Where do oscars get their names?

[Deadeye]

Random question:l about naming?
For dempseys it’s aggression.
Convicts it’s color.
Gts and devils it’s both.
Why are oscars called “oscars” though?

 

[Magnus_Bane]

Random question:l about naming?
For dempseys it’s aggression.
Convicts it’s color.
Gts and devils it’s both.
Why are oscars called “oscars” though?

And this Oscar for best actor goes to... (Drum roll) the Oscar!

Lol that about the only thing I could think of for how it got its name.

 

[Deadeye]

One of my bucket list fish would be a lemon Oscar called Oscar.
Or any Oscar called “.com” (for all of you arrested development fans)

 

[Magnus_Bane]

One of my bucket list fish would be a lemon Oscar called Oscar.
Or any Oscar called “.com” (for all of you arrested development fans)

Lol I used to have a lemon Oscar named Goldie at one point. Same with a super red tiger Oscar name Red. Lol Oscars have to be one of my favorite fish of all time. Just wish my 80g never sprung a leak.

 

[Johnez]

I'm guessing the species name being modified. Ocellatus

 

[Milingu]

Quoting Frank Schäfer:
One the theories about the origin of the name oscars says it comes from an article on Astronotus that was published by E. W. Clarke in the journal The Aquarium in 1936.
Clarke owned a couple named Lena and Oscar.

In 1949, Gene Wolfsheimer reported in The Aquarium Journal that California aquarists named Astronotus cichlids as Oscars (Wayne Leibel, Aquarium USA Annual 2001).

But it is also conceivable that the word "Oscar" is a corruption of the scientific name (i.e. Astronotus) or the Tupi word for all possible larger cichlids "Acara". Tupi is the language of the people who originally lived in Brazil before the arrival of Europeans in America.