This page shows the Ossian (boys) figures from the National Records of Scotland babies' first names table, which covers every year from 2000 to 2025. Each row below is one year in which Ossian was recorded as a first name for boys in Scotland: the number of babies given the name that year and the name's rank among Ossian's first-name rivals that year — that is, the rank the source table itself gives the row, among all first names for boys that year.

The record for Ossian for boys sums every one of those rows. Across the years covered, Ossian appears in 17 of them, from 2000 to 2025, with 85 babies in total. Its largest single year was 2023, when the table records 11 babies given the name, at rank 321 among all first names for boys that year.

Figures cover every year from 2000 to 2025; years in which the table records no row for Ossian for boys are simply not listed. The publisher suppresses names with a total count of 2 or less in Scotland, so no figure here stands below 3.

Year by year

Source: National Records of Scotland, babies' first names table, 2000 to 2025. Fetched 2026-11-05.

YearBabies given the nameRank among boys' first names
20256495
20249382
202311321
20215533
20205536
20194609
20185516
20173733
20163707
20157426
20144587
20133687
20124568
20084535
20065436
20054446
20003429

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