Ossie
Ossie is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 553rd, in 1887.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 191996 births
- Best rank
- #553in 1887
- Since 1880
- 4,594people given the name
The story in the numbers
2,917 girls have been named Ossie in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1919, with 96 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 96 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1924, and the 1920s alone account for 25%. It has spent 47 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Ossie is used for both sexes: 37% of its bearers are boys (1,677), most of them born around 1919.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
In 1919, its biggest year
Ossie was the 715th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1919 were Mary, Helen, Dorothy, Margaret and Ruth. See all of 1919.
Names that rose and fell with Ossie
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Mablepeak 1922
- Alvertapeak 1918
- Bulahpeak 1919
- Leolapeak 1920
- Eulapeak 1919
- Henrettapeak 1916
- Inezpeak 1920
- Leonapeak 1918
Other spellings in the data
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.