Osmar

Spellings & scripts●

Locally spelled Осмар in RU Russia, UA Ukraine.

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●

Languages●

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◐

Osmar is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• English given name101K records spelled Osmar9 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Brazil, Venezuela, United States, Ecuador

  Languages: English, German, Dutch

  Also written Osmàr, Oşmar, Ósmar

• a separate given name1.2K records spelled Osmar2 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Ecuador, India, Bolivia

  Also written Ósmar

• Lao given name666 records spelled Osmar9 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Laos, United States, Thailand, Bolivia

  Languages: Lao, Thai

  Also written ออสมาร์, ออสมาร, Ösmär, อ๊อสมาร, อ้อสมาร

• Indonesian given name549 records spelled Osmar3 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Indonesia, United States, Malaysia, Paraguay

  Languages: Indonesian, Malay

  Also written Ôsmär

• Swedish given name331 records spelled Osmar7 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Peru, United States, Paraguay, Latvia

  Languages: Swedish, Danish, Norwegian

  Also written Ósmar

42 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●

Osmar 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 Galician, to sniff

  as a word·kaikki.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●

AR datos.gob.ar — nombres.datos.gob.ar per-name lookup (1922–2015) — 91 years between 1922–2015. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

• Osmar Schindlerb. 1867DEGerman painter belonging to the Dresden Academy school of artists. (1867-1927)
• Osmar Donizete Cândidob. 1968BRBrazilian association football player
• Osmar Loss Vieirab. 1975BRBrazilian association football player
• Osmar Aparecido de Azevedob. 1980BRBrazilian association football player
• Osmar Ferreyrab. 1983ARArgentine footballer
• Osmar Bravob. 1984NIboxer
• Osmar Franciscob. 1987BRBrazilian association football player
• Osmar Ibáñezb. 1988ESSpanish association football player
• Júnior Alonsob. 1993PYnot in their usual nameParaguayan association football player
• Osmar Olverab. 2004MXMexican diver

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●

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 488 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Osmar?

We estimate roughly 88 thousand people bear Osmar (counting its spellings and scripts) across 8 countries in our records.

In which country does Osmar have the most bearers?

Osmar is most frequently recorded in Argentina, where it is most often spelled osmar.

How common is Osmar compared with other names?

In Argentina, Osmar is the 463rd most common given name of 517,176 given names recorded there.

Is Osmar a male or female name?

Osmar 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 Osmar mean?

Recorded meaning: alter deutscher männl.