Oscar Name Meaning & Origin
Oscar
Origin of the name Oscar:
derived from a Norman baronial name taken from a French place-name meaning "golden city." Others think it is merely an invention of the novelist Fanny Burney, who used it for the hero in her novel Evelina (1778).
From A World of Baby Names by Teresa Norman.
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Contribute your knowledge to the name Oscar
- Comments and insights on the name Oscar
Oscar is O in the NATO phonetic alphabet
Oscar is a cute name, but may be associated by younger kids with Oscar the Grouch.
- Personal experiences with the name Oscar
my boyfriend's name is Oscar.. he's amazing, i think this is an awesome kind of like vintage name!
- Nicknames for Oscar
Ozzy, Ossie, Oz, Scar (if he grows up to be a gangster), Bozzy, Bozo
- Meanings and history of the name Oscar
Oscar (Irish) possibly from the Gaelic phrase "os cara", meaning "friend of the deer". James Macpherson used the name in his Ossianic poems. Napoleon, an admirer of those works, imposed it on his little French godson, who ascended the throne of Sweden as Oscar I (or Oskar I).
The 'Os' part could well be from the Old English word for god (Old Norse equivalent 'As'). Not the Christian god, but one of the pagan gods.
Also a Old Norse name meaning God's spear. Anglicized from Ásgeirr
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Oscar Isaac, Guatemalan American actor
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