girls:
130 births since 1910
#5586 (2nd percentile)
boys:
3k births since 1889
#2278 (50th percentile)
overall:
3.2k births since 1889
#4844 (37th percentile)
The name Oneal is the #4,844 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 3,159 recorded births since 1889. This represents the 37.4% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 37.4% of all names). For boys, it ranks #2,278 (50.3% percentile) for all time with 3,029 births since 1889. For girls, it ranks #5,586 (2.2% percentile) for all time with 130 births since 1910.
Oneal first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1889 (1889 for boys and 1910 for girls). Birth data for Oneal is available in 122 out of the 135 years between 1889 and 2023 (122 years for boys and 18 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Oneal has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 95.9% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Oneal reached its peak popularity in 1935, achieving the 11.3% percentile (ranked #458) with 59 births per million. The name was most common in 1903, with 62 births per million (ranked 1.3% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2020, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Oneal ranks #911 for boys (0.0% percentile) with 3 births per million, which is 4.4% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Oneal reached its peak popularity in 1917, achieving the 1.2% percentile (ranked #570) with 11 births per million. The name was most common in 1910, with 12 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1944.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Oneal".
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Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Oneal. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 65.2% confident that Oneal is pronounced as oh-NEEL, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is OH-neel, at 28.3% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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