Oskar

Locally spelled Oscar in AR Argentina, US United States, MX Mexico and 5 more and Аскар in FI Finland.

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.

• German:/ˈɔskaʁ/●(recorded in a dictionary) from Wiktionary
• Polish:/ˈɔs.kar/●(recorded in a dictionary) from Wiktionary
• Swedish:/ɔ˥˧s̪ka˩r/○(machine-generated) model-generated

Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.

Attested across 19 languages in the etymology graph.

Oskar is one spelling over 5 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.

• German29%

  ) Oscar: männl. Vom., der auf den Namen einer Gestalt aus »The Works o f

  as a name·DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen

• Polish14%

  No dictionary in our sources glosses Oskar in Polish.

• Spanish12%

  No dictionary in our sources glosses Oskar in Spanish.

• Swedish12%

  No dictionary in our sources glosses Oskar in Swedish.

• English10%

  German, a divine spearman

  as a name·Baby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…

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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.

Names that people choosing a name often weigh against Oskar, most often first. They share a style rather than an origin.

• Lukas
• Jakob
• Nils
• Erik
• Niklas

From the names suggested together in public name-advice forums, in English. A list of what people consider, not a measure of how common any name is.

Oskar is also recorded as 7 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• German given name11 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Germany, United States, Sweden, Australia

  Languages: German, English, Dutch

  Also written Óskar, Öskar, Óskąŕ, Ôskâr, Ôsķár

• Swedish given name8 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Sweden, Denmark, Norway, United States

  Languages: Swedish, Norwegian, Danish

  Also written Óskar, Öskar

• Finnish given name7 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Sweden, Estonia, Finland, Latvia

  Languages: Finnish, Estonian

  Also written Óskar, Õskar, Oskár, Ôskär, Òskar

• Spanish given name22 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Mexico, France, Spain, Colombia

  Languages: Spanish, French, Portuguese

  Also written Óskar, Oskár, Öskär, Osk'Ar, Oskâr

• Indonesian given name4 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Indonesia, Malaysia, Sweden, United States

  Languages: Indonesian, Malay

  Also written Óskar

• a separate name4 spellings in the group

  Also written Osḳar, Oskár, Óskar

• a separate given name4 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in India, Norway, Sweden, United States

  Also written Óskar, Oskár, Ośkar

50 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Oskar is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

• In Kurdish, Spear, also a variant representing upright character and determination

  as a word·kurdi.sh Kurdish personal names dictionary

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.

• Oskar Kokoschkab. 1886ATAustrian dramatic, painter and writer (1886–1980)
• Oskar Schlemmerb. 1888DEGerman painter, sculptor, designer and choreographer (1888–1943)
• Oskar Schindlerb. 1908DEGerman industrialist and Holocaust rescuer (1908–1974)

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).

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.

89 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 39 countries.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Which countries have the most people named Oskar?

Mondonomo estimates about 595 thousand people named Oscar in Mexico, more than in any other country we hold. After it come Colombia, Argentina, United States and Spain; the country table on this page ranks them.

Where is Oskar most common?

Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Oskar is densest in Sweden — about 1 in 222 people — even though Mexico holds more of our records for it.

What are other forms of the name Oskar?

In the etymology graph, Oscar is a form of the same name in other languages.

Is Oskar a male or female name?

Oskar is a male name. National registers that list it by sex list it as male: Poland (dane.gov.pl, 2026), Norway (SSB), Finland (DVV) and Denmark (Danmarks Statistik), among others.

How common is the name Oskar?

In Poland, the national register counted 80,962 people named Oskar in 2026, about 1 in 473 residents.

How common is Oskar compared with other names?

In Mexico, Oskar is the 49th most common given name of 193,485 given names recorded there.

What does the name Oskar mean?

Recorded meaning: ) Oscar: männl. Vom., der auf den Namen einer Gestalt aus »The Works o f

How do you pronounce Oskar?

It depends on the language: in German /ˈɔskaʁ/ (Wiktionary); in Polish /ˈɔs.kar/ (Wiktionary); in Swedish /ɔ˥˧s̪ka˩r/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.