Oz
A Hebrew name meaning "strength". In Poland it barely registers: around 45 men carry it and no boys have been given it in recent years, so meeting one would stay with you.
Oz Pronunciation
Oz is pronounced OS (/ɔs/).
What Oz means
Where Oz comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Oz comes from the Hebrew עֹז, a word meaning strength. In the Hebrew Bible it names a quality rather than a man, and it appears in Psalm 29, where the LORD gives oz to his people and blesses them with peace. So the name states its meaning without a middleman. A child called Oz wears the Polish siła and the word moc in two letters.
The name stays close to that root among Jewish families, and modern Hebrew keeps it as a masculine given name used in Israel today. It takes no diminutive. There is no cross-gender twin, no softened ending. Oz is Oz.
Hebrew names often stretch into longer forms with room to shorten. This one starts short. There is little left to trim.
On a Polish class register the name spells itself in a single glance. It sits among longer entries and holds. The Hebrew root means strength, and the name says nothing more.
How many people are named Oz
1 in 474360 men in Poland is named Oz. 45 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #5727 among male names.
Oz as a middle name
Oz is a first name for 45 men in Poland and a middle name for another 10, an 82/18 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 3163rd, between Otokar (10) and Pankajkumar (10).