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How popular is the name Oscar?

Births per year, rank history and how many Oscars are alive today.

Oscar is one of the ten most popular boys' names in England and Wales, ranked 9th in 2024 with 2,747 babies given the name. This spelling of the name peaked in 2013, when 4,511 babies were given the name, the 7th most popular that year. Numbers have been falling in recent years. At least 67,000 babies have been named Oscar in England and Wales since 1996. Oscar is one spelling of a name also recorded as Oskar; the combined figures below cover every spelling.

Across all spellings of the name, the Oscar you are most likely to meet is around 12 years old. Half of all Oscars born in England and Wales are between 7 and 17, and there are at least 74,000 of them alive today. If you walk into a room of 100 males, there's roughly a 22% chance that at least one of them will be called Oscar.

How many babies are named Oscar each year?

Includes all spellings: Oscar, Oskar. Figures before 1996 are estimates.

Where does the Oscar spelling rank?

Where does the Oskar 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.