Oriel
Oriel was given to 24 boys in 2025, #4,348 among boys’ names; 453 Americans have been recorded with it since 1915 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Oriel by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Oriel?
#4,348 among boys’ names, 2025
Oriel rose from #7,888 in 2015 to #4,348 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 5.2 to 14.1 per million.
35 babies in 2024, the peak
Oriel peaked in 2024, when 35 babies were given it (30 boys, #3,760 among boys’ names). The 24 births of 2025 are 69% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | under 5 | 24 | #4,348 | |
| 2024 | 5 | #17,065 | 30 | #3,760 |
| 2023 | under 5 | 33 | #3,533 | |
| 2022 | under 5 | 25 | #4,261 | |
| 2021 | under 5 | 17 | #5,492 | |
| 2020 | under 5 | 14 | #6,200 | |
| 2019 | under 5 | 11 | #7,494 | |
| 2018 | under 5 | 12 | #7,007 | |
| 2017 | under 5 | 8 | #9,461 | |
| 2016 | under 5 | 7 | #10,434 |
Every recorded year (40)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | under 5 | 10 | #7,888 | |
| 2014 | 6 | #16,032 | 8 | #9,385 |
| 2013 | under 5 | 9 | #8,582 | |
| 2011 | 5 | #18,858 | 9 | #8,581 |
| 2010 | under 5 | 9 | #8,603 | |
| 2009 | 5 | #19,467 | under 5 | |
| 2008 | under 5 | 7 | #10,716 | |
| 2007 | under 5 | 6 | #11,966 | |
| 2006 | under 5 | 6 | #11,667 | |
| 2005 | under 5 | 10 | #7,502 | |
| 2004 | under 5 | 5 | #12,710 | |
| 2003 | 6 | #15,273 | 7 | #9,344 |
| 2002 | under 5 | 6 | #10,306 | |
| 2001 | 5 | #17,250 | under 5 | |
| 1997 | under 5 | 6 | #8,952 | |
| 1994 | 6 | #12,954 | 9 | #6,205 |
| 1993 | 7 | #11,423 | 6 | #8,392 |
| 1992 | 5 | #14,873 | under 5 | |
| 1991 | 5 | #14,724 | 5 | #9,211 |
| 1990 | 6 | #12,452 | 8 | #6,249 |
| 1989 | 8 | #9,390 | under 5 | |
| 1988 | 5 | #13,266 | under 5 | |
| 1987 | 7 | #9,499 | 5 | #7,804 |
| 1986 | 10 | #6,971 | under 5 | |
| 1984 | 5 | #11,637 | 6 | #6,112 |
| 1983 | 13 | #5,361 | under 5 | |
| 1924 | 5 | #5,688 | under 5 | |
| 1922 | 8 | #3,924 | under 5 | |
| 1920 | 8 | #3,868 | under 5 | |
| 1915 | 5 | #4,790 | under 5 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Oriel a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 453 Americans recorded as Oriel, 30% are girls and 70% boys. In 2025 it went to 24 boys; SSA lists no girls with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Oriel: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Oriel, and how old are they?
An estimated 420 Americans named Oriel and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (93% of everyone recorded); the median is 13 years old and half are between 4 and 32. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 583 people named Oriel (189 women and girls, 394 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 279 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.1 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Of these 4 names spelled alike, given to 4,661 babies since 1880, Oriel is the third most given (9.7% of them). In 2025 it was given to 24 of their 30 babies (80%), the most given that year.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Oriel
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Oriel and names like it
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- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Oriel alive today were born 2013-2025.
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