Osborn Name Meaning, Origin and Heraldry

Search old registers for Osborn and you will soon meet Osborne too. The family name meaning is “God bear”, the same as for Osborne.

Family crest and blazon

Arms linked to Osborne and its spellings were granted to individual families; our heraldry team traces which line they belonged to.

Osborn and Osborne

Without the “e” of Osborne, Osborn is a simpler written form of the same name. Spellings drifted because names were written down by ear in parish books, tax rolls and passenger lists. Other spellings include Osbourn, Osbourne and Ásbjörn.

According to the 2010 US Census, the Osborn surname had 32,439 bearers. That puts it among the top 2,500 US surnames. For the full story, order the Osborn surname pack.