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Boy's name · #2161 in the US (2025) · Timeless
Oswald holds its lane: charted since 1880 and rarely far from where it stands today (#2161 in 2025). About 4,400 boys have carried it along the way. In all that time it has never once missed a year of the national records.
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Appears in 2020-2025 birth records of 2 states. See the full state-by-state map on this page.
See how Oswald ranks in other countries and regions.
#762 in Scotland (2025) · #1,093 in England & Wales (2025) · #1,693 in Austria (2025) · #1,944 in Canada (2025) · #2,144 in Sweden (2025) · #5,814 in France (2025) · #6,361 in Ecuador (2024) · #20,885 in Italy (2022) · #1,391 in Belgium (2020) · #137 in New Zealand (1922).
It is also an American family name — about 14,000 people carried it as a surname in the 2010 census.
Among 691 notable people named Oswald:
Lawyers & judges appear 1.68× more often than among typical names — e.g. Oswald Freisler, German lawyer (1895–1939).
About 470 boys a year are given Ozzy as their full name and 130 Ozzie.
Similar names: Ozzie · Walton · Oslo · Crawford · Harland · Wayland
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