Ozella
Ozella was given to 7 girls in 2025, #12,849 among girls’ names; 2,338 Americans have been recorded with it since 1881 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Ozella by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Ozella?
#12,849 among girls’ names, 2025
Ozella entered the girls’ rankings after 2015 and stood at #12,849 in 2025.
73 babies in 1921, the peak
Ozella peaked in 1921, when 73 girls were given it, #865 among girls’ names. The 7 births of 2025 are 10% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 7 | #12,849 | 4.4 |
| 2024 | 10 | #10,074 | 6.2 |
| 2022 | 6 | #14,867 | 3.7 |
| 2021 | 8 | #11,917 | 4.9 |
| 2020 | 15 | #7,479 | 9.3 |
| 2019 | 10 | #10,285 | 6.0 |
| 2018 | 5 | #17,525 | 2.9 |
| 1976 | 5 | #10,407 | 3.4 |
| 1974 | 7 | #7,444 | 4.8 |
| 1972 | 6 | #7,946 | 3.9 |
Every recorded year (95)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970 | 12 | #4,687 | 6.9 |
| 1967 | 6 | #6,573 | 3.6 |
| 1966 | 7 | #5,660 | 4.1 |
| 1965 | 8 | #5,169 | 4.5 |
| 1964 | 7 | #5,855 | 3.7 |
| 1963 | 8 | #5,175 | 4.2 |
| 1962 | 5 | #7,290 | 2.5 |
| 1961 | 16 | #3,289 | 7.9 |
| 1960 | 8 | #5,065 | 4.0 |
| 1959 | 18 | #2,837 | 8.9 |
| 1958 | 11 | #3,873 | 5.5 |
| 1957 | 18 | #2,796 | 8.8 |
| 1956 | 20 | #2,597 | 10.0 |
| 1955 | 21 | #2,451 | 10.7 |
| 1954 | 18 | #2,671 | 9.3 |
| 1953 | 14 | #3,059 | 7.4 |
| 1952 | 19 | #2,483 | 10.2 |
| 1951 | 29 | #1,830 | 16.1 |
| 1950 | 21 | #2,170 | 12.3 |
| 1949 | 20 | #2,258 | 11.7 |
| 1948 | 24 | #1,991 | 14.1 |
| 1947 | 26 | #1,930 | 14.7 |
| 1946 | 12 | #2,991 | 7.6 |
| 1945 | 17 | #2,131 | 13.0 |
| 1944 | 24 | #1,732 | 18.1 |
| 1943 | 26 | #1,692 | 18.6 |
| 1942 | 33 | #1,433 | 24.4 |
| 1941 | 39 | #1,218 | 32.3 |
| 1940 | 24 | #1,626 | 21.0 |
| 1939 | 20 | #1,778 | 18.2 |
| 1938 | 30 | #1,367 | 27.2 |
| 1937 | 38 | #1,174 | 35.7 |
| 1936 | 26 | #1,474 | 25.0 |
| 1935 | 49 | #989 | 46.7 |
| 1934 | 43 | #1,073 | 41.2 |
| 1933 | 40 | #1,118 | 39.7 |
| 1932 | 39 | #1,155 | 36.5 |
| 1931 | 40 | #1,145 | 37.6 |
| 1930 | 53 | #1,017 | 47.1 |
| 1929 | 55 | #976 | 49.3 |
| 1928 | 42 | #1,187 | 36.4 |
| 1927 | 48 | #1,107 | 40.3 |
| 1926 | 62 | #956 | 52.3 |
| 1925 | 47 | #1,135 | 38.6 |
| 1924 | 63 | #967 | 50.4 |
| 1923 | 71 | #877 | 58.9 |
| 1922 | 56 | #1,004 | 46.6 |
| 1921 | 73 | #865 | 59.2 |
| 1920 | 72 | #855 | 60.1 |
| 1919 | 53 | #996 | 46.9 |
| 1918 | 56 | #966 | 48.4 |
| 1917 | 63 | #874 | 58.3 |
| 1916 | 68 | #822 | 65.1 |
| 1915 | 52 | #926 | 52.9 |
| 1914 | 43 | #899 | 56.5 |
| 1913 | 42 | #819 | 67.2 |
| 1912 | 36 | #845 | 64.5 |
| 1911 | 28 | #823 | 66.9 |
| 1910 | 28 | #829 | 70.6 |
| 1909 | 28 | #770 | 80.6 |
| 1908 | 20 | #907 | 59.8 |
| 1907 | 22 | #811 | 69.1 |
| 1906 | 20 | #838 | 67.7 |
| 1905 | 26 | #707 | 89.2 |
| 1904 | 10 | #1,230 | 36.3 |
| 1903 | 12 | #1,067 | 45.8 |
| 1902 | 17 | #866 | 64.4 |
| 1901 | 13 | #956 | 54.3 |
| 1900 | 18 | #913 | 60.0 |
| 1899 | 12 | #969 | 51.5 |
| 1898 | 14 | #953 | 54.1 |
| 1897 | 5 | #1,734 | 21.3 |
| 1896 | 11 | #1,032 | 46.2 |
| 1895 | 8 | #1,275 | 34.2 |
| 1894 | 6 | #1,454 | 26.9 |
| 1893 | 7 | #1,264 | 32.9 |
| 1892 | 7 | #1,246 | 33.0 |
| 1891 | 8 | #1,075 | 43.1 |
| 1889 | 10 | #890 | 56.1 |
| 1888 | 7 | #1,108 | 39.2 |
| 1887 | 6 | #1,128 | 41.1 |
| 1886 | 9 | #815 | 62.3 |
| 1885 | 6 | #1,022 | 45.1 |
| 1884 | 5 | #1,133 | 38.8 |
| 1881 | 5 | #918 | 54.4 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Ozella a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Ozella has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 95 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Ozella: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Ozella, and how old are they?
An estimated 513 Americans named Ozella and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (22% of everyone recorded); the median is 75 years old and half are between 65 and 84. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 580 people named Ozella (580 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 647 born in the U.S. The Census count is 10% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
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 Ozella born?
The states with the most babies named Ozella are Alabama, Texas and Georgia, with 54% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Alabama is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alabama | 148 | not ranked | 2.6× |
| Texas | 141 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| Georgia | 126 | not ranked | 1.9× |
| Oklahoma | 116 | not ranked | 2.8× |
| Mississippi | 106 | not ranked | 2.5× |
| Arkansas | 75 | not ranked | 2.1× |
| Tennessee | 18 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| North Carolina | 15 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| South Carolina | 11 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Pennsylvania | 6 | not ranked | 0.0× |
Where Ozella is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Ozella is most over-represented in Oklahoma: since 1910 it was given 2.8 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 girls’ 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 Ozella 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 2,681 babies since 1880, Ozella is the most given (87% 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 Ozella
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 Ozella and names like it
- Compare Ozella and OzelleBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1920sOzella peaked in 1921.
- Alabama’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Ozella since 1910.
- The top names of 1921The year the most babies were named Ozella.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Ozella alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with OMost given first.