Osvaldo
Osvaldo is a boy's name that peaked in 2004, when it was the 410th most popular in the United States. In 2025 it ranked 1,401st. About 14,000 Osvaldos are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 23.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Osvaldo boys named Osvaldo
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 14,538
- Estimated living today
- 14,000
- Median age today
- 23
- Peak year
- 2004
- Best rank
- 410th
- Rank in 2025
- 1,401st
- First recorded
- 1917
- Girls / boys
- 12 / 14,526
How old the living Osvaldos are
born that year still alive today
Of the 14,538 babies given the name since 1917, about 14,000 are alive — 96 in every hundred. Roughly 3,700 of them are children and 190 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2002 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Notable Osvaldos
- Osvaldo Ardiles (born 1952)Argentine association football player and manager
- Osvaldo Dorticós (1919–1983)President of Cuba
- Osvaldo Moles (1913–1967)Brazilian journalist, radio announcer and lyricist
- Osvaldo Hurtado (born 1939)President of Ecuador
- Osvaldo Escudero (born 1960)Argentine association football player
- Osvaldo Pugliese (1905–1995)Argentine pianist and tango composer
- Osvaldo Martínez (born 1986)Paraguay footballer
- Osvaldo José Martins Júnior (born 1982)Brazilian association football player
People named Osvaldo with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Osvaldo is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Osvaldo is most concentrated in California (3.8×), Texas (3.2×), Nevada (3.0×), Arizona (2.3×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2004
The most popular boys’ names the year Osvaldo peaked:
Osvaldo elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Italy boys | Osvaldo | 264 | — |
| France boys | Osvaldo | 120 | 480th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Osvaldo among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland boys | Osvaldo | 5 | 12 |
A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Where Osvaldo lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 834 men called Osvaldo were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.
Men: the provinces where it is densest
| Province | Spelling | People | Per thousand | Place there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Santa Cruz de Tenerife | Osvaldo | 76 | 0.143 | 673 |
| Palmas, Las | Osvaldo | 63 | 0.108 | 856 |
| Lugo | Osvaldo | 11 | 0.070 | 768 |
| Balears, Illes | Osvaldo | 34 | 0.055 | 1,115 |
| Coruña, A | Osvaldo | 30 | 0.055 | 909 |
| Madrid | Osvaldo | 176 | 0.052 | 1,058 |
Listed in 32 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 20 it is either held by fewer than 5 people – the point below which the source withholds a name – or it fell past the 5,000 names the source will print for one province. Neither means nobody there is called it. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.