Oral — boys' name

What the Data Says About Oral

The Social Security Administration has registered 2,802 babies named Oral between 1880 and 2003, spanning 124 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Oral currently falls outside the top 1,000 boys' names for 2003. The name reached its historical peak in 1917, when 99 babies received it in a single year. Oral is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 506 additional births since 1886.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Oral performed strongest in the 1920s, accumulating 655 births during that ten-year window. Across the 13 decades of recorded activity, Oral shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Missouri, which accounts for 151 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Kentucky and West Virginia. In total, SSA state-level files list Oral in 19 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Oral in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 2,802 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.