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Osvaldo

#1,408 in 2025Boys' name

Deity + authority, through *Ansuwaldaz

Osvaldo has been given to 14,538 babies in the U.S. since 1917. In 2025 it ranked #1,408 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2004, with 634 recorded.

Babies named Osvaldo, 2025

1 in 25,500

Osvaldo over time, 1880–2025

BoysGirls
020040060080018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Osvaldo: meaning, origin, and history

Deity + authority, through *Ansuwaldaz

Proto-Germanic

What Osvaldo means

Osvaldo belongs to the name family reached through Osvaldo → *Ansuwaldaz. Its meaning is “deity + authority”.

Origin, language, and formation

Osvaldo is used in Italian, Portuguese and Spanish. Its origins include Proto-Germanic.

Osvaldo comes through Late Latin Osvaldus and Proto-Germanic *Ansuwaldaz.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Oswald, Oswaldo, Ansaldo and *Ansuwaldaz.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Italian, Osvaldo is pronounced /ozˈval.do/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 14,526 boys were recorded with the name Osvaldo between 1917 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 634 in 2004; its best national rank was #410 in 2004.

Over 5 years its rank held the same position, from #1,408 in 2020 to #1,408 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #992 in 2015 to #1,408 in 2025.

In the United States, 12 girls were recorded with the name Osvaldo between 1994 and 1999. Its highest annual count was 7 in 1999; its best national rank was #12,317 in 1999.

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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Osvaldo?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 25,500
130 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 13,100
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#1,408
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
17,677 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Osvaldo 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 5002%

Put another way: gather 17,677 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Osvaldo. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Osvaldos were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Osvaldo was born before 2001 — so the typical Osvaldo is around 24 today.

Median birth year
2001
About 24 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
34.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
52.6%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
14,471
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 34.7% of all recorded uses (5,042).

Is Osvaldo 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
−92
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
±0
No change
Rank vs 10 years ago
−416
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.63×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
20.5%
Peak was 2004 (634)
Years since peak
21
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Steady
11.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#410
2004

Spellings of Osvaldo

Osvaldo is the most-used spelling, taking 50.9% of the 28,560 babies given a near-identical spelling.

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 Osvaldo is used

Across 2016–2025, Osvaldo was most concentrated in Texas — about 1 in 4,762 boys, against 1 in 9,374 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in 100,000).

121 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Texas1 in 4,762
  2. 2California1 in 5,263
  3. 3Arizona1 in 10,000
  4. 4Florida1 in 14,286
  5. 5Illinois1 in 14,286
  6. 6Colorado1 in 25,000
  7. 7Georgia1 in 25,000
  8. 8Nevada1 in 25,000

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.

Osvaldo around the world

Where Osvaldo ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • France
    1912–2013
    #5,052
    in 2013
  • Canada
    2018–2018
    #2,905
    in 2018
  • South Australia
    1960–1960
    #468
    in 1960

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Osvaldo

People whose public names include Osvaldo, 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.

Osvaldo in other languages

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

OswaldOsbaldoOswaldoOsvald

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

Osvaldo by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#1,408
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Steady
Best rank ever
#410
2004
Peak year
2004
634 that year
First recorded
1917
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
14,526
Count in 2025
130

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#12,317
1999
Peak year
1999
7 that year
First recorded
1994
Last recorded
1999
All-time count
12
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Osvaldo

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

RonaldoOswaldoReynaldoArnoldoOsbaldoRenaldoLeopoldoGeraldoArnaldoReinaldoWaldoAldoUbaldoDonaldoRivaldoRumaldoRaynaldoRinaldoOsualdoReginaldoUvaldoOsvinRomualdoRomaldo

Names with a curve like Osvaldo

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

JavonCobyAlexandroDonavanDevenKristianTyreeDeshawnCristopherOctavioDarianQuinten

Sibling names for Osvaldo

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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