girls:
101 births since 1898
#5615 (2nd percentile)
boys:
500 births since 1909
#4086 (11th percentile)
overall:
601 births since 1898
#7138 (8th percentile)
The name Oval is the #7,138 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 601 recorded births since 1898. This represents the 7.7% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 7.7% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,086 (10.8% percentile) for all time with 500 births since 1909. For girls, it ranks #5,615 (1.7% percentile) for all time with 101 births since 1898.
Oval first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1898 (1898 for girls and 1909 for boys). Birth data for Oval is available in 42 out of the 55 years between 1898 and 1952 (40 years for boys and 14 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 Oval has been given predominantly to boys, with 83.2% of all recorded births being male. In 1952, 100.0% of babies named Oval were boys. Interestingly, until around 1909, the name was more popular for girls (100.0% girls from 1898 to 1908), but since then it has been more commonly used for boys (84.6% boys from 1909 to 1952).
For boys, Oval reached its peak popularity in 1920, achieving the 5.4% percentile (ranked #506) with 31 births per million. The name was most common in 1910, with 34 births per million (ranked 0.7% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1952.
For girls, Oval reached its peak popularity in 1912, achieving the 0.9% percentile (ranked #463) with 15 births per million. The name was most common in 1901, with 20 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1928.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Oval".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Oval is pronounced as OH-vuhl, which has 2 syllables.
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