girls:
56 births since 1979
#5660 (1st percentile)
boys:
1.1k births since 1986
#3479 (24th percentile)
overall:
1.2k births since 1979
#6560 (15th percentile)
The name Oshea is the #6,560 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,180 recorded births since 1979. This represents the 15.2% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 15.2% of all names). For boys, it ranks #3,479 (24.1% percentile) for all time with 1,124 births since 1986. For girls, it ranks #5,660 (0.9% percentile) for all time with 56 births since 1979.
Oshea first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1979 (1979 for girls and 1986 for boys). Birth data for Oshea is available in 39 out of the 45 years between 1979 and 2023 (38 years for boys and 10 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Oshea has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 95.3% of all recorded births being male. Interestingly, until around 1986, the name was more popular for girls (100.0% girls from 1979 to 1985), but since then it has been more commonly used for boys (95.7% boys from 1986 to 2023).
For boys, Oshea reached its peak popularity in 2016, achieving the 6.4% percentile (ranked #862) with 32 births per million. The name was most common in 2018, with 32 births per million (ranked 6.3% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2020, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Oshea ranks #864 for boys (5.2% percentile) with 28 births per million, which is 89.0% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Oshea reached its peak popularity in 1997, achieving the 0.2% percentile (ranked #861) with 4 births per million. The name was most common in 2019, with 4 births per million (ranked 0.2% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2020.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Oshea".
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Our model has identified 4 different pronunciations for the name Oshea. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 56.8% confident that Oshea is pronounced as oh-SHAY, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is oh-SHEE, at 15.9% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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