Boy · Old English
Osmund
Say it: OZ-mund
Meaning
From Old English os 'god (a pagan deity)' and mund 'protection'. Equivalent Germanic forms existed on the Continent and in Scandinavia.
Certainscholars agree on this meaning.
Used in Norman England.
Its wave through time
Rare in the records
In the United States
- 18 babies given this name since 1957
- At its height in 1957, about 1 in 269,600 boys
- Fewer than 5 babies a year in 2020
Through the ages
Used by
The family of the name
Other spellings: Osmond
Famous bearers
- St Osmund, bishop of Salisbury
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Where this comes from
- Anglo-Saxon charters, chronicles and church records
- Lives of the saints and early Christian martyrologies
- The Domesday Book (1086) source
- United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source
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