Osman
given name · Latin script
Meaning: from the name stem Ans-/Os-/Osch- + -mann
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/os̪man̪/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Osman is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Türkiye than in any other country, where it is the 15th most common given name.
- TRTürkiye1 in 264(measured from records)
- SDSudan≈1 in 368
- CYCyprus≈1 in 458
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Osman itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Türkiye (measured from records)
- #314 (measured from records)
- 5 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 308 (measured from records)
- 1 in 264 (inferred from the name graph)
310,387 people, 2025
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Türkiye
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Osama in EG Egypt, SA Saudi Arabia, JO Jordan and Usama in PK Pakistan.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
from the name stem Ans-/Os-/Osch- + -mann
Sources 1
- Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
Attested across 9 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Osman counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TR Türkiye | #15 | 310,387 | 1 in 264 | 310K | Osman | 155 |
| PK Pakistan | #228 | ≈260,000 est. | ≈1 in 894 | listed | Usama | 123 |
| EG Egypt | #52 | ≈190,000 est. | ≈1 in 547 | listed | Osama | 188 |
| SD Sudan | #3 | ≈120,000 est. | ≈1 in 368 | 1 | Osman | 78 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | #47 | ≈46,000 est. | ≈1 in 744 | listed | Osama | 182 |
| JO Jordan | #100 | ≈42,000 est. | ≈1 in 259 | — | Osama | 123 |
| CY Cyprus | #20 | ≈2,800 est. | ≈1 in 458 | — | Osman | 31 |
310,387 people counted by TÜİK NIP — most used given names, 2025. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: TÜİK NIP — most used given names; Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Osman is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
No special meaning, comes from Turkish Sultanic
as a nameA Handbook of African Names
In Turkish, a male given name which refers to Osman Bey, the founder of the Ottoman Empire
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Turkish, 1. Bir tür kuş veya ejderha.2. Hz. Muhammet'in damadı, üçüncü halife. 3. Osmanlı İmparatorluğu'nun kurucusu ve ilk hükümdarı.
as a wordTDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)
In Swedish, Osman är en form av det arabiska Othman som betyder ’trapp’ (fågelarten). Osman i (1258–1323/24) grundade det osmanska riket i Anatolien i nuvarande Turkiet.
as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
In English, Turkish emir, founder of Ottoman
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Osman Ib. 1258TRfounder of the Ottoman Empire (died 1323/4)
- Osman IIb. 1604TR16th Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (1618–1622)
- Osman IIIb. 1699TR25th Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (1754–1757)
- Usman dan Fodiob. 1754NGnot in their usual namefounder of the Sokoto Caliphate
- Osman Pazvantoğlub. 1758BGOttoman rebel
- Osman Nuri Pashab. 1832TROttoman general (1832–1900)
- Osman Hamdi Beyb. 1842TROttoman statesman, academic and artist (1842-1910)
- Asaf Jah VII of Hyderabadb. 1886INnot in their usual nameLast Monarch of the Kingdom of Hyderabad (1886-1967)
- Osman Kavalab. 1957FRTurkish businessperson and philanthropist (born 1957)
- Osman Bukarib. 1998GHGhanaian 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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 126 sources across 60 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| TR Türkiye | TÜİK NIP — most used given names | 2025 | 310K | #13 |
Reference works 11
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- Hoffman, Polish Surnames: Origins and Meanings (2nd ed., 2012)
- Тахиров, Речник на турските лични имена в България
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Osman mean, and where does it come from?
- from the name stem Ans-/Os-/Osch- + -mann Recorded by Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung.
- In which country does Osman have the most bearers?
- In Türkiye, the national register counted about 310 thousand people named Osman, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled osman.
- Where is Osman most common?
- Osman is densest in Türkiye, where the national register counts about 1 in 264 people carrying it.
- How do you pronounce Osman?
- A machine transcription gives /os̪man̪/ (IPA) for Turkish.
- Is Osman a male or female name?
- Osman 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 are other forms of the name Osman?
- In the etymology graph, Ousmane is a form of the same name in other languages.
- How common is the name Osman?
- In Türkiye, the national register counted 310,387 people named Osman in 2025, about 1 in 264 residents.
- How common is Osman compared with other names?
- In Türkiye, Osman is the 15th most common given name of 264,080 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/osmanThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
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, “Osman” — the 15th most common given name in Türkiye. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.