Osmān
surname · Latin script
Osmān is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Türkiye than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Ottoman Turkish عثمان (ʿosman). Turkish pronunciation of the Arabic name عُثْمَان (ʕuṯmān). Cognate with Kazakh Оспан (Ospan), Uzbek Usmon, etc.
- USUnited States1 in 46K(measured from records)
- TRTürkiye1 in 264
- ALAlbania1 in 2K
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.
- Türkiye (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 20 (measured from records)
- 1 in 264 (inferred from the name graph)
310,387 people, 2025
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Türkiye
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Osman in TR Türkiye, US United States, SO Somalia.
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 Ottoman Turkish عثمان (ʿosman). Turkish pronunciation of the Arabic name عُثْمَان (ʕuṯmān). Cognate with Kazakh Оспан (Ospan), Uzbek Usmon, etc.
Cited for this meaning 10
- A Handbook of African Names
- Il grande libro dei nomi per bebè. Significato, origini, curiosità. Oltre 7000 nomi per bambine e bambini Significato,…
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- 국립국어원 외래어 표기 용례 자료 (NIKL loanword/foreign-name transcription examples)
- TDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)
Attested across 37 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Osmān 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 | — | 310,387 | 1 in 264 | 310K | Osman | 20 |
| US United States | — | 7,199 | 1 in 46K | 13K | Osman | 19 |
| SE Sweden | — | 4,283 | 1 in 2.4K | 4.3K | — | 4 |
| BR Brazil | — | 1,665 | 1 in 127K | 1.9K | — | 1 |
| AL Albania | — | 1,558 | 1 in 2K | 1.6K | — | 1 |
| DK Denmark | — | 725 | 1 in 8.1K | 1.4K | — | — |
| SI Slovenia | — | 453 | 1 in 4.6K | 453 | — | 2 |
| SO Somalia | #111 | — | — | — | Osman | 8 |
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; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); SURS — resident population given 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).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Osmān mean, and where does it come from?
- From Ottoman Turkish عثمان (ʿosman). Turkish pronunciation of the Arabic name عُثْمَان (ʕuṯmān). Cognate with Kazakh Оспан (Ospan), Uzbek Usmon, etc. Recorded by A Handbook of African Names and Il grande libro dei nomi per bebè. Significato, origini, curiosità. Oltre 7000 nomi per bambine e bambini Significato,… and 8 other sources.
- In which country does Osmān have the most bearers?
- In Türkiye, the national register counted about 310 thousand people named Osmān, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled osman.
- Where is Osmān most common?
- Osmān is densest in Türkiye, where the national register counts about 1 in 264 people carrying it.
- How common is the name Osmān?
- In Türkiye, the national register counted 310,387 people named Osmān in 2025, about 1 in 264 residents.
- How common is Osmān compared with other names?
- In Somalia, Osmān is the 111th most common given name of 718 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/osm%C4%81nThe 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, “Osmān” — the 111th most common given name in Somalia. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.