WELCOME! OSCAR Oscar, a name that is not uncommon, is a variant of Ansgar ( Saint Anscharius , commemorated on February 3) since the prefixes Os , Ans and Aus have the same meaning in Old German. (Information from Stadler 's Complete Encyclopedia of Saints, Volume 4, Augsburg, 1875, p. 628) Stadler's Complete Encyclopedia of Saints - Sources and Abbreviations Sources of these articles (in the original German): books.google.co.uk, de-academic.com, zeno.org, openlibrary.org