Osvaldo
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in Portuguese: a male given name, equivalent to English Oswald
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/osbaldo/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Osvaldo 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.
- 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 Osvaldo 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)
- #854 (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 351 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 463 (inferred from the name graph)
109,513 people, 2022
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Argentina, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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)
Spanish/Italian/Portuguese form of Oswald, 'god power'
Sources 1
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Attested across 20 languages in the etymology graph.
How Osvaldo is read(measured from records)
Osvaldo is one spelling over 2 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Spanish76%
Germánico: 'aquel a quien gobierna un dios'
as a nameDiccionario etimológico de nombres propios
- Portuguese17%
a male given name, equivalent to English Oswald
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Osvaldo 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | #208 | 109,513 | 1 in 1.9K | 147K | Osvaldo | 172 |
| AR Argentina | #108 | ≈98,000 est. | ≈1 in 463 | 135 | Osvaldo | 141 |
| MZ Mozambique | #7 | ≈59,000 est. | ≈1 in 510 | 1 | Osvaldo | 35 |
| AO Angola | #24 | ≈40,000 est. | ≈1 in 806 | — | Osvaldo | 51 |
| VE Venezuela | — | 37,552as Oswaldo | 1 in 763 | 38K | — | 29 |
| PY Paraguay | #77 | ≈14,000 est. | ≈1 in 505 | — | Osvaldo | 50 |
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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Osvaldo is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, Spanish/Italian/Portuguese form of Oswald, 'god power'
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In Italian, Dal germanico Oswald; il secondo tipo Osualdo è frequente in Friuli. Nome del santo re di Northumberland (VII secolo).
as a nameDizionario Dei Nomi e Cognomi Italiani
In Italian, forma italiana de Osvaldus
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
Potere divino
as a nameIl grande libro dei nomi per bebè. Significato, origini, curiosità. Oltre 7000 nomi per bambine e bambini Significato,…
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Carlo Goldonib. 1707FRnot in their usual nameItalian playwright (1707-1793)
- Osvaldo Puglieseb. 1905ARArgentine pianist and tango composer (1905–1995)
- Osvaldo Dorticósb. 1919CUPresident of Cuba (1919–1983)
- Osvaldo Cavandolib. 1920ITItalian cartoonist
- Osvaldo Bagnolib. 1935ITItalian football coach (1935-2026)
- Osvaldo Desiderib. 1939ITItalian art director (1939–2023)
- Osvaldo Hurtadob. 1939ECPresident of Ecuador (1981-1984)
- Osvaldo Ardilesb. 1952ARArgentine association football player and manager
- Osvaldo Benavidesb. 1979MXMexican actor and filmmaker
- Nicolás Gaitánb. 1988ARnot in their usual nameArgentine footballer
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 65 sources across 38 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 147K | #328 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 110K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 109K | #301 |
| VE Venezuela | asosab — SAIME ID-card names (1896–1996) | — | 2.3K | #703 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 261 | #301 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 2020 | 204 | — |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present) | 2024 | 66 | #929 |
| AR Argentina | datos.gob.ar — nombres.datos.gob.ar per-name lookup (1922–2015) | 2015 | 12 | — |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — births 1922–2015 (Kaggle mirror) | 2015 | 12 | — |
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Where does the name Osvaldo come from?
- Spanish/Italian/Portuguese form of Oswald, 'god power' Recorded by Baby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular….
- Is Osvaldo a male or female name?
- Osvaldo 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.
- How do you pronounce Osvaldo?
- A machine transcription gives /osbaldo/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- What does the name Osvaldo mean?
- In Portuguese, a male given name, equivalent to English Oswald
- In which country does Osvaldo have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 110 thousand people named Osvaldo, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled osvaldo.
- How common is the name Osvaldo?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 109,513 people named Osvaldo in 2022, about 1 in 1.9 thousand residents.
- How common is Osvaldo compared with other names?
- In Brazil, Osvaldo is the 208th most common given name of 474,894 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Osvaldo?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/osvaldoThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
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, “Osvaldo” — the 208th most common given name in Brazil. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.