Oswaldo

Where Oswaldo comes from

Oswaldo hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1915
    First appearance
    #2,829 among boys, 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 — more than any year before or since.
  5. 2008
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #963.
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

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.