Oswaldo
Oswaldo is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 43 births. Its best rank was 549th, in 2006.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 430.00% of boys
- Peak year
- 2006461 births
- Best rank
- #549in 2006
- Since 1915
- 5,861people given the name
The story in the numbers
5,861 boys have been named Oswaldo in the United States since 1915, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2006, with 461 births.
It is falling: its share of births is 60% or less of what it was ten years ago.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 2002, and the 2000s alone account for 42%. It has spent 8 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Oswaldo | |
|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 13 | |
| 1920s | 25 | |
| 1930s | 25 | |
| 1940s | 29 | |
| 1950s | 156 | |
| 1960s | 234 | |
| 1970s | 460 | |
| 1980s | 537 | |
| 1990s | 978 | |
| 2000s | 2,454 | |
| 2010s | 715 | |
| 2020s | 235 |
In 2006, its biggest year
Oswaldo was the 549th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 2006 were Jacob, Michael, Joshua, Ethan and Matthew. See all of 2006.
Names that rose and fell with Oswaldo
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Daganpeak 2003
- Typeak 2005
- Donivanpeak 2007
- Devlinpeak 2007
- Cristopherpeak 2007
- Donavinpeak 2005
- Nathenpeak 2006
- Gabrialpeak 2007
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.