Osvaldo
Osvaldo was given to 130 boys in 2025, #1,408 among boys’ names; 14,538 Americans have been recorded with it since 1917 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 13,900 Americans named Osvaldo and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (96% of everyone recorded); the median is 24 years old and half are between 18 and 34.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Osvaldo by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Osvaldo mean?
Wiktionary, Italian section
Osvaldo is “a male given name from Proto-Germanic, equivalent to English Oswald”
From Late Latin Osvaldus, from Proto-Germanic *Ansuwaldaz; compare the doublet Ansaldo.
/ozˈval.do/
Meaning: Wiktionary, Italian section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Osvaldo?
#1,408 among boys’ names, 2025
Osvaldo fell from #992 in 2015 to #1,408 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 0.11 to 0.08 per 1,000.
634 babies in 2004, the peak
Osvaldo peaked in 2004, when 634 boys were given it, #410 among boys’ names. The 130 births of 2025 are 21% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 130 | #1,408 | 0.08 |
| 2024 | 148 | #1,316 | 0.09 |
| 2023 | 151 | #1,280 | 0.09 |
| 2022 | 112 | #1,585 | 0.06 |
| 2021 | 117 | #1,524 | 0.07 |
| 2020 | 123 | #1,408 | 0.07 |
| 2019 | 130 | #1,379 | 0.07 |
| 2018 | 141 | #1,297 | 0.08 |
| 2017 | 154 | #1,204 | 0.08 |
| 2016 | 187 | #1,061 | 0.10 |
Every recorded year (84)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 208 | #992 | 0.11 |
| 2014 | 209 | #993 | 0.11 |
| 2013 | 208 | #965 | 0.11 |
| 2012 | 302 | #759 | 0.16 |
| 2011 | 356 | #667 | 0.19 |
| 2010 | 317 | #725 | 0.17 |
| 2009 | 352 | #689 | 0.18 |
| 2008 | 423 | #594 | 0.21 |
| 2007 | 551 | #485 | 0.27 |
| 2006 | 529 | #491 | 0.26 |
| 2005 | 522 | #481 | 0.26 |
| 2004 | 634 | #410 | 0.32 |
| 2003 | 546 | #462 | 0.28 |
| 2002 | 595 | #418 | 0.31 |
| 2001 | 491 | #482 | 0.25 |
| 2000 | 399 | #540 | 0.20 |
| 1999 | 375 | #542 | 0.20 |
| 1998 | 406 | #515 | 0.21 |
| 1997 | 391 | #517 | 0.21 |
| 1996 | 420 | #497 | 0.22 |
| 1995 | 300 | #594 | 0.16 |
| 1994 | 352 | #549 | 0.18 |
| 1993 | 318 | #574 | 0.16 |
| 1992 | 251 | #654 | 0.13 |
| 1991 | 231 | #664 | 0.11 |
| 1990 | 252 | #635 | 0.12 |
| 1989 | 183 | #728 | 0.09 |
| 1988 | 130 | #832 | 0.07 |
| 1987 | 126 | #832 | 0.07 |
| 1986 | 125 | #809 | 0.07 |
| 1985 | 139 | #758 | 0.08 |
| 1984 | 120 | #799 | 0.07 |
| 1983 | 146 | #711 | 0.08 |
| 1982 | 140 | #745 | 0.08 |
| 1981 | 126 | #779 | 0.07 |
| 1980 | 127 | #778 | 0.07 |
| 1979 | 121 | #786 | 0.07 |
| 1978 | 110 | #815 | 0.07 |
| 1977 | 126 | #760 | 0.08 |
| 1976 | 127 | #740 | 0.08 |
| 1975 | 136 | #711 | 0.09 |
| 1974 | 100 | #805 | 0.06 |
| 1973 | 96 | #808 | 0.06 |
| 1972 | 95 | #825 | 0.06 |
| 1971 | 92 | #855 | 0.05 |
| 1970 | 65 | #1,011 | 0.03 |
| 1969 | 51 | #1,092 | 0.03 |
| 1968 | 58 | #965 | 0.03 |
| 1967 | 60 | #941 | 0.03 |
| 1966 | 47 | #1,085 | 0.03 |
| 1965 | 40 | #1,218 | 0.02 |
| 1964 | 38 | #1,278 | 0.02 |
| 1963 | 58 | #999 | 0.03 |
| 1962 | 45 | #1,161 | 0.02 |
| 1961 | 63 | #975 | 0.03 |
| 1960 | 31 | #1,456 | 0.01 |
| 1959 | 29 | #1,491 | 0.01 |
| 1958 | 35 | #1,314 | 0.02 |
| 1957 | 29 | #1,475 | 0.01 |
| 1956 | 30 | #1,434 | 0.01 |
| 1955 | 20 | #1,770 | 0.01 |
| 1954 | 19 | #1,803 | 0.01 |
| 1953 | 23 | #1,622 | 0.01 |
| 1952 | 19 | #1,791 | 0.01 |
| 1951 | 10 | #2,614 | 0.01 |
| 1950 | 5 | #4,055 | under 0.01 |
| 1949 | 7 | #3,217 | under 0.01 |
| 1948 | 9 | #2,741 | 0.01 |
| 1946 | 8 | #2,843 | under 0.01 |
| 1944 | 8 | #2,798 | 0.01 |
| 1940 | 5 | #3,811 | under 0.01 |
| 1934 | 5 | #4,075 | under 0.01 |
| 1931 | 8 | #3,035 | 0.01 |
| 1917 | 5 | #4,423 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Osvaldo a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Osvaldo has been given almost only to boys: 12 girls in 84 years of records.
Girls and boys named Osvaldo: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Osvaldo, and how old are they?
13,900 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 96% of the 14,538 Americans ever recorded as Osvaldo. The median Osvaldo alive today is 24 years old; half are between 18 and 34.
The 2020 Census counted 20,816 people named Osvaldo (36 women and girls, 20,780 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 13,357 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.6 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 6 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 344 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 1,300 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 3,210 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 7,080 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 2,000 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Osvaldo born?
The states with the most babies named Osvaldo are California, Texas and Illinois, with 70% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 31 | #804 | 2.6× |
| Texas | 25 | #970 | 2.3× |
| Illinois | 8 | #994 | 1.5× |
| Georgia | 7 | #1,186 | 0.5× |
| Arizona | 6 | #910 | 1.2× |
| Florida | 5 | #2,024 | 0.9× |
| Nevada | 5 | #573 | 1.2× |
| Indiana | 5 | #1,043 | 0.1× |
Where Osvaldo is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Osvaldo is most over-represented in California: since 1917 it was given 2.6 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Osvaldo with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Osvaldo
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Osvaldo and names like it
- Compare Osvaldo and DevlinBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sOsvaldo peaked in 2004.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Osvaldo since 1910.
- The top names of 2004The year the most babies were named Osvaldo.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Osvaldo alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with OMost given first.