Oswaldo
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Variante cacográfica de Osvaldo
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/osbaldo/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Oswaldo is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Venezuela than in any other country, where it is the 84th most common given name.
- VEVenezuela1 in 763(measured from records)
- ECEcuador1 in 880
- PEPeru≈1 in 1.2K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Venezuela (measured from records)
- Sources
- 329 (measured from records)
- 1 in 763 (inferred from the name graph)
37,552 people
Highest-authority source
Venezuela
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Variante cacográfica de Osvaldo
Sources 1
- Diccionario etimológico de nombres propios
Attested across 20 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Oswaldo 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| VE Venezuela | #84 | 37,552 | 1 in 763 | 38K | Oswaldo | 92 |
| PE Peru | #197 | ≈26,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.2K | — | Oswaldo | 82 |
| EC Ecuador | #55 | 19,204 | 1 in 880 | 19K | Oswaldo | 76 |
| BR Brazil | #559 | 16,866 | 1 in 13K | 23K | Oswaldo | 162 |
| CO Colombia | #302 | ≈16,000 est. | ≈1 in 3K | 19 | Oswaldo | 117 |
| GT Guatemala | #33 | ≈7,800 est. | ≈1 in 2.2K | — | Oswaldo | 50 |
| NI Nicaragua | #158 | ≈2,800 est. | ≈1 in 2.2K | — | Oswaldo | 24 |
37,552 people counted by asosab — SAIME ID-card names (1896–1996). 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: asosab — SAIME ID-card names (1896–1996); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); INEC — civil registry names; the co-datosgov-candidates register. 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Oswaldo Cruzb. 1872BRBrazilian physician and bacteriologist (1872-1917)
- Teodoro Fernándezb. 1913PEnot in their usual namePeruvian footballer (1913-1996)
- Oswaldo López Arellanob. 1921HNPresident of Honduras
- Oswaldo de Oliveirab. 1950BRBrazilian association football player and manager
- Oswaldo Payáb. 1952CUCuban activist (1952-2012)
- Vadãob. 1956BRnot in their usual nameBrazilian association football manager (1956–2020)
- Juninho Paulistab. 1973BRnot in their usual nameBrazilian association football player
- Oswaldo Sánchezb. 1973MXMexican association football player
- Oswaldo Mindab. 1983ECEcuadorian footballer
- Oswaldo Vizcarrondob. 1984VEVenezuelan 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 46 sources across 27 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| VE Venezuela | asosab — SAIME ID-card names (1896–1996) | — | 38K | #53 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 23K | #1,279 |
| BR Brazil | Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA) | — | 23K | #410 |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024) | — | 19K | — |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — civil registry names | 2024 | 19K | #131 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 17K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2020 | 17K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 17K | #1,184 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2010 | 17K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2000 | 16K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1990 | 16K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1980 | 15K | — |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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
- What does the name Oswaldo mean, and where does it come from?
- Variante cacográfica de Osvaldo Recorded by Diccionario etimológico de nombres propios.
- How do you pronounce Oswaldo?
- A machine transcription gives /osbaldo/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- Is Oswaldo a male or female name?
- Oswaldo 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 Oswaldo have the most bearers?
- In Venezuela, the national register counted about 38 thousand people named Oswaldo, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled oswaldo.
- Where is Oswaldo most common?
- Oswaldo is densest in Venezuela, where the national register counts about 1 in 763 people carrying it.
- How common is the name Oswaldo?
- In Venezuela, the national register counted 37,552 people named Oswaldo, about 1 in 763 residents.
- How common is Oswaldo compared with other names?
- In Venezuela, Oswaldo is the 84th most common given name of 218,181 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Oswaldo?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/oswaldoThe 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, “Oswaldo” — the 84th most common given name in Venezuela. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.