Osbourne
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Ozzy, rock singer
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ɑzbɒɹn/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Osbourne is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 52K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 130K
- KNSt. Kitts & Nevis1 in 4.5K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 263 (measured from records)
- 1 in 4.5K (inferred from the name graph)
≈5,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
St. Kitts & Nevis
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Ozzy, rock singer
Sources 1
- Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
Where in the world(measured from records)
Osbourne 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | — | ≈5,000 est. | ≈1 in 277K | — | Osbourne | 2 |
| US United States | — | 2,563 | 1 in 130K | 2.6K | Osbourne | 263 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈1,300 est. | ≈1 in 52K | 1.7K | Osbourne | 138 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈430 est. | ≈1 in 88K | — | Osbourne | 95 |
| GH Ghana | — | ≈420 est. | ≈1 in 69K | — | Osbourne | 5 |
| JM Jamaica | #451 | ≈320 est. | ≈1 in 8.9K | — | Osbourne | 12 |
| GY Guyana | — | 14 | 1 in 54K | 14 | — | 2 |
| KN St. Kitts & Nevis | — | 12 | 1 in 4.5K | 12 | — | 5 |
| VC St. Vincent & Grenadines | — | 3 | 1 in 34K | 8 | — | — |
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 — Surname Frequency 2010; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025; St Kitts & Nevis — Register of Electors 2026; Electoral Office of St Vincent & the Grenadines — Final Voters List (Nov 2025). 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Lloyd Osbourneb. 1868USAmerican diplomat (1868–1947)
- Ozzy Osbourneb. 1948GBEnglish musician and television personality (1948–2025)
- Sharon Osbourneb. 1952GBBritish-American television personality
- Jessica Osbourneb. 1972GBdaughter of Ozzy Osbourne
- Louis Osbourneb. 1975son of Ozzy Osbourne
- Aimee Osbourneb. 1983GBEnglish actress and singer
- Paolo Maldini Osbourneb. 1984GBBritish singer and actress
- Jack Osbourneb. 1985GBBritish actor
- Isaiah Osbourneb. 1987GBEnglish footballer (born 1987)
- Ode Osbourneb. 1992USJamaican mixed martial arts (MMA) fighter
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)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 23 sources across 10 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 2.6K | #12,156 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 2.4K | #12,526 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.9K | #14,658 |
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 1.7K | #4,192 |
| GY Guyana | Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025 | 2025 | 14 | #611 |
| KN St. Kitts & Nevis | St Kitts & Nevis — Register of Electors 2026 | 2026 | 12 | #170 |
| VC St. Vincent & Grenadines | Electoral Office of St Vincent & the Grenadines — Final Voters List (Nov 2025) | 2025 | 3 | #259 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
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 Osbourne mean, and where does it come from?
- Ozzy, rock singer Recorded by Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names.
- How do you pronounce Osbourne?
- A machine transcription gives /ɑzbɒɹn/ (IPA) for English.
- What are other forms of the name Osbourne?
- In the etymology graph, Osborne is a form of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Osbourne have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 5.0 thousand people named Osbourne in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled osbourne.
- Where is Osbourne most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Osbourne is densest in St. Kitts & Nevis — about 1 in 4.5 thousand people — even though China holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Osbourne?
- In the United States, the national register counted 2,563 people named Osbourne in 2010, about 1 in 130 thousand residents.
- How common is Osbourne compared with other names?
- In Jamaica, Osbourne is the 451st most common surname of 50,451 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/osbourneThe 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, “Osbourne” — the 451st most common surname in Jamaica. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.