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Oneal

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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
Babies named Oneal, by year of birthboys
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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

Higher on the chart = more popularrank (gaps = outside the top 1,000)
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By decade

Decadeboys named Oneal
1880s5
1890s5
1900s58
1910s266
1920s499
1930s509
1940s430
1950s365
1960s224
1970s175
1980s129
1990s142
2000s123
2010s70
2020s43

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.

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.