Oskars

given name · Latvian · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Oskars is a given name, with more bearers in Latvia than in any other country, where it is the 62nd most common given name. It appears chiefly in Latvian and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Amerikas Kinoakadēmijas (American Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, dib.

rarermore common
  • LVLatvia1 in 297◐
  • ISIceland1 in 15K
  • EEEstonia1 in 52K

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈6.5K ●

across 6 countries

Sources
78 ●

1.8K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 297 ◐

Latvia

Meaning & origin●

recorded in Latvian

Amerikas Kinoakadēmijas (American Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, dib. 1927) balva par gada labākajiem sasniegumiem kinomākslā - apzeltīta vīrieša statuete, ko veidojis Sedriks Gibonss

Sources 1

  • Tēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)

Attested across 20 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Oskars is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
LV Latvia#626,343△1.3K rec.1 in 2976.3KOskars78
GB United Kingdom—328166 rec.—listedOskars45
FI Finland—1904 rec.—170Oskars2
US United States—130110 rec.——Oskars49
EE Estonia—8124 rec.—22Oskars5
SE Sweden—60△8 rec.1 in 170K60Oskars12
RU Russia—5351 rec.——Oskars12
NO Norway—3930 rec.—314Oskars10
PE Peru—3633 rec.——Oskars8
IE Ireland—2825 rec.——Oskars11
DK Denmark—25—1 in 235K25——
PL Poland—25—1 in 1.5M25——

Roughly 6.3K people in Latvia bear this name (about 1 in 297). 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●

  • Latvian10K82%
  • English5554%
  • Norwegian Bokmål3143%
  • Finnish1992%
  • German1361%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Latvian10,09382%
English5554%
Norwegian Bokmål3143%
Finnish1992%
German1361%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Oskars is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English given name1.3K records spelled Oskars12 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Norway, Latvia, United Kingdom, United States

    Languages: English, Norwegian Bokmål, German

    Also written Óskars

  • Russian given name101 records spelled Oskars5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Latvia, Russia, Ukraine

    Languages: Russian, Ukrainian

    Also written Оскарс

  • Croatian given name22 records spelled Oskars8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Latvia

    Languages: Croatian, Serbian

    Also written Оскарс

33 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Oskars is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Latvian, Vīrieša vārds

    as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)

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●

0204060201020152020

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Oskars in SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023), Sweden, 2007–2020
Yearrecords
200710
200811
200918
201020
201121
201224
201323
201427
201531
201633
201736
201833
201936
202042

SE SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) — 14 years between 2007–2020. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

1850190019502000Oskars Voits, b. 1866Oskars Dankers, b. 1883Oskars Stroks, b. 1892Oskars Jankus, b. 1905Oskars Kastēns, b. 1971Oskars Kļava, b. 1983Oskars Bārtulis, b. 1987Oskars Melbārdis, b. 1988Oskars Cibuļskis, b. 1988Oskars Batņa, b. 1995

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 19 sources across 13 countries.

Official registers attesting Oskars
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
LV LatviaPMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register)—6.3K—
LV LatviaPMLP — Personvārdu meklētājs (per-name population-register lookup)—6.3K#67
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—314#3,438
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—170#3,813
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—60#12,110
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)202042—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)201936—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)201736—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)201833—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)201633—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)201531—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)201427—

Reference works 2

  • Wikipedia given-name 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 · 43 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Oskars?
We estimate roughly 6.5 thousand people bear Oskars (counting its spellings and scripts) across 6 countries in our records.
In which country does Oskars have the most bearers?
We estimate about 6.3 thousand people bear Oskars in Latvia, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled oskars.
Where is Oskars most common?
Oskars is densest in Latvia, where the national register counts about 1 in 297 people carrying it.
How common is Oskars compared with other names?
In Latvia, Oskars is the 62nd most common given name of 17,921 given names recorded there.
Is Oskars a male or female name?
Oskars 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 Oskars mean?
Recorded meaning: Amerikas Kinoakadēmijas (American Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, dib.
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

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, “Oskars” — the 62nd most common given name in Latvia. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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