First name origins & meanings:
- Hawaiian: Divine strength
- Old Norse: Divine spear
First name variations: Oke, Osgood, Oskar, Oszkár Last name origin & meaning: Scandinavian and English: from the personal name Oscar,
which is of Gaelic origin, composed of the elements os ‘deer’ +
cara ‘friend’. The personal name owes its popularity in
Scandinavia and elsewhere to the Ossian poems of James MacPherson
(1760), which enjoyed a great vogue in the latter part of the 18th
century. Famous people with this first name:
Oscar de la Hoya Famous people who gave their babies this name:
Gillian Anderson,
Oscar de la Hoya,
Hugh Jackman This name appears in the following lists:
Olympic Medalists,
Presidents' Kids
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