Oswald
27
Babies in 2024
+575%
10-year change
2024
Peak · 27
+13%
vs 2023
Trajectory · 1996→2024
Years with no bar had fewer than 3 babies with this name — ONS suppresses counts of 2 or fewer for privacy.
About the name Oswald
Oswald is a rising UK boy's name. Registrations in 2024 (27) are up 575% on a decade earlier — one of the steeper climbs in the ONS data for England & Wales.
Oswald reached its peak in 2024, when 27 boys were registered in England & Wales — ranked #1,076 for UK boys that year. Today's count of 27 represents 100% of the peak.
Across 20 years of ONS data since 1996, a total of 211 boys have been officially registered with the name Oswald in England & Wales. In the past decade alone (2014–2024), 153 boys were registered with the name, starting from 4 in 2014 and ending at 27 in 2024.