Osama
A boys’ name of Arabic origin, meaning lion.
Babies a year
9
England and Wales, 2025
Rarity
Very rare
among names in use
US popularity
—
outside the top 1000
UK popularity
#2440
9 babies
Osama by the numbers
In 2025, 9 babies in England and Wales were named Osama. In the US, 13 were, though that figure is from 2017, the most recent full year we hold.
For the size of the two countries, it is given several times more often in England and Wales than in the US.
Its American peak was 65 babies in 1999, so it is a 1990s name that has since fallen a long way.
Spelled almost the same
Other names in the records within a letter or two of Osama. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.
Other names that mean a lion
Like Osama, each of these has a lion in its meaning. Different names, different histories, the same idea.
Names about as common as Osama
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