Osvaldo

Spellings & scripts●

Locally spelled Oswaldo in EC Ecuador, PE Peru and Освальдо in RU Russia.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

Attested across 20 languages in the etymology graph.

Languages●

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other recorded senses●

Osvaldo is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

• In Portuguese, a male given name, equivalent to English Oswald

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• In Spanish, Germánico: 'aquel a quien gobierna un dios'

  as a name·Diccionario etimológico de nombres propios

• In Italian, Dal germanico Oswald; il secondo tipo Osualdo è frequente in Friuli. Nome del santo re di Northumberland (VII secolo).

  as a name·Dizionario Dei Nomi e Cognomi Italiani

• In Italian, forma italiana de Osvaldus

  as a name·Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos

• Potere divino

  as a name·Il grande libro dei nomi per bebè. Significato, origini, curiosità. Oltre 7000 nomi per bambine e bambini Significato,…

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Over time●

CL SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021) — 102 years between 1920–2021. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

• Carlo Goldonib. 1707FRnot in their usual nameItalian playwright (1707-1793)
• Osvaldo Puglieseb. 1905ARArgentine pianist and tango composer (1905–1995)
• Osvaldo Dorticósb. 1919CUPresident of Cuba (1919–1983)
• Osvaldo Cavandolib. 1920ITItalian cartoonist
• Osvaldo Bagnolib. 1935ITItalian football coach (1935-2026)
• Osvaldo Desiderib. 1939ITItalian art director (1939–2023)
• Osvaldo Hurtadob. 1939ECPresident of Ecuador (1981-1984)
• Osvaldo Ardilesb. 1952ARArgentine association football player and manager
• Osvaldo Benavidesb. 1979MXMexican actor and filmmaker
• Nicolás Gaitánb. 1988ARnot in their usual nameArgentine footballer

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence●

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 701 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Osvaldo?

We estimate roughly 152 thousand people bear Osvaldo (counting its spellings and scripts) across 7 countries in our records.

In which country does Osvaldo have the most bearers?

Osvaldo is most frequently recorded in Argentina, where it is most often spelled osvaldo.

How common is Osvaldo compared with other names?

In Argentina, Osvaldo is the 126th most common given name of 517,176 given names recorded there.

Is Osvaldo a male or female name?

Osvaldo is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.

What does the name Osvaldo mean?

Recorded meaning: Spanish/Italian/Portuguese form of Oswald, 'god power'