Osiris

boys’ name · 80%girls’ name · 20%Comeback · modern nameCompare

Osiris is ranked 976th among boys in 2024 (230 births). Its best rank was 917th, in 2020.

Rank in 2024: #976down 33 from 2023
Births in 2024: 2300.01% of boys
Peak year: 2020244 births
Best rank: #917in 2020
Since 1970: 4,259people given the name

Babies named Osiris, by year of birthboysgirls

The story in the numbers

3,391 boys have been named Osiris in the United States since 1970, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2020, with 244 births.

This is a comeback. After an early peak the name fell to a fraction of its former share, and it has been climbing again for the past decade.

Half of everyone given the name was born by 2017, and the 2010s alone account for 35%. It has spent 5 of 145 years in the top 1,000.

Osiris is used for both sexes: 20% of its bearers are girls (868), most of them born around 2006.

Rank among boys, year by year

Higher on the chart = more popularrank (gaps = outside the top 1,000)

By decade

Decade	boys named Osiris
1970s	73
1980s	90
1990s	295
2000s	540
2010s	1,203
2020s	1,190

In 2020, its biggest year

Osiris was the 917th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 2020 were Liam, Noah, Oliver, Elijah and William. See all of 2020.

Names that rose and fell with Osiris

Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.

What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.