Otoniel
Otoniel was given to 15 boys in 2025, #6,066 among boys’ names; 1,075 Americans have been recorded with it since 1958 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,040 Americans named Otoniel and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (96% of everyone recorded); the median is 25 years old and half are between 15 and 35.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Otoniel by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Otoniel?
#6,066 among boys’ names, 2025
Otoniel fell from #4,255 in 2015 to #6,066 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 12.5 to 8.8 per million.
39 babies in 1995, the peak
Otoniel peaked in 1995, when 39 boys were given it, #2,124 among boys’ names. The 15 births of 2025 are 38% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 15 | #6,066 | 8.8 |
| 2024 | 12 | #7,145 | 7.0 |
| 2023 | 19 | #5,193 | 11.1 |
| 2022 | 23 | #4,538 | 13.2 |
| 2021 | 11 | #7,444 | 6.3 |
| 2020 | 24 | #4,236 | 13.9 |
| 2019 | 21 | #4,754 | 11.7 |
| 2018 | 9 | #8,641 | 5.0 |
| 2017 | 18 | #5,246 | 9.7 |
| 2016 | 20 | #4,896 | 10.5 |
Every recorded year (61)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 24 | #4,255 | 12.5 |
| 2014 | 11 | #7,409 | 5.7 |
| 2013 | 22 | #4,426 | 11.6 |
| 2012 | 21 | #4,632 | 11.1 |
| 2011 | 24 | #4,181 | 12.6 |
| 2010 | 31 | #3,510 | 16.2 |
| 2009 | 21 | #4,701 | 10.6 |
| 2008 | 22 | #4,496 | 10.8 |
| 2007 | 25 | #4,088 | 12.0 |
| 2006 | 24 | #4,066 | 11.7 |
| 2005 | 31 | #3,295 | 15.5 |
| 2004 | 28 | #3,427 | 14.1 |
| 2003 | 25 | #3,594 | 12.7 |
| 2002 | 31 | #2,995 | 16.0 |
| 2001 | 18 | #4,414 | 9.3 |
| 2000 | 31 | #2,901 | 15.8 |
| 1999 | 24 | #3,339 | 12.5 |
| 1998 | 27 | #2,994 | 14.1 |
| 1997 | 23 | #3,235 | 12.2 |
| 1996 | 22 | #3,262 | 11.6 |
| 1995 | 39 | #2,124 | 20.5 |
| 1994 | 25 | #2,913 | 12.9 |
| 1993 | 30 | #2,487 | 15.3 |
| 1992 | 25 | #2,792 | 12.5 |
| 1991 | 24 | #2,796 | 11.9 |
| 1990 | 16 | #3,723 | 7.8 |
| 1989 | 17 | #3,406 | 8.5 |
| 1988 | 7 | #6,254 | 3.7 |
| 1987 | 7 | #5,917 | 3.7 |
| 1986 | 20 | #2,662 | 10.9 |
| 1985 | 16 | #3,042 | 8.7 |
| 1984 | 12 | #3,615 | 6.6 |
| 1983 | 9 | #4,396 | 5.0 |
| 1982 | 15 | #3,063 | 8.3 |
| 1981 | 10 | #4,073 | 5.6 |
| 1980 | 23 | #2,265 | 12.9 |
| 1979 | 9 | #4,308 | 5.2 |
| 1978 | 8 | #4,450 | 4.9 |
| 1977 | 11 | #3,533 | 6.7 |
| 1976 | 8 | #4,300 | 5.1 |
| 1975 | 6 | #5,282 | 3.8 |
| 1974 | 13 | #2,901 | 8.3 |
| 1972 | 14 | #2,628 | 8.6 |
| 1971 | 6 | #4,767 | 3.4 |
| 1970 | 12 | #2,839 | 6.5 |
| 1969 | 6 | #4,283 | 3.4 |
| 1967 | 5 | #4,391 | 2.9 |
| 1966 | 5 | #4,371 | 2.8 |
| 1964 | 5 | #4,461 | 2.5 |
| 1963 | 9 | #2,998 | 4.4 |
| 1958 | 6 | #3,823 | 2.8 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Otoniel a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Otoniel has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 61 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Otoniel: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Otoniel, and how old are they?
1,040 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 96% of the 1,075 Americans ever recorded as Otoniel. The median Otoniel alive today is 25 years old; half are between 15 and 35.
The 2020 Census counted 2,541 people named Otoniel (4 women and girls, 2,537 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 949 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.7 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.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 15 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 113 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 281 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 399 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 227 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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).
Where are babies named Otoniel born?
The states with the most babies named Otoniel are California, Texas and New York, with 100% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 182 | not ranked | 1.3× |
| Texas | 116 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| New York | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
Where Otoniel is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Otoniel is most over-represented in California: since 1958 it was given 1.3 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Otoniel with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 2 names spelled alike, given to 1,204 babies since 1880, Otoniel is the most given (89% of them).
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 Otoniel
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 Otoniel and names like it
- Compare Otoniel and OtnielBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sOtoniel peaked in 1995.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Otoniel since 1910.
- The top names of 1995The year the most babies were named Otoniel.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Otoniel alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with OMost given first.