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The first name 
Ozzy

Ozzy is a male first name. In very rare cases it is also used for girls.

Ozzy is a well-known but special name!

Ozzy is a well-known name in the US, but is still special. It is currently only given to every ten thousandth boy, and therefore ranks at 1124 in the SmartGenius statistics. This means there are 1,123 boys names that are more common, but also tens of thousands that are much rarer. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Ozzy.

You won't believe all there is 
to discover about the name
 
Ozzy

Ozzy -
keeping with the times

Ozzy is a fairly recent phenomenon. In the past, the name wasn't really on the radar of expectant parents. Then, unexpectedly, Ozzy cried out for attention, reaching its peak in popularity at #543 in our SmartGenius statistics in the year 2022. People over 50 probably didn't have classmates named Ozzy, for there were many years in which not a single parent chose this first name for their son. Although it also has never been in the top 100 of most popular first names, Ozzy seems to have been in vogue for a while, especially since the beginning of the new millennium.

In years where the graph has no value, the name Ozzy was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.

Ozzy -
special, but at home in many states

You may not know anyone named Ozzy, but there’s a good chance you live in the same state as someone with that name. In fact, 33 states are home to men and boys named Ozzy. (To be fair, a given name is only included in a state’s official statistics if there are at least five people with that name living in that state – so it’s entirely possible that there are still a few men and boys named Ozzy living in one state or another. If your name is Ozzy and you live outside of the states highlighted on the map, please let us know so we can refine our statistics even further). And while the first name is present in many states, it is still not one of the popular ones. In Utah, which has the most people named Ozzy relative to the population, you still have to ask 20,324 men and boys their names before you hear Ozzy as an answer just once.

Ozzy has 4 letters 
and begins with an O

Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter O is pretty rare as an initial letter for boys' names: only 1.8% of all common boys' names in the US begin with an O. The most common first letters of boys' names, by the way, are J, A and D, while X, U and Q are the least common initials of boys' names.

With four letters, the name Ozzy is shorter than most other given names. In fact, only 5.5% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly four letters. Just 1.2% of all first names are even shorter, while 93% consist of more than four letters. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.

That means that since 1.8% of all boys’ names begin with an O, this initial occurs only about half as often as the other letters on average. Nevertheless, there are of course single names beginning with an O, which are quite popular

With hands, flags and sounds 
How to say Ozzy

If your name is Ozzy and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...

This is how you spell the name Ozzy

So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Ozzy, you can simply say:

Orange

Zebra

Zebra

Yoyo

This is how the name Ozzy is spelled in the NATO phonetic alphabet

The NATO alphabet often helps people spell words on the phone or radio when there are communication problems.

How do you write Ozzy in Braille?

Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.

Ozzy

Ozzy

You want to tell a deaf person that your name is Ozzy

Just use American Sign Language!

The name Ozzy is particularly colorful in the Semaphore flag signaling system!

These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.

O
Z
Z
Y

Have you ever waved the name Ozzy

In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.

O
Z
Z
Y

Beeping like crazy...

In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Ozzy sounds like this: