Oswaldo

given name · Spanish · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Oswaldo is a given name, most frequently recorded in Venezuela. In Guatemala it is the 48th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Spanish and Portuguese, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Variante cacográfica de Osvaldo.

rarermore common
  • VEVenezuela1 in 810◐
  • SVEl Salvador1 in 812
  • ECEcuador1 in 880

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈48K ●

across 8 countries

Sources
302 ●

469K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 880 ◐

Ecuador

Meaning & origin●

Variante cacográfica de Osvaldo

Sources 1

  • Diccionario etimológico de nombres propios

Attested across 20 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Oswaldo is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
VE Venezuela#106232,914116K rec.—38KOswaldo90
PE Peru#216150,415128K rec.——Oswaldo74
MX Mexico#347106,47677K rec.—230Oswaldo184
SV El Salvador#11433,41124K rec.——Oswaldo57
CO Colombia#28124,5369.1K rec.—19Oswaldo111
EC Ecuador#16119,204△1.7K rec.1 in 88019KOswaldo75
BR Brazil#94016,86629K rec.1 in 13K23KOswaldo160
GT Guatemala#4813,12313K rec.——Oswaldo51
US United States—10,70743K rec.1 in 31K11KOswaldo302
AR Argentina—5,6053.8K rec.—3Oswaldo44
FR France—1,018704 rec.—10Oswaldo106
ES Spain—8034.1K rec.1 in 62K803Oswaldo105

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • Spanish681K53%
  • Portuguese385K30%
  • English153K12%
  • 18K1%
  • French1.6K1%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Spanish681,02753%
Portuguese384,74330%
English153,03912%
18,2901%
French1,6081%

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

Other names spelled this way◐

Oswaldo is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English given name160K records spelled Oswaldo7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Venezuela, United States, Ecuador, Brazil

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Ôswâldô, O̫͡s͜w͉̪̮a̫̱ḷ̥͞d̷͚o͙̦͟

  • Portuguese given name678 records spelled Oswaldo82 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Brazil, Argentina, Chile, Mexico

    Languages: Portuguese, Spanish, Japanese

    Also written Osvaldo, Освальдо, Ösväldö, Osváldo, Osväldö

51 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Over time●

020040060019502000455 · 1982

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Oswaldo in INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024), Ecuador, 1902–2024
Yearrecords
19021
19031
19041
19073
19082
19094
19101
19121
19133
19142
19153
19165
191717
19189
19199
192012
192115
192218
192317
192433
192535
192632
192729
192847
192948
193052
193154
193256
193362
193444
193565
193680
193764
193878
193978
194075
194189
1942104
194385
1944115
194598
1946113
1947138
1948134
1949137
1950152
1951170
1952186
1953204
1954216
1955233
1956233
1957248
1958229
1959295
1960299
1961300
1962303
1963308
1964340
1965319
1966360
1967307
1968314
1969295
1970310
1971318
1972327
1973322
1974321
1975308
1976358
1977419
1978397
1979425
1980378
1981411
1982455
1983405
1984412
1985362
1986377
1987311
1988291
1989296
1990233
1991224
1992249
1993240
1994230
1995298
1996181
1997158
1998185
1999198
2000167
2001141
2002126
2003148
2004119
2005136
2006139
2007131
2008135
2009150
201097
2011111
2012132
201398
201488
201564
201661
201772
201859
201958
202040
202145
202249
202336
202424

EC INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024) — 120 years between 1902–2024. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

1850190019502000Oswaldo Cruz, b. 1872Teodoro Fernández, b. 1913Oswaldo López Arellano, b. 1921Oswaldo de Oliveira, b. 1950Oswaldo Payá, b. 1952Vadão, b. 1956Juninho Paulista, b. 1973Oswaldo Sánchez, b. 1973Oswaldo Minda, b. 1983Oswaldo Vizcarrondo, b. 1984

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●

Attested in 44 sources across 27 countries.

Official registers attesting Oswaldo
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
VE Venezuelaasosab — SAIME ID-card names (1896–1996)—38K#53
BR BrazilIBGE — Nomes (census name API)—23K#1,279
BR BrazilBrasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA)—23K#410
EC EcuadorINEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024)—19K—
EC EcuadorINEC — civil registry names202419K#131
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)202217K—
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)202017K—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—17K#1,184
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)201017K—
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)200016K—
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)199016K—
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)198015K—

Reference works 3

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 455 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Oswaldo?
We estimate roughly 48 thousand people bear Oswaldo (counting its spellings and scripts) across 8 countries in our records.
In which country does Oswaldo have the most bearers?
Oswaldo is most frequently recorded in Venezuela, where it is most often spelled oswaldo.
How common is Oswaldo compared with other names?
In Venezuela, Oswaldo is the 106th most common given name of 213,120 given names recorded there.
Is Oswaldo a male or female name?
Oswaldo 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 Oswaldo mean?
Recorded meaning: Variante cacográfica de Osvaldo
Query this name via API
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Oswaldo” — the 106th most common given name in Venezuela. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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