as a Last Name
- 1,174
- people in the U.S. have this name View all people named Oscar
Meaning & Origins
Scandinavian and English: from the personal name Oscar, which is of Gaelic origin, composed of the elements os ‘deer’ + cara ‘friend’. The personal name owes its popularity in Scandinavia and elsewhere to the Ossian poems of James MacPherson (1760), which enjoyed a great vogue in the latter part of the 18th century.
| 20,441st in the U.S. for 2011 |
Nicknames & variations
Quick facts
- Hundreds
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 1,174
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- Alaska
- has the most people named Oscar per capita
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