Oneal
Oneal is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 13 births. Its best rank was 784th, in 1935.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 130.00% of boys
- Peak year
- 193263 births
- Best rank
- #784in 1935
- Since 1889
- 3,173people given the name
The story in the numbers
3,043 boys have been named Oneal in the United States since 1889, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1932, with 63 births.
It is holding steady: its share of births has moved by less than half in either direction over ten years.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1944, and the 1930s alone account for 17%. It has spent 20 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 130 girls have also been given it, 4.1% of the total.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Oneal | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 5 | |
| 1890s | 5 | |
| 1900s | 58 | |
| 1910s | 266 | |
| 1920s | 499 | |
| 1930s | 509 | |
| 1940s | 430 | |
| 1950s | 365 | |
| 1960s | 224 | |
| 1970s | 175 | |
| 1980s | 129 | |
| 1990s | 142 | |
| 2000s | 123 | |
| 2010s | 70 | |
| 2020s | 43 |
In 1932, its biggest year
Oneal was the 810th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1932 were Robert, James, John, William and Richard. See all of 1932.
Names that rose and fell with Oneal
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Altonpeak 1937
- Talmadgepeak 1933
- Odellpeak 1922
- Ezellpeak 1951
- Hershelpeak 1924
- Leamonpeak 1921
- Franklynpeak 1933
- Hershellpeak 1920
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.