Given name & surname
Osei
“an honorable man”
Osei is used as a given name and a surname. One African interpretation is “an honorable man.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One African interpretation is “an honorable man.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is African.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1974. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Osei through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 238
- 238 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1981
- 11 babies
- 2025
- 5
- #13,381 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 5 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 13,381 among boys’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Its largest published annual count for boys was 11 in 1981. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 550 as a first name in 2020; 2,836 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Osei’s family of names
In Greek usage, Osei as a surname is a transliteration of Όσεϊ.
The ring: spellings.
Spellings & scripts 2
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
People named Osei
- Osei KofiGhanaian footballer and priestborn 1940
- Osei TelesfordTrinidadian footballerborn 1983
- Osei SankofaEnglish footballer (born 1985)
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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