Male first name (French, English, Italian): Oscar, Old Norse (two-part name), as = the Ase, the deity (Old Icelandic); Geirr = the spear (Old Icelandic); old Scandinavian two-part name, made famous by the Ossian-seal (with Oscar son of Ossian), the Scotsman James Macpherson; popular in Sweden as King Name The sword of God.