Given name & surname
Osgood
“a Goth go”
Osgood is used as a given name and a surname. One English interpretation is “a Goth go.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One English interpretation is “a Goth go.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is English.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1915. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Osgood through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 18
- 18 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1918
- 8 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 5 in 1919. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 8 in 1918. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 5,858 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.
Osgood’s family of names
In English usage, Osgood as a surname has a nickname in Ozzy. Osgood has a related form in Usgooae. Osgood has a related form in Uzgooa.
The ring: nicknames and forms.
Nicknames & forms 3
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
People named Osgood
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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