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/).
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.
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.
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.
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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Subcarpathian914 boys born+19%
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Łódź953 boys born+18%
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Świętokrzyskie400 boys born+13%
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Lublin731 boys born+11%
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Warmian-Masurian506 boys born+10%
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Opole321 boys born+9%
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Podlaskie460 boys born+9%
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Silesian1,551 boys born+7%
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Lubusz333 boys born+5%
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Lesser Poland1,474 boys born+2%
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Kuyavian-Pomeranian708 boys born+1%
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Masovian2,107 boys born−7%
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Lower Silesian923 boys born−8%
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Greater Poland1,232 boys born−10%
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West Pomeranian487 boys born−10%
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Pomeranian701 boys born−25%
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).
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94
14,569Edmund
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95
13,771Lech
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9613,343Oskar
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97
13,321Lucjan
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98
12,312Emil
When Oskar celebrates name day
Oskar appears 1 time in the Polish name day calendar. The main date is 3 February.