Oskâr

given name · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Oskâr is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Poland than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from English Oscar, from Middle Irish Oscar.

rarermore common
  • SESweden1 in 222(measured from records)
  • ISIceland1 in 329
  • PLPoland1 in 473

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Poland (measured from records)

80,962 people, 2026

Sources
161 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 222 (inferred from the name graph)

Sweden

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Oskar in SE Sweden, NO Norway, FI Finland and Óskar in IS Iceland.

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)

Derivation of Oskâr: each step is the form the one above it came from.
Oskâr
  1. EnglishOscar(measured from records)
  2. Middle IrishOscar(measured from records)

Borrowed from English Oscar, from Middle Irish Oscar.

Sources 4

Attested across 19 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Oskâr 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.

Where Oskâr is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
PL Poland—80,9621 in 47381K—1
SE Sweden—45,9381 in 22246KOskar45
FI Finland—6,7081 in 83117KOskar10
NO Norway—6,1481 in 88922KOskar17
DK Denmark—6,0621 in 9686.1K——
IS Iceland#2441,0671 in 3291.1KÓskar29

80,962 people counted by dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20), 2026. 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: dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry). 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).

Evidence(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Oskâr under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Oskâr mean, and where does it come from?
Borrowed from English Oscar, from Middle Irish Oscar. Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names and DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen and 2 other sources.
Is Oskâr a male or female name?
Oskâr 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.
In which country does Oskâr have the most bearers?
In Poland, the national register counted about 81 thousand people named Oskâr, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Oskâr most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Oskâr is densest in Sweden — about 1 in 222 people — even though Poland holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Oskâr?
In Poland, the national register counted 80,962 people named Oskâr in 2026, about 1 in 473 residents.
How common is Oskâr compared with other names?
In Iceland, Oskâr is the 244th most common given name of 3,704 given names recorded there.

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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, “Oskâr” — the 244th most common given name in Iceland. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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