girls:
2.9k births since 1880
#3211 (44th percentile)
boys:
1.7k births since 1880
#3021 (34th percentile)
overall:
4.6k births since 1880
#4033 (48th percentile)
The name Ossie is the #4,033 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 4,594 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 47.9% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 47.9% of all names). For girls, it ranks #3,211 (43.8% percentile) for all time with 2,917 births since 1880. For boys, it ranks #3,021 (34.1% percentile) for all time with 1,677 births since 1880.
Ossie has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 Birth data for Ossie is available in 116 out of the 135 years between 1880 and 2014 (109 years for boys and 87 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 Ossie has been given to both genders, with a slight preference for girls (63.5% of all recorded births). In 2014, 0.0% of babies named Ossie were girls.
For girls, Ossie reached its peak popularity in 1919, achieving the 15.2% percentile (ranked #504) with 82 births per million. The name was most common in 1887, with 109 births per million (ranked 4.7% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1980.
For boys, Ossie reached its peak popularity in 1919, achieving the 6.9% percentile (ranked #498) with 41 births per million. The name was most common in 1900, with 93 births per million (ranked 4.0% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2014.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Ossie".
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Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Ossie. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 62.5% confident that Ossie is pronounced as AH-see, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is AW-see, at 30.0% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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