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Oscar
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Male: 3 countries
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Female: 2 countries
Origin: Irish
Exact origin uncertain. Resuscitated by James Mcpherson in The Works of Ossian (1765). Napoleon, an admirer of the Ossianic poems, chose it for his godson Oscar Bernadotte, who became a king of Sweden. The modern given name is a conflation of two unrelated names: first, Middle Irish Oscar (the name of Fionn Mac Cumhaill's grandson in Irish mythology), from Middle Irish os (“deer”) + cara (“friend”); and second, Old English Ōscār, Ōsgār (personal name, literally “spear of the gods/spear of God”),...
Etymology: Wiktionary (CC-BY-SA)
Name Variants & Related
- Oscarjr Derived from Oscar
- Oscarine Derived from Oscar
- Oscar-Jai Derived from Oscar
- Oscar-Jay Derived from Oscar
- Oscar-Lee Derived from Oscar
- Oscar-Ray Derived from Oscar
- Oscar-Jack Derived from Oscar
- Oscar-James Derived from Oscar
- Aayden Irish origin
- Aidan Irish origin
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