Meaning not yet researched.
Oswaldo: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 41 in 2025. Its best rank was #549 in 2006.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #549 in 2006; #3,027 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Oswaldo in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#3,027 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2006, at #549.
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Oswaldo: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 41 boys in 2025. Peak: #549 in 2006 · most boys in one year: 461 (2006).
In 2025, 41 US boys were named Oswaldo, making it the 3,027th most common boys’ name of the year, down 82 places from #2,945 in 2024. That is 2 fewer than the 43 boys named Oswaldo in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #549, reached in 2006. That year also had the most boys given the name: 461. For comparison, it was #2,159 in 2015 and #4,058 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Oswaldo in 90 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1915 with 8 babies. In all, 5,902 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 2,454 babies named Oswaldo.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 472 US boys were named Oswaldo; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 57. In 2025 that was about 1 in 41,660 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Osvaldo (14,538 babies since 1880) and Oswald (4,407 babies since 1880).
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.
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0).
No nicknames listed for Oswaldo in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 41 | #3,027 |
| 2024 | — | — | 43 | #2,945 |
| 2023 | — | — | 44 | #2,880 |
| 2022 | — | — | 45 | #2,856 |
| 2021 | — | — | 52 | #2,546 |
| 2020 | — | — | 51 | #2,533 |
| 2019 | — | — | 38 | #3,135 |
| 2018 | — | — | 53 | #2,463 |
| 2017 | — | — | 48 | #2,621 |
| 2016 | — | — | 57 | #2,328 |
| 2015 | — | — | 64 | #2,159 |
| 2014 | — | — | 83 | #1,810 |
| 2013 | — | — | 69 | #2,007 |
| 2012 | — | — | 88 | #1,726 |
| 2011 | — | — | 95 | #1,617 |
| 2010 | — | — | 120 | #1,395 |
| 2009 | — | — | 172 | #1,082 |
| 2008 | — | — | 208 | #965 |
| 2007 | — | — | 290 | #758 |
| 2006 | — | — | 461 | #549 |
| 2005 | — | — | 312 | #674 |
| 2004 | — | — | 269 | #714 |
| 2003 | — | — | 240 | #748 |
| 2002 | — | — | 184 | #887 |
| 2001 | — | — | 191 | #846 |
| 2000 | — | — | 127 | #1,114 |
| 1999 | — | — | 135 | #1,031 |
| 1998 | — | — | 113 | #1,128 |
| 1997 | — | — | 107 | #1,152 |
| 1996 | — | — | 112 | #1,087 |
| 1995 | — | — | 88 | #1,242 |
| 1994 | — | — | 86 | #1,265 |
| 1993 | — | — | 92 | #1,167 |
| 1992 | — | — | 71 | #1,346 |
| 1991 | — | — | 84 | #1,212 |
| 1990 | — | — | 90 | #1,143 |
| 1989 | — | — | 82 | #1,180 |
| 1988 | — | — | 57 | #1,385 |
| 1987 | — | — | 50 | #1,456 |
| 1986 | — | — | 60 | #1,251 |
| 1985 | — | — | 43 | #1,538 |
| 1984 | — | — | 39 | #1,571 |
| 1983 | — | — | 52 | #1,290 |
| 1982 | — | — | 58 | #1,224 |
| 1981 | — | — | 38 | #1,593 |
| 1980 | — | — | 58 | #1,210 |
| 1979 | — | — | 36 | #1,618 |
| 1978 | — | — | 54 | #1,223 |
| 1977 | — | — | 49 | #1,285 |
| 1976 | — | — | 54 | #1,174 |
| 1975 | — | — | 51 | #1,188 |
| 1974 | — | — | 46 | #1,242 |
| 1973 | — | — | 39 | #1,344 |
| 1972 | — | — | 53 | #1,125 |
| 1971 | — | — | 53 | #1,134 |
| 1970 | — | — | 25 | #1,781 |
| 1969 | — | — | 29 | #1,519 |
| 1968 | — | — | 25 | #1,606 |
| 1967 | — | — | 21 | #1,741 |
| 1966 | — | — | 23 | #1,643 |
| 1965 | — | — | 21 | #1,765 |
| 1964 | — | — | 21 | #1,779 |
| 1963 | — | — | 20 | #1,821 |
| 1962 | — | — | 26 | #1,579 |
| 1961 | — | — | 28 | #1,543 |
| 1960 | — | — | 20 | #1,847 |
| 1959 | — | — | 20 | #1,848 |
| 1958 | — | — | 22 | #1,713 |
| 1957 | — | — | 15 | #2,166 |
| 1956 | — | — | 21 | #1,755 |
| 1955 | — | — | 14 | #2,200 |
| 1954 | — | — | 21 | #1,693 |
| 1953 | — | — | 16 | #2,017 |
| 1952 | — | — | 12 | #2,347 |
| 1951 | — | — | 10 | #2,616 |
| 1950 | — | — | 5 | #4,058 |
| 1949 | — | — | 7 | #3,219 |
| 1948 | — | — | 7 | #3,237 |
| 1946 | — | — | 5 | #3,887 |
| 1941 | — | — | 10 | #2,450 |
| 1939 | — | — | 5 | #3,844 |
| 1936 | — | — | 6 | #3,440 |
| 1933 | — | — | 5 | #4,029 |
| 1930 | — | — | 9 | #2,949 |
| 1926 | — | — | 5 | #4,660 |
| 1924 | — | — | 7 | #3,765 |
| 1922 | — | — | 6 | #4,197 |
| 1921 | — | — | 7 | #3,790 |
| 1918 | — | — | 5 | #4,644 |
| 1915 | — | — | 8 | #3,002 |
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).