O'Shane
given name · English · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
O'Shane is a given name, most frequently recorded in Jamaica, where it is the 66th most common given name. It appears chiefly in English and English (Jamaica), written in the Latin script.
- JMJamaica1 in 4.3K◐
- USUnited States1 in 731K
- KNSt. Kitts & Nevis1 in 13K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈456 ●
- Sources
- 132 ●
- 1 in 731K ◐
across 2 countries
3.8K records
Official registry-verified
United States
Spellings & scripts●
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Oshane in US United States, JM Jamaica, GB United Kingdom and 6 more.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| JM Jamaica | #66 | 1,095 | 1.1K rec. | — | — | Oshane | 15 |
| US United States | — | 455 | 2.5K rec. | 1 in 731K | 455 | Oshane | 132 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 112 | 82 rec. | — | — | Oshane | 28 |
| CA Canada | — | 37 | 35 rec. | — | — | Oshane | 24 |
| AU Australia | — | 13 | 64 rec. | — | — | Oshane | 11 |
| DE Germany | — | 12 | 12 rec. | — | — | Oshane | 3 |
| KN St. Kitts & Nevis | #132 | 6 | 1 rec. | — | 6 | Oshane | 2 |
| MY Malaysia | — | 6 | 6 rec. | — | — | Oshane | 1 |
| PH Philippines | — | 5 | 1 rec. | — | — | Oshane | 4 |
| GY Guyana | — | 1 | 0 rec. | 1 in 750K | 1 | — | 1 |
| VC St. Vincent & Grenadines | — | — | 0 rec. | — | 2 | — | 1 |
| GD Grenada | — | — | 0 rec. | — | 1 | — | 1 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- English36892%
- English (Jamaica)113%
- Greek62%
- Spanish51%
Show as table
| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| English | 368 | 92% |
| English (Jamaica) | 11 | 3% |
| Greek | 6 | 2% |
| Spanish | 5 | 1% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Notable people with this name●
- Pat O'Shaneb. 1941AUnot in their usual nameAustralian teacher, barrister, public servant, jurist, and Aboriginal activist
- Tjandamurra O'Shaneb. 1990AUnot in their usual nameAustralian victim of crime
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence●
Attested in 2 sources across 1 country.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames (Census 2010 + voter-file supplement) | — | — | — |
Reference works 1
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 1 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name O'Shane?
- We estimate roughly 456 people bear O'Shane (counting its spellings and scripts) across 2 countries in our records.
- In which country does O'Shane have the most bearers?
- O'Shane is most frequently recorded in Jamaica, where it is most often spelled oshane.
- How common is O'Shane compared with other names?
- In Jamaica, O'Shane is the 66th most common given name of 20,217 given names recorded there.
- Is O'Shane a male or female name?
- O'Shane is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
Query this name via API
curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/o'shaneThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. Rate-limited for casual use. Bulk access and licensing.
About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “O'Shane” — the 66th most common given name in Jamaica. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.