Oskar
- Meaning:
- Spear of the gods
- Origin:
- Germanic
About the name Oskar
Name of Old English/Norse origin, from 'os' (god) and 'gar' (spear).
Popularity with newborns
Oskar has not appeared on the annual list of the most popular newborn names. That list covers the 50 most common names for each sex, so the name was given to fewer children than the 50th name of the year — not to none.
People with this name in Croatia
267 people in Croatia are called Oskar, according to the 2021 census. That is #971 among all the names in Imenko.
Where the name is found
Oskar is recorded in 8 of Croatia's 21 counties.
Sources
Counts of people living in Croatia come from the Croatian Bureau of Statistics' 2021 census, which suppresses any figure below 10. Yearly birth figures come from its annual list of the most popular newborn names. Meaning, origin, name day and nicknames are curated by Imenko.