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Baby name
Oscar
Boy
Origin of the name
Oscar spread across Europe in the 18th century through the poems of Ossian, in which he is one of the heroes. Oscar Wilde made it famous in the English-speaking world.
Classic name
213,098births since 1880
2000sgeneration
No. 118rank at its peak, in 2006
Where babies named Oscar are born
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The darker the blue, the more common Oscar is in the state, compared with its births. White: no births published that year.
Where it is most popular
Compared with the national average, Oscar is most common in Texas (2.5 times), Arizona (2.2) and California (2.2), taking into account all births in each state since 1910.
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