Usama
Osama, also spelt Osamah, Oussama, Usama, and other variants, is an Arabic masculine given name.
- Arabic
Meaning & Origin of Usama
What this name means, where it came from, and how it has traveled across cultures.
Osama, also spelt Osamah, Oussama, Usama, and other variants, is an Arabic masculine given name.
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Cultural Origins (via Behind the Name)
- Arabic
The Story of Usama
American parents first put Usama on the record books as a baby boy name in 1977, with 5 registered babies. Its peak popularity came in 1999, when 24 Usamas were born — ranking #3,279 that year. About 77% of every Usama on record arrived during the 1990s, its defining decade. Usama last appeared in the published SSA data in 2001, with 7 recorded births — it has not charted nationally since. All told, over 176 Americans have carried the name since 1880, from the 1970s to the 2020s.
Popularity Over Time
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Variants & Related Forms of Usama
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Names that sound like Usama
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About the name Usama
Usama is a boy baby name tracked by the U.S. Social Security Administration. It first appeared in SSA records in 1977 and has accumulated 176 births in the dataset. Usama's peak popularity came in 1999 when it ranked #3,279. Use the chart and map above to compare Usama's trajectory across years and U.S. states, or browse the related names section to discover similar choices.
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Data sources
- Birth statistics (counts, ranks, years 1880–2026) — U.S. Social Security Administration . Predictions for years not yet released by SSA are computed by Peek a Name from historical trends; we update with official data as soon as it ships.
- Etymology, cultural origins, and related forms — Behind the Name (used under their public API terms).
- Meaning prose and editorial summary — Wikipedia article extracts, licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 .
- Predicted nationality distribution — Nationalize.io .
- Phonetically similar names — Datamuse .
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