Oriel
- Last seen for girls in 2024 at #15,293
- #4,249 for boys in 2025, 24 births
- Given to boys 70.2% of the time
Showing
- Peak · boys
- 2023 · 33 births
- Debut · boys
- 6 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 318since 1984
Oriel over time
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Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | — | #4,249 | 24 | |
| 2024 | #15,293 | 5 | #3,693 | 30 |
| 2023 | — | #3,474 | 33 | |
| 2022 | — | #4,184 | 25 | |
| 2021 | — | #5,338 | 17 | |
| 2020 | — | #5,980 | 14 | |
| 2019 | — | #7,173 | 11 | |
| 2018 | — | #6,703 | 12 | |
| 2017 | — | #8,840 | 8 | |
| 2016 | — | #9,664 | 7 | |
| 2015 | — | #7,491 | 10 | |
| 2014 | #14,558 | 6 | #8,781 | 8 |
| 2013 | — | #8,118 | 9 | |
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| 2011 | #16,764 | 5 | #8,079 | 9 |
| 2010 | — | #8,139 | 9 | |
| 2009 | #17,294 | 5 | — | |
| 2008 | — | #9,871 | 7 | |
| 2007 | — | #10,921 | 6 | |
| 2006 | — | #10,662 | 6 | |
| 2005 | — | #7,096 | 10 | |
| 2004 | — | #11,356 | 5 | |
| 2003 | #13,844 | 6 | #8,643 | 7 |
| 2002 | — | #9,392 | 6 | |
| 2001 | #15,352 | 5 | — | |
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| 1997 | — | #8,110 | 6 | |
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| 1994 | #11,778 | 6 | #5,868 | 9 |
| 1993 | #10,588 | 7 | #7,638 | 6 |
| 1992 | #13,317 | 5 | — | |
| 1991 | #13,147 | 5 | #8,236 | 5 |
| 1990 | #11,409 | 6 | #5,823 | 8 |
| 1989 | #8,761 | 8 | — | |
| 1988 | #11,798 | 5 | — | |
| 1987 | #8,778 | 7 | #6,951 | 5 |
| 1986 | #6,612 | 10 | — | |
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| 1984 | #10,422 | 5 | #5,561 | 6 |
| 1983 | #5,148 | 13 | — | |
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First appearance
1984
The first year at least five boys were named Oriel! It came in at #5,561, and was given to 6 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1985–1989, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Oriel is popular in 2025
No state had 5 or more boys named Oriel in 2025, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.
See more about Oriel
Momentum · boys
Rising
- 556 spots since 2024 (#3,693 → #4,249)
- 1,731 spots since 2020 (#5,980 → #4,249)
- 3,242 spots since 2015 (#7,491 → #4,249)
Rise & fade · boys
39 yrs to peak
- Debuted 1984
- Peaked 2023 at #3,474 (33 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
Top of the charts · boys
Never in the top 1,000
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · boys
1 in 51,836
- Highest: 1 in 51,836 boys born in 2023 were named Oriel (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 71,170 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
Era · boys
The 2020s
- 45.0% of all boys named Oriel (143) were born in this decade
Girls or boys?
Flipped in 2010
- Mostly girls until 2009, mostly boys since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1980s | 11 | #5,561 (1984) | #6,256 |
| 1990s | 34 | #5,823 (1990) | #7,135 |
| 2000s | 47 | #7,096 (2005) | #9,706 |
| 2010s | 83 | #6,703 (2018) | #8,110 |
| 2020s | 143 | #3,474 (2023) | #4,486 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
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