Osanna
given name · Latin script
Meaning: from Hebrew hôšîʿā-nnāʾ 'save, please'; through liturgical exclamation
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/oʊzænə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Osanna is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Italy than in any other country.
- GYGuyana1 in 188K(measured from records)
- UYUruguay≈1 in 347K
- ITItaly≈1 in 357K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Osanna itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Italy (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 80 (measured from records)
- 1 in 188K (inferred from the name graph)
≈180 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Guyana
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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 Hebrew hôšîʿā-nnāʾ 'save, please'; through liturgical exclamation
Sources 1
- Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
Attested across 12 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Osanna 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IT Italy | ≈180 est. | ≈1 in 357K | — | Osanna | 10 |
| US United States | 140 | 1 in 2.4M | 139 | Osanna | 80 |
| TR Türkiye | ≈93 est. | ≈1 in 880K | — | Osanna | 7 |
| FR France | ≈45 est. | ≈1 in 1.5M | 3 | — | — |
| GE Georgia | 43as ოსანნა | 1 in 93K | 43 | Osanna | 6 |
| UY Uruguay | ≈10 est. | ≈1 in 347K | 1 | — | — |
| GY Guyana | 4 | 1 in 188K | 4 | Osanna | 1 |
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: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Georgia PSDA/SDA civil-registry name statistics (per-token API); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025; INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); Montevideo Open Data — Nombres por año y sexo (1940–2012). 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)
Osanna is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
Plegaria
as a name25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado
In Akan, name of a month, about August; s. osram. Os. fi a, ua okom agu. pr. 2772
as a wordDictionary of the Asante and Fante Language called Tshi (Chwee, Twi)
In got, romanization of 𐍉𐍃𐌰𐌽𐌽𐌰
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latvian, Skaitīt lūgšanu, ļoti lūgt
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
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)
- Osanna of Mantuab. 1449ITItalian Dominican tertiary
- Osanna Chiub. 1989CNHong Kong artist
- Hosanna Kabakorob. 1992USnot in their usual nameAmerican model
- Osanna Fantozzi MicaliITItalian restorer
- Osanna SarkisyanRUPh.D. Lomonosov Moscow State University 1983
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)
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.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 16 sources across 10 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 8 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 7 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 4 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 4 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 3 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 3 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 2 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 1 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1911 | — | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1901 | — | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1891 | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Osanna mean, and where does it come from?
- from Hebrew hôšîʿā-nnāʾ 'save, please'; through liturgical exclamation Recorded by Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung.
- What are other forms of the name Osanna?
- In the etymology graph, Hosanna is a form of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Osanna?
- A machine transcription gives /oʊzænə/ (IPA) for English.
- Is Osanna a male or female name?
- Osanna is a female 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 Osanna have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 175 people named Osanna in Italy, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled osanna.
- Where is Osanna most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Osanna is densest in Guyana — about 1 in 188 thousand people — even though Italy holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Osanna?
- In the United States, the national register counted 140 people named Osanna in 2020, about 1 in 2.4 million residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/osannaThe 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, “Osanna”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.