Oskar
2025 SSA
About Oskar
Oskar is to Oscar as Jakob is to Jacob: more distinctive and continental.
Pronounced AHS-kar.
As of October 2026, Oskar ranked #1750 in US births in 2025 SSA, peaked at #1191 in 2016.
Popularity & trends
Data table
| Year | US rank | Births | Per million |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | #1,315 | 134 | 69.8 |
| 2015 | #1,488 | 112 | 58.4 |
| 2016 | #1,191 | 160 | 84.3 |
| 2017 | #1,381 | 128 | 69.2 |
| 2018 | #1,345 | 134 | 73.8 |
| 2019 | #1,377 | 130 | 72.5 |
| 2020 | #1,278 | 144 | 83.4 |
| 2021 | #1,475 | 122 | 69.7 |
| 2022 | #1,377 | 136 | 77.9 |
| 2023 | #1,453 | 125 | 73.1 |
| 2024 | #1,721 | 96 | 55.7 |
| 2025 | #1,750 | 93 | 54.4 |
World rankings
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Oskar on lists
Famous Oskars
- Oskar Homolka
Austrian actor
- Oskar Kokoschka
Austrian expressionistic artist
- Oskar Kolberg
Polish composer, ethnographer, folklorist
- Oskar Osala
Finnish ice hockey player
- Oskar Schlemmer
German Bauhaus artist
- Oskar Schindler
German industrialist credited with saving over 1,000 Jews during the Holocaust
- Oskar Werner
German,Austrian actor
- Oskar Michael (b.2018)
son of TV personalities Nate Berkus And Jeremiah Brent
Oskar in pop culture
- Oskar Stefansson
character in "Sims" series
- Oskar Kokoshka
character on animated series "Hey Arnold!"
- Oskar Schell
main character in novel/film 'Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close'
- Oskar Matzerath
main character in novel/film 'The Tin Drum'
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main character in novel/film 'Let the Right One In'