Osvaldo

Where Osvaldo comes from

Osvaldo 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. 1917
    First appearance
    #3,981 among boys, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1919
    Osvaldo Dorticós born
    President of Cuba
  3. 1952
    Osvaldo Ardiles born
    Argentine association football player and manager
  4. 2004
    Peak, #410
    634 babies named Osvaldo — more than any year before or since.
  5. 2010
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #724.
In the dictionary

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

Namesakes
  • Osvaldo Ardiles · Argentine association football player and manager, born 1952
  • Osvaldo Dorticós · President of Cuba, 1919–1983
  • Osvaldo Moles · Brazilian journalist, radio announcer and lyricist, 1913–1967
  • Osvaldo Hurtado · President of Ecuador, born 1939
  • Osvaldo Escudero · Argentine association football player, born 1960

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.