girls:
1.1k births since 1886
#4646 (19th percentile)
boys:
209.8k births since 1880
#175 (96th percentile)
overall:
210.9k births since 1880
#370 (95th percentile)
The name Oscar is the #370 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 210,856 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 95.2% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 95.2% of all names). For boys, it ranks #175 (96.2% percentile) for all time with 209,786 births since 1880. For girls, it ranks #4,646 (18.7% percentile) for all time with 1,070 births since 1886.
Oscar has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for boys and since 1886 for girls).
The name Oscar has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.5% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Oscar reached its peak popularity in 1886, achieving the 88.1% percentile (ranked #26) with 5,418 births per million. The name was most common in 1886, with 5,418 births per million (ranked 88.1% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2008, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Oscar ranks #213 for boys (76.7% percentile) with 925 births per million, which is 17.1% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Oscar reached its peak popularity in 1931, achieving the 2.7% percentile (ranked #568) with 19 births per million. The name was most common in 1890, with 35 births per million (ranked 0.7% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2015.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Oscar".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Oscar. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 79.1% confident that Oscar is pronounced as AH-sker, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is AW-sker, at 20.9% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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For any given spelling, confidence scores across all identified pronunciations sum to 100%. However, these scores don't account for the possibility of valid pronunciations that our model hasn't identified.
The raw pronunciations shown (like AA1 S K ER0) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.
Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.
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