girls:
1.1k births since 1902
#4600 (19th percentile)
boys:
1.7k births since 1909
#2990 (35th percentile)
overall:
2.8k births since 1902
#5074 (34th percentile)
The name Ozell is the #5,074 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 2,836 recorded births since 1902. This represents the 34.4% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 34.4% of all names). For boys, it ranks #2,990 (34.8% percentile) for all time with 1,720 births since 1909. For girls, it ranks #4,600 (19.5% percentile) for all time with 1,116 births since 1902.
Ozell first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1902 (1902 for girls and 1909 for boys). Birth data for Ozell is available in 104 out of the 119 years between 1902 and 2020 (97 years for boys and 57 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 Ozell has been given to both genders, with a slight preference for boys (60.6% of all recorded births). In 2020, 100.0% of babies named Ozell were boys. Interestingly, until around 1934, the name was more popular for girls (62.0% girls from 1902 to 1933), but since then it has been more commonly used for boys (81.3% boys from 1934 to 2020).
For boys, Ozell reached its peak popularity in 1937, achieving the 7.1% percentile (ranked #487) with 38 births per million. The name was most common in 1909, with 40 births per million (ranked 0.7% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2020.
For girls, Ozell reached its peak popularity in 1920, achieving the 8.1% percentile (ranked #559) with 43 births per million. The name was most common in 1910, with 48 births per million (ranked 3.7% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1964.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Ozell".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Ozell. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 86.1% confident that Ozell is pronounced as oh-ZEHL, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is OH-zehl, at 13.9% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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