# Oswaldo (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/oswaldo/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 5,902 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 5,902 / 0 (0% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | not in the ONS data |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 95 | 1,617 |
| 2012 | 88 | 1,726 |
| 2013 | 69 | 2,007 |
| 2014 | 83 | 1,810 |
| 2015 | 64 | 2,159 |
| 2016 | 57 | 2,328 |
| 2017 | 48 | 2,621 |
| 2018 | 53 | 2,463 |
| 2019 | 38 | 3,135 |
| 2020 | 51 | 2,533 |
| 2021 | 52 | 2,546 |
| 2022 | 45 | 2,856 |
| 2023 | 44 | 2,880 |
| 2024 | 43 | 2,945 |
| 2025 | 41 | 3,027 |

## People named Oswaldo

- Oswaldo de Oliveira, Brazilian association football player and manager
- Oswaldo Payá, Cuban activist (1952-2012)
- Oswaldo Guayasamín, Ecuadorian painter (1919–1999)
- Oswaldo Cruz, Brazilian physician and bacteriologist (1872-1917)
- Oswaldo Minda, Ecuadorian footballer
- Oswaldo Ibarra, Ecuadorian footballer
- Oswaldo Henríquez, Colombian footballer
- Oswaldo Brenes Álvarez, Costa Rican catholic bishop (1942-2013)
- Juninho Paulista, Brazilian association football player
- Vadão, Brazilian association football manager (1956–2020)

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.