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Oswald
Pronounced /ˈɒzwəld/
Rank in 2024
#2,118
Born in 2024
70
Peak year
1916 · #553
Origin
Old English
1880 to 2024
UncommonIts story in numbers
- In 2024, 70 boys were named Oswald, about 1 in every 24,504.
- It peaked in 1916 with 107 babies, ranked #553.
- It appears in the very first year of records, 1880.
- 4,339 boys have been named Oswald since 1880.
Who else has this name
Babies named Oswald per 1,000 born in each generation, on one shared scale.
- <0.1Greatest1901–27
- <0.1Silent1928–45
- <0.1Boomers1946–64
- <0.1Gen X1965–80
- <0.1Millennials1981–96
- <0.1Gen Z1997–12
- <0.1Gen Alpha2013–24
Greatest: 1,532 babies, 0.09 per 1,000. Silent: 631 babies, 0.03 per 1,000. Boomers: 500 babies, 0.01 per 1,000. Gen X: 324 babies, 0.01 per 1,000. Millennials: 322 babies, 0.01 per 1,000. Gen Z: 294 babies, 0.01 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 511 babies, 0.02 per 1,000.
Meaning and origin
Inherited from Old English Ōsweald, from ōs (“god, deity”) + weald (“power”). Cognate with German Answald, Faroese and Icelandic Ásvaldur, and Norwegian Nynorsk Åsvald.
- A male given name from Old English.
- Origin
- Old English
- Say it
- /ˈɒzwəld/
From Wiktionary’s entry for Oswald, CC BY-SA 4.0.