling rank?
Where this data comes from
Figures from 1996 onwards are the Office for National Statistics' annual baby-name registrations for England and Wales, which record every name given to three or more babies in a year. Figures before 1996 are estimates: the ONS published only top-100 rankings at ten-year intervals back to 1904, so counts for those years are modelled from the rankings, calibrated against Douglas Galbi's long-run research into English name frequencies, and shown with an uncertainty band. Estimates of living bearers combine these birth figures with national life tables and ONS mid-year population estimates.
One limit worth naming: these figures count names as registered at birth. Anyone who changes their name later in life - including trans people, and anyone who adopts a different name by deed poll or simply by use - is not reflected here. Birth registrations record where a name began, not the name a person lives with.
Common questions
When was the name Osama most popular?
Osama peaked in 2000, when 37 babies in England and Wales were given the name across all spellings.
How many people are called Osama?
At least 420 people named Osama in any spelling born in England and Wales are alive today.
How old is the typical Osama?
Most living Osamas are between 14 and 29; the most common age is about 27.
Is Osama becoming more or less popular?
Well past its peak: today's figures are a fraction of the 2000 peak, though numbers have levelled off in recent years.