Ósvaldo

given name · Latin script

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

Ósvaldo is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country. In Mozambique it is the 7th most common given name. Recorded meaning: From Late Latin Osvaldus, from Proto-Germanic *Ansuwaldaz; compare the doublet Ansaldo.

rarermore common
  • ARArgentina≈1 in 463(inferred from the name graph)
  • PYParaguay≈1 in 505
  • AOAngola≈1 in 806

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Ósvaldo itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Brazil (measured from records)

109,513 people, 2022

#854 (measured from records)

of 15M given names

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
351 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 463 (inferred from the name graph)

Argentina, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

ÓsvaldoLatin(measured from records)
ОсвальдоCyrillic(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Osvaldo in AR Argentina, BR Brazil, PY Paraguay and 2 more.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

Derivation of Ósvaldo: each step is the form the one above it came from.
Ósvaldo
  1. Late LatinOsvaldus(measured from records)
  2. Proto-Germanic*Ansuwaldaz(measured from records)

From Late Latin Osvaldus, from Proto-Germanic *Ansuwaldaz; compare the doublet Ansaldo.

Sources 8

  • A concise dictionary of first names
  • Il grande libro dei nomi per bebè. Significato, origini, curiosità. Oltre 7000 nomi per bambine e bambini Significato,…
  • Wiktionary
  • Diccionario etimológico de nombres propios
  • Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos

Attested across 28 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Ósvaldo counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.

Where Ósvaldo is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
BR Brazil#208109,5131 in 1.9K147KOsvaldo172
AR Argentina#108≈98,000 est.≈1 in 463135Osvaldo141
MZ Mozambique#7≈59,000 est.≈1 in 5101Osvaldo35
AO Angola#24≈40,000 est.≈1 in 806—Osvaldo51
VE Venezuela—37,552as Oswaldo1 in 76338K—29
PY Paraguay#77≈14,000 est.≈1 in 505—Osvaldo50

109,513 people counted by IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror), 2022. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.

Registers cited: RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); asosab — SAIME ID-card names (1896–1996); Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.

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

Evidence(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Ósvaldo under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Ósvaldo mean, and where does it come from?
From Late Latin Osvaldus, from Proto-Germanic *Ansuwaldaz; compare the doublet Ansaldo. Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names and Il grande libro dei nomi per bebè. Significato, origini, curiosità. Oltre 7000 nomi per bambine e bambini Significato,… and 6 other sources.
Is Ósvaldo a male or female name?
Ósvaldo 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.
In which country does Ósvaldo have the most bearers?
In Brazil, the national register counted about 110 thousand people named Ósvaldo, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled osvaldo.
How common is the name Ósvaldo?
In Brazil, the national register counted 109,513 people named Ósvaldo in 2022, about 1 in 1.9 thousand residents.
How common is Ósvaldo compared with other names?
In Brazil, Ósvaldo is the 208th most common given name of 474,894 given names recorded there.

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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.

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, “Ósvaldo” — the 208th most common given name in Brazil. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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