Gender Masculine
Meaning & History
Derived from the Old English elements os "god" and weald "powerful, mighty". Saint Oswald was a king of Northumbria who introduced Christianity to northeastern England in the 7th century before being killed in battle. There was also an Old Norse cognate Ásvaldr in use in England, being borne by the 10th-century Saint Oswald of Worcester, who was of Danish ancestry. Though the name had died out by the end of the Middle Ages, it was revived in the 19th century.
Related Names
Popularity
People think this name is
Name Days
Categories
Ascendance of a Bookworm characters, currently out of the US top 1000, DC Comics characters, Disney characters, Fire Emblem characters, Franz Kafka characters, How to Train Your Dragon characters, isograms, King Lear characters, leadership, Pandora Hearts characters, Peaky Blinders characters, power, Professor Layton characters, rulers, saints, Shining characters, strength, television, The Next Step characters, theophoric names, voice actors