Oral

Where Oral comes from

Ultimately from Latin Aurelius.
— Wiktionary's entry for Oral
  • Latin
Along the way
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #682 among boys — 8 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1892
    Peak, #458
    18 babies named Oral — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1896
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #778.
  4. 1907
    Mostly boys from here
    Until now more girls than boys got the name; from this year it's the other way round, and has stayed that way.
  5. 1946
    Oral Çalışlar born
    Turkish journalist and writer
  6. 1962
    Oral Selkridge born
    Antigua and Barbuda sprinter
In the dictionary
  • A male given name from Latin of American usage
Namesakes
  • Oral Selkridge · Antigua and Barbuda sprinter, born 1962
  • Oral Çalışlar · Turkish journalist and writer, born 1946

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.