Boy

Osvaldo

Meaning not yet researched.

2025 rank
#1,408
130 boys
2015
#992
rank
1950
#4,057
rank

Osvaldo: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 130 in 2025. Its best rank was #410 in 2004.

US births per year · SSA card applications

Peaked at #410 in 2004; #1,408 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Osvaldo in 2025 was a boy.

Baby name · US data 1880–2025

#1,408 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2004, at #410.

Babies in 2025
130
Since 1880
14,538
Years on record
84

Babies named Osvaldo, every year since 1880

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Boys

Osvaldo: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 130 boys in 2025. Peak: #410 in 2004 · most boys in one year: 634 (2004).

About the name Osvaldo

In 2025, 130 US boys were named Osvaldo, making it the 1,408th most common boys’ name of the year, down 92 places from #1,316 in 2024. That is 18 fewer than the 148 boys named Osvaldo in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #410, reached in 2004. That year also had the most boys given the name: 634. For comparison, it was #992 in 2015 and #4,057 in 1950.

Social Security card records list Osvaldo in 84 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1917 with 5 babies. In all, 14,538 US babies have been given the name, 0.1% of them girls and 99.9% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 5,042 babies named Osvaldo.

Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,393 US boys were named Osvaldo; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 187. In 2025 that was about 1 in 13,139 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.

Among the states, Osvaldo ranked highest in Nevada in 2025, at #573 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Oswaldo (5,902 babies since 1880), Oswald (4,407 babies since 1880) and Osbaldo (3,092 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Usvaldo and Ozvaldo are summarised on this page.

Meaning

Meaning not yet researched.

We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.

Related spellings

Rare spellings summarised here: Usvaldo (17), Ozvaldo (12).

Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.

Nicknames

No nicknames listed for Osvaldo in the open dataset we use.

Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).

Osvaldo by state, 2025

US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 43 are not listed.

StateBirths 2025Rank 2025Rank 2015
Nevada5#573#490
California31#804#560
Arizona6#910—
Texas25#970#538
Illinois8#994#1,159
Indiana5#1,043—
Georgia7#1,186#977
Florida5#2,024#1,016

Rank by year

Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.

CSV
YearGirlsGirls rankBoysBoys rank
2025——130#1,408
2024——148#1,316
2023——151#1,280
2022——112#1,585
2021——117#1,524
2020——123#1,408
2019——130#1,379
2018——141#1,297
2017——154#1,204
2016——187#1,061
2015——208#992
2014——209#993
2013——208#965
2012——302#759
2011——356#667
2010——317#725
2009——352#689
2008——423#594
2007——551#485
2006——529#491
2005——522#481
2004——634#410
2003——546#462
2002——595#418
2001——491#482
2000——399#540
19997#12,324375#542
1998——406#515
1997——391#517
1996——420#497
1995——300#595
19945#15,096352#550
1993——318#575
1992——251#656
1991——231#666
1990——252#637
1989——183#731
1988——130#833
1987——126#833
1986——125#809
1985——139#758
1984——120#799
1983——146#711
1982——140#745
1981——126#779
1980——127#778
1979——121#786
1978——110#815
1977——126#760
1976——127#740
1975——136#711
1974——100#805
1973——96#808
1972——95#825
1971——92#855
1970——65#1,011
1969——51#1,092
1968——58#965
1967——60#941
1966——47#1,085
1965——40#1,218
1964——38#1,279
1963——58#1,000
1962——45#1,162
1961——63#976
1960——31#1,457
1959——29#1,492
1958——35#1,315
1957——29#1,476
1956——30#1,435
1955——20#1,771
1954——19#1,804
1953——23#1,623
1952——19#1,792
1951——10#2,615
1950——5#4,057
1949——7#3,218
1948——9#2,742
1946——8#2,844
1944——8#2,799
1940——5#3,812
1934——5#4,077
1931——8#3,036
1917——5#4,424

About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).