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Osbaldo

#6,344 in 2025Boys' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Osbaldo has been given to 3,092 babies in the U.S. since 1928. In 2025 it ranked #6,344 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2002, with 161 recorded.

Babies named Osbaldo, 2025

1 in 237,000

Osbaldo over time, 1880–2025

Boys
05010015020018801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Osbaldo: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Osbaldo means

Osbaldo is a given name.

The naming story behind Osbaldo

Wikidata records Osbaldo as a male given name. The entity identifier is Q21082537, and the classification was checked on 2026-10-20. The spelling matches a source label or alias exactly, without removing accents or linking it to a name merely because the letters look similar.

A database classification is different from an etymological explanation, so those questions remain open in the short meaning.

A modern root explanation needs an additional naming or linguistic reference.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 3,092 boys were recorded with the name Osbaldo between 1928 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 161 in 2002; its best national rank was #980 in 2002.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #5,397 in 2020 to #6,344 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #3,659 in 2015 to #6,344 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

How common is Osbaldo?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 237,000
14 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 122,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#6,344
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
164,137 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Osbaldo sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 164,137 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Osbaldo. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Osbaldos were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Osbaldo was born before 1999 — so the typical Osbaldo is around 26 today.

Median birth year
1999
About 26 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
35.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
45.1%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
3,082
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 35.3% of all recorded uses (1,090).

Is Osbaldo rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
+800
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−947
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−2,685
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.47×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
8.7%
Peak was 2002 (161)
Years since peak
23
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
29.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#980
2002

Spellings of Osbaldo

Osbaldo is not the most common spelling — Osvaldo is, with 48.2% against Osbaldo's 10.3%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Osbaldo is used

Across 1910–2025, Osbaldo was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 14,286 boys, against 1 in 36,269 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in —).

07 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 14,286
  2. 2Texas1 in 20,000
  3. 3Arizona1 in 33,333
  4. 4Nevada1 in 50,000
  5. 5Colorado1 in 100,000
  6. 6Georgia1 in 100,000
  7. 7Illinois1 in 100,000
  8. 8Washington1 in 100,000

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Osbaldo has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Notable people named Osbaldo

People whose public names include Osbaldo, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Osbaldo in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Osbaldo. Linked forms have their own page here.

Osvaldo

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Osbaldo by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#6,344
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 947
Best rank ever
#980
2002
Peak year
2002
161 that year
First recorded
1928
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
3,092
Count in 2025
14

Names similar to Osbaldo

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Names with a curve like Osbaldo

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Osbaldo, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Osbaldo

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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