Oral
Oral is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 474th, in 1892.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 191799 births
- Best rank
- #474in 1892
- Since 1880
- 3,308people given the name
The story in the numbers
2,802 boys have been named Oral in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1917, with 99 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 99 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1927, and the 1920s alone account for 23%. It has spent 44 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Oral is used for both sexes: 15% of its bearers are girls (506), most of them born around 1916.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Oral | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 53 | |
| 1890s | 122 | |
| 1900s | 128 | |
| 1910s | 597 | |
| 1920s | 655 | |
| 1930s | 337 | |
| 1940s | 224 | |
| 1950s | 376 | |
| 1960s | 158 | |
| 1970s | 72 | |
| 1980s | 32 | |
| 1990s | 37 | |
| 2000s | 11 |
In 1917, its biggest year
Oral was the 598th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1917 were John, William, James, Robert and Joseph. See all of 1917.
Names that rose and fell with Oral
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Aloysiuspeak 1916
- Ludwigpeak 1916
- Waldopeak 1915
- Vesterpeak 1922
- Rupertpeak 1920
- Reinholdpeak 1917
- Ellsworthpeak 1918
- Vernepeak 1919
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.