Óskar
This accented spelling is almost nonexistent in Poland: just eight people carry it, and most Poles have never met one. It's a Germanic name at root, from words meaning "god's spear".
Óskar Pronunciation
Óskar is pronounced OOS-kahr (/ˈuskar/).
What Óskar means
Where Óskar comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Óskar begins with two Germanic words. Os meant a god, and gar meant a spear. Joined, they give the sense god's spear, in Polish boża włócznia.
There is a second reading, and it arrived later. Macpherson's Ossian poems gave Europe a hero named Oscar, an Irish warrior whose name splits into os, deer, and cara, friend. That deer friend meaning traveled with the poems. Napoleon loved them. He stood as godfather to the future Oscar I of Sweden, born in 1799, and chose the name for him. From that Swedish king the form spread across Scandinavia and back into Poland as Oskar.
Two roots, two meanings. One says spear, one says deer. A Polish class register on the first day of school still lists the boy as Oskar, without the accent that marks the older spelling óskar.
How many people are named Óskar
1 in 2668274 men in Poland is named Óskar. 8 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #19861 among male names.
Óskar's popularity over time
Fewer than 2 boys were given the name in 2025. It has been stable for a decade.
Óskar as a middle name
Óskar is a first name for 8 men in Poland and a middle name for another 3, a 73/27 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 7058th, between Ólafur (3) and Øyvind (3).
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#7058 Óskar3
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