Osca
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in Spanish: feminine singular of osco
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/oska/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Osca is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Spain than in any other country.
- ARArgentina1 in 548K(measured from records)
- ESSpain1 in 106K
- TZTanzania≈1 in 130K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Spain (measured from records)
- Sources
- 66 (measured from records)
- 1 in 106K (inferred from the name graph)
471 people
Highest-authority source
Spain
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
feminine singular of osco
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
How Osca is read(measured from records)
Osca is one spelling over 4 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Spanish70%
feminine singular of osco
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- English8.2%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Osca in English.
- Catalan8.0%
notch, nick
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Swahili7.7%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Osca in Swahili.
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Osca 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | 471 | 1 in 106K | 471 | Osca | 66 |
| TZ Tanzania | ≈450 est. | ≈1 in 130K | — | Osca | 12 |
| NG Nigeria | ≈160 est. | ≈1 in 1.3M | — | Osca | 7 |
| AR Argentina | 83 | 1 in 548K | 83 | Osca | 31 |
| BO Bolivia | ≈80 est. | ≈1 in 146K | — | Osca | 7 |
| PE Peru | ≈79 est. | ≈1 in 402K | — | Osca | 21 |
| DO Dominican Republic | ≈34 est. | ≈1 in 309K | — | Osca | 6 |
471 people counted by INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos). 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: RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal). 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)
Osca 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.
In Latin, an ancient city in Hispania Tarraconensis, now Huesca
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Galician, spiral notch in the spindle
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Óscar Carmonab. 1869PTnot in their usual name11th Portuguese president (1926-1951)
- Óscar Arnulfo Romerob. 1917SVnot in their usual namefourth archbishop of San Salvador (1917–1980)
- Óscar Ariasb. 1941CRnot in their usual namePresident of Costa Rica (1986–1990, 2006–2010)
- Óscar Bergerb. 1946GTnot in their usual namePresident of Guatemala (2004–2008)
- Nicanor Duarteb. 1956PYnot in their usual name46.° President of Paraguay
- Rey Mysterio Jrb. 1974USnot in their usual nameAmerican professional wrestler
- Óscar Jaenadab. 1975ESnot in their usual nameSpanish actor
- Oscar Isaacb. 1979GTnot in their usual nameGuatemalan-American actor
- Óscar Cardozob. 1983PYnot in their usual nameParaguayan footballer
- Óscar Minguezab. 1999ESnot in their usual nameSpanish 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)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 14 sources across 9 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 471 | #8,426 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 471 | #8,419 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 83 | — |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Osca mean, and where does it come from?
- feminine singular of osco Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Osca?
- A machine transcription gives /oska/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- In which country does Osca have the most bearers?
- In Spain, the national register counted about 471 people named Osca, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled osca.
- Where is Osca most common?
- Osca is densest in Spain, where the national register counts about 1 in 106 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Osca?
- In Spain, the national register counted 471 people named Osca, about 1 in 106 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Osca?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/oscaThe 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, “Osca”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.