Osmar

Osmar is a male name .

origin

Osmar is probably a subsidiary form of the Anglo-Saxon name Ansmar or Osmær , whereby the name parts can be traced back to Germanic "ans" (god, family of gods of the Asen ) and Old High German "mar" (great, famous) or "maren" (proclaim, praise). English missionaries of this name did missionary work around the year 800 in what is now northern Germany.

Well-known namesake

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

See also

• Osmers , patronymically derived family name

swell

• Hans Bahlow : German name dictionary. Family and first names explained according to their origin and meaning. Gondrom, Bindlach 1990, ISBN 3-8112-0294-4
• Günther Drosdowski: Duden lexicon of first names: origin, meaning and use of several thousand first names . Bibliographical Institute (Dudenverlag), Mannheim / Vienna / Zurich 1974
• Margit Eberhard-Wabnitz, Horst Leisering: Knaur's first name book. Droemersche Verlagsanstalt 1985, ISBN 3-426-26189-8