Oussama
An Arabic name meaning "lion". In Poland it stays rare: about 100 men carry it, and no boys have been given it in recent years, so meeting one is memorable.
Oussama Pronunciation
What Oussama means
Where Oussama comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Oussama comes from the Arabic word for lion, `usama`. The spelling with `ou` and the doubled `s` is the French and Maghrebi way of writing the sound, common across North Africa and in France. Where a Polish register might list Osama or Usama, the form Oussama points to a francophone route into the name. The short meaning stays fixed underneath the spelling. It means lion.
Arabic keeps several words for that animal, and `usama` sits among them as a proper name rather than a plain noun. So a boy called Oussama carries an old poetic name for the lion, one used in Arabic long before it reached European forms. The lion here is not a badge added later. It is the sense the word held from the start.
Picture the name read from a class register in a Warsaw school, the teacher pausing on the double `s`.
That pause is the whole story of the spelling. A Maghrebi family moved, the paperwork at the urząd took the French form, and the lion stayed. Say the meaning plainly and you are back at the beginning. Oussama, lion, `lew`.
How many people are named Oussama
1 in 205252 men in Poland is named Oussama. 104 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #3355 among male names.
Oussama as a middle name
Oussama is a first name for 104 men in Poland and a middle name for another 6, a 95/5 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 4399th, between Ottokar (6) and Ovie (6).
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#4397 Oto6
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#4398 Ottokar6
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#4399 Oussama6
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#4400 Ovie6
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#4401 Paavo6