Osama
given name · Arabic · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Osama is a given name, with more bearers in Türkiye than in any other country, where it is the 12th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Arabic and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Osama är ett arabiskt namn som betyder ’lejon’.
- TRTürkiye1 in 264◐
- MYMalaysia1 in 314
- CYCyprus1 in 358
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈338K ●
- #550 ●
- 5 ●
- Sources
- 281 ●
- 1 in 264 ◐
across 8 countries
of 16M given names
recorded for this name
4.6M records
Official registry-verified
Türkiye
Spellings & scripts●
3 other spellings are counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Osman in TR Türkiye, CY Cyprus, NL Netherlands and 2 more, Othman in MY Malaysia, FR France, MA Morocco and 2 more, Usama in PK Pakistan, NG Nigeria and Осман in KZ Kazakhstan, RU Russia.
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●
Osama är ett arabiskt namn som betyder ’lejon’. Usama ibn Zaid var en av profeten Muhammeds följeslagare.
Sources 1
- Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
Attested across 6 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TR Türkiye | #12 | 310,387 | 4M rec. | 1 in 264 | 310K | Osman | 134 |
| MY Malaysia | — | 175,479 | 81K rec. | — | 1.7K | Othman | 112 |
| EG Egypt | #53 | 75,743 | 71K rec. | — | listed | Osama | 175 |
| SY Syria | #43 | 72,992 | 118K rec. | — | — | Osama | 60 |
| TH Thailand | #795 | 26,756 | 19K rec. | — | #793,424 | อุสมาน | 66 |
| PK Pakistan | #227 | 24,886 | 8.6K rec. | — | listed | Usama | 106 |
| IN India | — | 23,468 | 9.1K rec. | — | 1.6K | Osama | 86 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | #65 | 17,329 | 10K rec. | — | listed | Osama | 168 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 11,308 | 7.2K rec. | — | 3 | Osama | 99 |
| US United States | — | 7,164 | 73K rec. | 1 in 46K | 13K | Osama | 281 |
| RU Russia | — | 6,791 | 2.3K rec. | — | #238 | Осман | 66 |
| CY Cyprus | #42 | 6,359 | 7.9K rec. | — | — | Osman | 30 |
Roughly 310K people in Türkiye bear this name (about 1 in 264). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Arabic133K62%
- English18K8%
- Spanish6.8K3%
- Hindi5.1K2%
- German3.6K2%
Show as table
| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Arabic | 132,917 | 62% |
| English | 17,952 | 8% |
| Spanish | 6,786 | 3% |
| Hindi | 5,139 | 2% |
| German | 3,590 | 2% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
Osama is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
León
as a name25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado
In Serbo-Croatian, loneliness, solitude, isolation
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Over time●
Show as table
| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1968 | 6 |
| 1972 | 6 |
| 1973 | 6 |
| 1974 | 5 |
| 1975 | 5 |
| 1976 | 6 |
| 1977 | 8 |
| 1978 | 17 |
| 1979 | 10 |
| 1980 | 14 |
| 1981 | 12 |
| 1982 | 13 |
| 1983 | 13 |
| 1984 | 18 |
| 1985 | 32 |
| 1986 | 16 |
| 1987 | 14 |
| 1988 | 26 |
| 1989 | 23 |
| 1990 | 28 |
| 1991 | 43 |
| 1992 | 36 |
| 1993 | 34 |
| 1994 | 36 |
| 1995 | 38 |
| 1996 | 48 |
| 1997 | 44 |
| 1998 | 47 |
| 1999 | 65 |
| 2000 | 54 |
| 2001 | 38 |
| 2002 | 11 |
| 2003 | 11 |
| 2004 | 5 |
| 2006 | 6 |
| 2007 | 7 |
| 2009 | 5 |
| 2011 | 6 |
| 2012 | 6 |
| 2013 | 11 |
| 2014 | 9 |
| 2015 | 14 |
| 2016 | 14 |
| 2017 | 13 |
| 2018 | 8 |
| 2019 | 15 |
| 2020 | 8 |
| 2021 | 12 |
| 2022 | 9 |
| 2023 | 18 |
| 2024 | 12 |
| 2025 | 18 |
US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 52 years between 1968–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Usama ibn Munqidhb. 1095SYnot in their usual nameArabic poet
- Osama bin Ladenb. 1957SASaudi terrorist and co-founder of al-Qaeda (1957–2011)
- Osama Hawsawib. 1984SASaudi Arabian footballer
- Oussama Melloulib. 1984TNnot in their usual nameTunisian swimmer
- Oussama Assaidib. 1988NLnot in their usual nameMoroccan association football player
- Osama Elsamnib. 1988JPJapanese association football player
- Oussama Haddadib. 1992TNnot in their usual nameTunisian association football player
- Osama Rashidb. 1992IQIraqi/Dutch footballer
- Oussama Oueslatib. 1996TNnot in their usual nameTunisian taekwondo athlete
- Oussama El Azzouzib. 2001NLnot in their usual nameMoroccan-Dutch association football player
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 59 sources across 33 countries.
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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 · 282 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Osama?
- We estimate roughly 338 thousand people bear Osama (counting its spellings and scripts) across 8 countries in our records.
- In which country does Osama have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 310 thousand people bear Osama in Türkiye, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled osman.
- Where is Osama most common?
- Osama is densest in Türkiye, where the national register counts about 1 in 264 people carrying it.
- How common is Osama compared with other names?
- In Türkiye, Osama is the 12th most common given name of 294,597 given names recorded there.
- Is Osama a male or female name?
- Osama 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.
- What does the name Osama mean?
- Recorded meaning: Osama är ett arabiskt namn som betyder ’lejon’.
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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, “Osama” — the 12th most common given name in Türkiye. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.