boys:
602 births since 1998
#3984 (13th percentile)
overall:
602 births since 1998
#7137 (8th percentile)
The name Oz is the #7,137 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 602 recorded births since 1998. This represents the 7.8% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 7.8% of all names). For boys, it ranks #3,984 (13.1% percentile) for all time with 602 births since 1998.
Oz first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1998 (first recorded for boys in 1998).
For boys, Oz reached its peak popularity in 2019, achieving the 4.3% percentile (ranked #878) with 23 births per million. The name was most common in 2019, with 23 births per million (ranked 4.3% percentile). Over the past 5 years, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Oz is at or near its peak popularity for boys, ranked #876 (3.8% percentile) with 22 births per million.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Oz".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Oz. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 82.9% confident that Oz is pronounced as ahz, which has 1 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is awz, at 17.1% confidence, with 1 syllables.
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