The Osmani surname
In the 2010 U.S. Census, 861 people carried this name — #27,869 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 344,800 people counted. That is up 78% from 485 in 2000.
In Switzerland’s population statistics
3,475 people named Osmani live in Switzerland.
They live in 24 of Switzerland’s 26 cantons, most of all in Zurich.
Where it concentrates, on the mapWhere they live today
Swiss Federal Statistical Office (FSO), «Surnames of the permanent resident population by canton», 2025, opendata.swiss/en/dataset/nachnamen-der-standigen-wohnbevolkerung-nach-kanton3 · names with fewer than 3 bearers in a canton are not published.
In Belgium’s population register
At least 457 people named Osmani live in Belgium.
Statbel only publishes a name in a municipality when five or more people there share it, so the real number is higher. Most of them live in Antwerp.
Where it concentrates, on the mapWhere they live today
Statbel (Statistics Belgium), family names of the population by municipality, 1 January 2026 — CC BY 4.0.
In France’s civil register
France’s register of deaths holds 185 people named Osmani.
Most of them — 111 — were born outside France. Those born in France came from 17 départements, most often Hauts-de-Seine.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they were born
Fichier des personnes décédées, INSEE — Licence Ouverte 2.0 · deaths recorded in France since 1970, by place of birth.
In the Nordic population registers
1,086 people named Osmani are counted in Sweden, Norway and Finland.
Sweden’s figure is from 31 December 2022, the last count Statistics Sweden published. Norway publishes only surnames with 200 or more bearers. Finland counts its citizens, at home or abroad.
Counted, by country
Own calculations based on data from Statistics Sweden (SCB), surnames with at least two bearers, 31 December 2022 — CC BY 4.0 (names with 20 or more bearers shown) · Statistics Norway (SSB, ssb.no), table 12891, 2025 — CC BY 4.0 · Digital and Population Data Services Agency (DVV), Finland, surname statistics, August 2026 — CC BY 4.0.
In print
Osmani in American newspapers,
1893–1894.
Chronicling America, Library of Congress — digitised newspapers in the public domain · 211 pages in all carry the name.
Who carried it
People named Osmani,
with a public archive behind them.
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Carlo Osmani 1819–1900 · saddler -
Vjosa Osmani 1982– · politician -
Esma Sultan 1778–1848 · aristocrat
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Siddiqur Rahman Osmani 1949– · economist
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Osman Osmani 1957– · politician
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Farida Osmani 1959– · sociologist
Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons (CC0) · 10 lives in all are documented under this name.
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Osmani.
- Oscar 1,781 · U.S. census
- Osche 189 · U.S. census
- Oser 1,134 · U.S. census
- Oses 191 · U.S. census
- Osinski 1,159 · U.S. census
- Osman 9,908 · U.S. census
- Osmond 1,367 · U.S. census
- Ossola 174 · U.S. census
- Osswald 386 · U.S. census
- Oster 6,259 · U.S. census
- Ostermann 956 · U.S. census
- Ostertag 969 · U.S. census
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