Oneal
#11,638 in 2025Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Oneal has been given to 3,179 babies in the U.S. since 1889. In 2025 it ranked #11,638 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1932, with 63 recorded.
Babies named Oneal, 2025
1 in 553,000
Oneal over time, 1880–2025
Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Oneal?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 553,000
- 6 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 285,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #11,638
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 382,984 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Oneal sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 382,984 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Oneal. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Oneals were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Oneal was born before 1944 — so the typical Oneal is around 81 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1930s
- 16.7% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 7.2%
- Mostly a past generation
- Recorded since 1950
- 1,277
- People you could plausibly meet
1930s — 16.7% of all recorded uses (509).
Is Oneal rising or falling?
Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.
- Rank vs 1 year ago
- −4,922
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- −4,719
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- −3,108
- Places dropped
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 0.67×
- Fewer babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 9.5%
- Peak was 1932 (63)
- Years since peak
- 93
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 46.4% average annual change
Spellings of Oneal
Oneal is not the most common spelling — Neil is, with 48.1% against Oneal's 1.4%.
Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.
Where Oneal is used
Across 1910–2025, Oneal was most concentrated in Alabama — about 1 in 8,333 boys, against 1 in 52,101 across all states with data. It was least common in Tennessee (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1Alabama1 in 8,333
- 2South Carolina1 in 10,000
- 3Louisiana1 in 12,500
- 4Mississippi1 in 25,000
- 5Arkansas1 in 100,000
- 6Georgia1 in 100,000
- 7Texas1 in 100,000
- 8Florida1 in —
Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Oneal has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Oneal around the world
Where Oneal ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.
- France1997–2017#5,338in 2017
Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.
Oneal by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a boy's name
Names similar to Oneal
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Names with a curve like Oneal
Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Oneal, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.
Sibling names for Oneal
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.