Oniel

#9,468 in 2025Boys' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Oniel has been given to 254 babies in the U.S. since 1913. In 2025 it ranked #9,468 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1993, with 13 recorded.

Babies named Oniel, 2025

1 in 414,000

Oniel over time, 1880–2025

Boys

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Oniel: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Oniel means

Oniel is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Oniel is used in English.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 254 boys were recorded with the name Oniel between 1913 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 13 in 1993; its best national rank was #2,712 in 1913.

Over 10 years its rank rose, from #11,715 in 2015 to #9,468 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

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How common is Oniel?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025: 1 in 414,000; 8 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only: 1 in 213,000; <0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025: #9,468; of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size: 287,238 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Oniel sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

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.

Class of 20Under 1%

Class of 30Under 1%

Grade of 100Under 1%

School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 287,238 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Oniel. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Oniels were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Oniel was born before 2001 — so the typical Oniel is around 24 today.

Median birth year: 2001; About 24 years old
Biggest decade: 2000s; 25.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 52.4%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 226; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

2000s — 25.2% of all recorded uses (64).

Is Oniel 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: +1,167; Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago: New entry; Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago: +2,247; Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago: 1.33×; More babies than then
Share of its own peak: 61.5%; Peak was 1993 (13)
Years since peak: 32; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Shifting; 22.9% average annual change
Best rank ever: #2,712; 1913

Spellings of Oniel

Oniel is not the most common spelling — Daniel is, with 81.4% against Oniel's 0.01%.

Daniel81.4%1,982,812
Angel10.9%265,886
Noel2.1%52,096
Ariel0.90%21,968
Uriel0.86%21,075
Nigel0.50%12,286
Aziel0.36%8,721
Eliel0.20%4,922

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 Oniel is used

Across 1910–2025, Oniel was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 2,220,640 across all states with data.

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State popularity map

Most concentrated

1New York1 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. Oniel has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Oniel by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025: #9,468
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: New entry
Best rank ever: #2,712; 1913
Peak year: 1993; 13 that year
First recorded: 1913
Last recorded: 2025
All-time count: 254
Count in 2025: 8

Names similar to Oniel

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

Onix Usiel Axiel Oriel Zaiel Kaiel Eziel Aniel Jaiel Ediel Ociel Onis Juniel Joriel Onie Emiel Eriel Jehiel Ciel Ithiel Asriel Remiel Yuriel Noriel

Sibling names for Oniel

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

For a sister

Kia Jacquelynn Shelbi Shelbie Breonna Salena Kacy Ciera

For a brother

Coty Brandan Trever Mitchel Bradly Elizabeth Derrell Jarod

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