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Oskar

The name carries an old double sense: "god's spear" in one reading, "deer friend" in another. It sits around 140th today and goes only to boys, familiar enough to ring a bell without turning up in every classroom.

Oskar Pronunciation

Oskar is pronounced OS-kahr (/ˈɔskar/).

Related names
Óscar
Alive in 2025
79,062
Newborns 2025
1,825
National rank
#141
Next name day
3 February
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What Oskar means

Where Oskar comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.

Oskar reaches Polish from Slavic roots, and this site sets its origin there rather than in the northern lands the name later crossed. Two readings travel with it. One takes Oskar as "deer friend", the other as "god's spear", and neither is a single settled root. Both were fastened to the name across long use rather than born with it.

The Polish calendar gives Oskar his name-day on the third of February. It honors Saint Oskar, born around 801 near the abbey at Corbie, who set out for Denmark in 827 to preach. Read a first-grade class register on that morning, and an Oskar will usually answer.

The name has stayed common among Polish boys. Of its two old senses, "god's spear" is the one still repeated.

When Oskar celebrates name day

Oskar appears 1 time in the Polish name day calendar, 1 of them as a main name, the first on 3 February.

Next name day
3 February
Wednesday in 2027
Next one in 146 days
Name days

The days Polish calendars list this name on. By custom you celebrate one of them, usually the first after your birthday.

How many people are named Oskar

1 in 270 men in Poland is named Oskar. 79,062 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #141 among male names.

People with the name Oskar 2019 → 2025
79,062 +11,755 since 2019
2020 68,656 +1,349
2021 70,944 +2,288
2022 73,209 +2,265
2023 75,372 +2,163
2024 77,197 +1,825
2025 79,062 +1,865

Oskar's popularity over time

1,825 boys were given the name in 2025, ranking #45 among newborns. It has been stable for a decade.

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1,825 newborns with the name Oskar in 2025
national rank #45 that year

Where Oskar is most popular

Oskar is most popular in Subcarpathian, 19% above the national average (914 boys born 2019–2025), followed by Łódź (+18%) and Świętokrzyskie (+13%). It is least common in Pomeranian and Greater Poland, 25% and 10% below average respectively.

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Oskar as a middle name

Oskar is a first name for 79,062 men in Poland and a middle name for another 13,343, an 86/14 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 96th, between Lech (13,771) and Lucjan (13,321).

As a first name
79,062
As a middle name
13,343
first name 86% middle name 14%
Middle-name ranking men

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