Ovell — unisex name

What the Data Says About Ovell

The Social Security Administration has registered 34 babies named Ovell between 1910 and 1930, spanning 21 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Ovell currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 1930. The name reached its historical peak in 1919, when 9 babies received it in a single year. Ovell is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 16 additional births since 1916.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Ovell performed strongest in the 1920s, accumulating 15 births during that ten-year window. Across the 3 decades of recorded activity, Ovell shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Alabama, which accounts for 7 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Ovell in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Ovell 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 34 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.