Meaning & origin
A reliable meaning for Oshin isn’t established in our sources yet. Rather than guess, we show what is recorded: how the name is used, how often, and the names it’s connected to.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 2019. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Oshin through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 29
- 18 boys · 11 girls
- Most popular year
- 2024
- 7 babies
- 2025
- 6
- #11,649 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 6 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 11,649 among boys’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 221 as a first name in 2020; 218 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.
Oshin’s family of names
In Manx usage, Oshin shares a linguistic root with the Irish form Oisín. In Manx usage, Oshin has a conventional equivalent in the English form Ossian.
The ring: across languages.
Across languages 2
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Oshin
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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