Given name
Oseias
Oseias is a masculine given name from Hebrew. It is used in Portuguese.
Meaning & origin
How it developed
From Latin Osee, from Ancient Greek Ὡσηέ, from Hebrew.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 2016. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Oseias through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 333
- 333 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2017
- 118 babies
- 2025
- 40
- #3,072 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- −28%
- Easing
Where it’s given
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 40 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 3,072 among boys’ names. Average annual use for boys was 28.4% lower in 2021–2025 than in 2016–2020. Its largest published annual count for boys was 118 in 2017. In 2025, Texas had the largest reported state-level birth count for boys with this name (8).
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
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