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The oswald Surname

oswald Name Meaning and History

  1. Scottish, northern English, and German: from an Old English personal name composed of the elements os ‘god’ + weald ‘power’. In the Middle English period, this fell together with the less common Old Norse cognate Ásvaldr. The name was introduced to Germany from England, as a result of the fame of St. Oswald, a 7th-century king of Northumbria, whose deeds were reported by Celtic missionaries to southern Germany. The name was also borne by a 10th-century English saint of Danish parentage, who was important as a monastic reformer.
  2. Irish: adopted as an English equivalent of Gaelic Ó hEodhusa (see Hussey 1).

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of oswald Families in the US in 1920
Number of oswald families
 173-344
 58-172		 1-57
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