girls:
10 births since 2000
#5706 (0th percentile)
boys:
134 births since 2004
#4452 (3rd percentile)
overall:
144 births since 2000
#7595 (2nd percentile)
The name Oshen is the #7,595 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 144 recorded births since 2000. This represents the 1.8% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 1.8% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,452 (2.9% percentile) for all time with 134 births since 2004. For girls, it ranks #5,706 (0.1% percentile) for all time with 10 births since 2000.
Oshen first appeared in U.S. birth records in 2000 (2000 for girls and 2004 for boys). Birth data for Oshen is available in 18 out of the 24 years between 2000 and 2023 (17 years for boys and 2 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 Oshen has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 93.1% of all recorded births being male. Interestingly, until around 2004, the name was more popular for girls (100.0% girls from 2000 to 2003), but since then it has been more commonly used for boys (96.4% boys from 2004 to 2023).
For boys, Oshen reached its peak popularity in 2023, achieving the 1.6% percentile (ranked #896) with 11 births per million. The name was most common in 2023, with 11 births per million (ranked 1.6% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2013, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Oshen is at or near its peak popularity for boys, ranked #896 (1.6% percentile) with 11 births per million.
For girls, Oshen reached its peak popularity in 2019, achieving the 0.0% percentile (ranked #945) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 2019, with 3 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2019.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Oshen".
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Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Oshen. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 78.8% confident that Oshen is pronounced as OH-shuhn, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is oh-SHEHN, at 12.1% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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