Origin of the name Oscar:
derived from a Norman baronial name taken from a French place-name meaning "golden city." Others think it is merely an invention of the novelist Fanny Burney, who used it for the hero in her novel Evelina (1778).
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Oskar Schindler, German businessman whose actions saved over a thousand Jews from Nazi concentration camps. His life was dramatized in the Oscar-winning film Schindler's List (based on the book Schindler's Ark, by Thomas Keneally).
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Oskar Schell, the idealistic child narrator of Jonathan Safran Foer's novel, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
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Global Popularity of the Name Oskar
- #20 in Poland
- #25 in Iceland
- #45 in Norway
- #75 in Slovenia
- #246 in Scotland
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