Osborne

Locally spelled Thomas in IN India and Tomas 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.

Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.

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

• Ozzy
• Ozzie
• Cosmo
• Austin
• Hendrix
• Porter
• Ozias
• Oswald
• Osmond
• Salem
• Orson
• Roscoe

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.

Osborne is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• a separate name2 spellings in the group

  Also written Osborn-E

• Polish surname20 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Poland, United Kingdom, Russia

  Languages: Polish, Russian, Czech

  Also written Osborn, Осборн, Osbourne, Осборне, Озбарн

61 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.

Osborne is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

• In Irish, First settling in Cos. Waterford and Tipperary about 1550, families of this name became both influential and numerous, as the large number which appear in testamentary records, etc. testify. It is now found in all the provinces

  as a name·The Surnames of Ireland

• In Croatian, britanski dramatičar i filmski producent; s njim započinje pokret »gnjevnih mladih ljudi« u britanskoj drami ( Osvrni se gnjevno )

  as a word·Hrvatski jezični portal (HJP) dictionary export

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.

• Henry Fairfield Osbornb. 1857USnot in their usual nameAmerican geologist (1857–1935)
• Margaret Osborne duPontb. 1918USAmerican tennis player (1918–2012)
• John Osborneb. 1929GBEnglish playwright (1929-1994)
• Robert Osborneb. 1932USAmerican film historian and actor (1932–2017)
• Barrie M. Osborneb. 1944USAmerican film producer
• Holmes Osborneb. 1947USAmerican actor
• Joan Osborneb. 1962USAmerican singer and songwriter
• Kent Osborneb. 1969USAmerican screenwriter and actor
• Mark Osborneb. 1970USAmerican film director, writer, producer and animator
• George Osborneb. 1971GBBritish politician (b. 1971)

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).

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

What does the name Osborne mean, and where does it come from?

An English surname transferred from the given name. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).

What are other forms of the name Osborne?

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

How do you pronounce Osborne?

A machine transcription gives /ˈɔzˌbɔɹn/ (IPA) for English.

In which country does Osborne have the most bearers?

In the United States, the national register counted about 756 thousand people named Thomas, more than in any other country we hold.

How common is the name Osborne?

In Finland, the national register counted 42 people named Osborne, about 1 in 133 thousand residents.

How common is Osborne compared with other names?

In the United States, Osborne is the 441st most common surname of 6,282,806 surnames recorded there.