Ovel — boys' name

What the Data Says About Ovel

The Social Security Administration has registered 28 babies named Ovel between 1914 and 1926, spanning 13 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Ovel currently falls outside the top 1,000 boys' names for 1926. The name reached its historical peak in 1918, when 6 babies received it in a single year. Ovel is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 5 additional births since 1922.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Ovel performed strongest in the 1920s, accumulating 17 births during that ten-year window. Across the 2 decades of recorded activity, Ovel shows a stable profile with only moderate drift from its peak decade. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Kentucky, which accounts for 5 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Ovel in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Ovel 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 28 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.