Oswaldo

Where Oswaldo comes from

Wiktionary's etymology listing comes up empty for Oswaldo.

  • Vowel-ended
Oswaldo through the years
  1. 1915
    First appearance
    #2,829 among boys with 8 babies, the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1921
    Oswaldo López Arellano born
    President of Honduras
  3. 1973
    Oswaldo Sánchez born
    Mexican association football player
  4. 2006
    Peak, #549
    461 babies named Oswaldo, the most in any year.
  5. 2008
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births, down to #963.
In the dictionary

Wiktionary has no entry for this spelling.

Namesakes
  • Oswaldo Sánchez · Mexican association football player, born 1973
  • Oswaldo López Arellano · President of Honduras, 1921–2010
  • Oswaldo de Oliveira · Brazilian association football player and manager, born 1950
  • Oswaldo Payá · Cuban activist, 1952–2012
  • Oswaldo Guayasamín · Ecuadorian painter, 1919–1999

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.