Osmar

Osmar is a male first name.

Origin

Osmar is probably a minor form of the Anglo-Saxon name Ansmar or Osmær, with the names of parts on Germanic "ans" ( God of gods of the Aesir ) and Old High German "mar" (large, famous) or " maren " ( announce boast ) can be recycled. English missionaries of that name did missionary work around the year 800 in what is now northern Germany.

Well-known bearers of the name

• Osmar Schindler (1867-1927), German painter
• Osmar White (1909-1991), Australian journalist, correspondent and writer

Swell

• Hans Bahlow: German dictionary of names. Family and first name by origin and meaning explained. Gondrom, Bindlach 1990, ISBN 3-8112-0294-4
• Günther Drosdowski: Duden Dictionary of first names: origin, meaning and use of several thousand names. Bibliographical Institute ( Duden ), Mannheim / Wien / Zurich 1974
• Margit Eberhard- Wabnitz, Horst Leisenring: Knaurs name book. Droemersche Publishing Company, 1985, ISBN 3-426-26189-8

• Male first name