Oval — boys' name

What the Data Says About Oval

The Social Security Administration has registered 500 babies named Oval between 1909 and 1952, spanning 44 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Oval currently falls outside the top 1,000 boys' names for 1952. The name reached its historical peak in 1920, when 34 babies received it in a single year. Oval is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 101 additional births since 1898.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Oval performed strongest in the 1920s, accumulating 186 births during that ten-year window. Across the 6 decades of recorded activity, Oval shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Kentucky, which accounts for 106 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Arkansas and Oklahoma. In total, SSA state-level files list Oval in 4 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Oval 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 500 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.