Oscar

Oscar derives from Old Irish, most likely from the elements os, meaning deer, and cara, meaning friend, giving the overall sense of deer friend or lover of deer. The name was borne in Irish mythology by Oscar, grandson of the hero Finn Mac Cool and son of the poet Ossian, making it a prominent figure in the Fenian Cycle. The Scottish poet James Macpherson popularized the name across Europe through his influential Ossianic poems in the 1760s, leading Napoleon Bonaparte to bestow it on his godson, who became King Oscar I of Sweden and established it as a royal Scandinavian name. Related forms include the Spanish and Portuguese Óscar and the Catalan Òscar.