Osval'D

Name: Osval'D: recorded bearers, distribution and rank
Creator: Mondonomo
Published: 2026-10-13
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given name · Latin script

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

Osval'D is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From English Oswald.

rarermore common

FIFinland1 in 7.9K(measured from records)
DKDenmark1 in 9.3K
SESweden1 in 17K

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 Osval'D 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.

: United States (measured from records)
: 2 (measured from records)
Record sources: 76 (measured from records)
: 1 in 7.9K (inferred from the name graph)

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts

Osval'DLatin

ОсвальдCyrillic

2 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Osvald in US United States, DK Denmark, SE Sweden and 1 more and Освальд in FI Finland.

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

Osval'D

EnglishOswald(measured from records)
Old EnglishOsweald(inferred from the name graph)via Oswald

Steps marked ◐ come from the entry for the form named above them, not from this name's own sources.

From English Oswald.

Cited for this meaning 3

Wiktionary
Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
Nordic Names

Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world

Osval'D 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 Osval'D is recorded, by country
Country					Most common spelling	Sources
US United States	—	2,810as Oswald	1 in 118K	14K	Osvald	62
FI Finland	—	704	1 in 7.9K	2.9K	Освальд	3
DK Denmark	—	633	1 in 9.3K	633	Osvald	30
SE Sweden	—	605	1 in 17K	605	Osvald	17
GY Guyana	—	435as Oswald	1 in 1.7K	435	—	—
EE Estonia	—	≈36 est.	≈1 in 34K	7	Osvald	12
LV Latvia	#484	1	1 in 1.9M	1	Osval'D	3

2,810 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020, counting the spelling oswald. 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: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025; Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed). 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 names spelled this way

Osval'D is also recorded as 9 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

Polish surname23 spellings in the group
Most recorded in Poland, United States, Czechia, Croatia
Languages: Polish, Czech, Croatian
Also written Oswald, Osvald, Osŵald, Освалд, Ošvald
Hindi given name3 spellings in the group
Most recorded in India, Latvia
Languages: Hindi, Urdu
Also written Osvald
Indonesian given name3 spellings in the group
Most recorded in India
Also written Osvald
Spanish given name7 spellings in the group
Most recorded in Argentina, United States, Chile, Brazil
Languages: Spanish, Portuguese
Also written Osvald, Ósvald
Hungarian given name3 spellings in the group
Most recorded in Latvia, Hungary
Also written Osvald, Osváld
Swahili given name2 spellings in the group
Most recorded in Latvia, United States
Also written Osvald
Polish given name2 spellings in the group
Most recorded in Poland, Latvia
Also written Osvald
Czech given name3 spellings in the group
Most recorded in Czechia, Slovakia, Slovenia
Languages: Czech, Slovak
Also written Osvald
Turkish name4 spellings in the group
Also written Osvald, Ósvald

10 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Evidence

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Osval'D 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 Osval'D mean, and where does it come from?: From English Oswald. Recorded by Wiktionary and Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon and 1 other source.
Is Osval'D a male or female name?: Osval'D 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 Osval'D have the most bearers?: In the United States, the national register counted about 2.8 thousand people named Oswald, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Osval'D most common?: Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Osval'D is densest in Finland — about 1 in 7.9 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Osval'D?: In Finland, the national register counted 704 people named Osval'D, about 1 in 7.9 thousand residents.
How common is Osval'D compared with other names?: In Latvia, Osval'D is the 484th most common given name of 11,601 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 2026-10-13 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, “Osval'D” — the 484th most common given name in Latvia. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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