Oswald
Oswald is the 2,536th most common surname in the United States, shared by 13,878 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 21,500.
By the numbers
- People
- 13,878
- Rank
- 2,536th
- How common
- 1 in 21,500
- Per 100,000
- 4.6
Where the name comes from
Origin a patronymic
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Who bears the name
How people with the surname Oswald described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:
Notable people called Oswald
- Lee Harvey Oswald (1939–1963)American former marine who assassinated John F. Kennedy
- Richard Oswald (1880–1963)Austrian film director
- Marina Oswald Porter (born 1941)Widow of Lee Harvey Oswald
- Stephen S. Oswald (born 1951)American astronaut
- Philipp Oswald (born 1986)Austrian tennis player
- Gerd Oswald (1919–1989)American film and television director
- Denis Oswald (born 1947)Swiss rower and sports official
- Henrique Oswald (1852–1931)Brazilian composer
People named Oswald with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Surnames like Oswald
Also a first name
Oswald has been given to 4,407 American babies as a first name since 1880, peaking in 1916. See it as a given name.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.