Oswaldo
About 5,902 American babies have been named Oswaldo since 1915, most of them around 2006. In 2025 it ranked 2,991st. About 5,600 Oswaldos are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 22.
Popularity, 1880–2025
boys named Oswaldo
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 5,902
- Estimated living today
- 5,600
- Median age today
- 22
- Peak year
- 2006
- Best rank
- 549th
- Rank in 2025
- 2,991st
- First recorded
- 1915
How old the living Oswaldos are
born that year still alive today
Of the 5,902 babies given the name since 1915, about 5,600 are alive — 95 in every hundred. Roughly 1,400 of them are children and 140 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2003 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 Oswaldos
- Oswaldo Sánchez (born 1973)Mexican association football player
- Oswaldo López Arellano (1921–2010)President of Honduras
- Oswaldo de Oliveira (born 1950)Brazilian association football player and manager
- Oswaldo Payá (1952–2012)Cuban activist
- Oswaldo Guayasamín (1919–1999)Ecuadorian painter
- Oswaldo Alanis (born 1989)Mexican footballer
- Oswaldo Vizcarrondo (born 1984)Venezuelan footballer
- Oswaldo Minda (born 1983)Ecuadorian footballer
People named Oswaldo with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Oswaldo is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Oswaldo is most concentrated in California (4.9×), Texas (2.8×), Arizona (2.1×), Illinois (1.3×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2006
The most popular boys’ names the year Oswaldo peaked:
Oswaldo elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| France boys | Oswaldo | 65 | 1,216th |
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.
Where Oswaldo lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 803 men called Oswaldo 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Palmas, Las | Oswaldo | 94 | 0.162 | 599 |
| Santa Cruz de Tenerife | Oswaldo | 75 | 0.141 | 684 |
| Pontevedra | Oswaldo | 36 | 0.079 | 667 |
| Coruña, A | Oswaldo | 29 | 0.053 | 927 |
| Lugo | Oswaldo | 8 | 0.051 | 943 |
| Balears, Illes | Oswaldo | 29 | 0.047 | 1,259 |
Listed in 30 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 22 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.
Related names
Oswaldo against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
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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.