Oziel
Oziel was given to 229 boys in 2025, #997 among boys’ names; 2,718 Americans have been recorded with it since 1963 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,680 Americans named Oziel and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 13 years old and half are between 4 and 21.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Oziel by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Oziel?
#997 among boys’ names, 2025
Oziel rose from #1,972 in 2015 to #997 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 0.04 to 0.13 per 1,000.
229 babies in 2025, the peak
Oziel peaked in 2025, when 229 boys were given it, #997 among boys’ names. In 2024 it went to 205 boys.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 229 | #997 | 0.13 |
| 2024 | 205 | #1,065 | 0.12 |
| 2023 | 126 | #1,447 | 0.07 |
| 2022 | 138 | #1,358 | 0.08 |
| 2021 | 111 | #1,573 | 0.06 |
| 2020 | 79 | #1,886 | 0.05 |
| 2019 | 67 | #2,143 | 0.04 |
| 2018 | 78 | #1,912 | 0.04 |
| 2017 | 63 | #2,164 | 0.03 |
| 2016 | 75 | #1,954 | 0.04 |
Every recorded year (54)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 74 | #1,972 | 0.04 |
| 2014 | 77 | #1,899 | 0.04 |
| 2013 | 68 | #2,014 | 0.04 |
| 2012 | 92 | #1,672 | 0.05 |
| 2011 | 110 | #1,482 | 0.06 |
| 2010 | 75 | #1,909 | 0.04 |
| 2009 | 84 | #1,794 | 0.04 |
| 2008 | 67 | #2,082 | 0.03 |
| 2007 | 70 | #2,013 | 0.03 |
| 2006 | 73 | #1,869 | 0.04 |
| 2005 | 64 | #1,975 | 0.03 |
| 2004 | 70 | #1,796 | 0.04 |
| 2003 | 61 | #1,924 | 0.03 |
| 2002 | 49 | #2,182 | 0.03 |
| 2001 | 48 | #2,171 | 0.02 |
| 2000 | 43 | #2,281 | 0.02 |
| 1999 | 44 | #2,155 | 0.02 |
| 1998 | 24 | #3,261 | 0.01 |
| 1997 | 30 | #2,660 | 0.02 |
| 1996 | 30 | #2,575 | 0.02 |
| 1995 | 26 | #2,822 | 0.01 |
| 1994 | 26 | #2,822 | 0.01 |
| 1993 | 27 | #2,668 | 0.01 |
| 1992 | 18 | #3,564 | 0.01 |
| 1991 | 20 | #3,190 | 0.01 |
| 1990 | 20 | #3,131 | 0.01 |
| 1989 | 16 | #3,565 | 0.01 |
| 1988 | 17 | #3,170 | 0.01 |
| 1987 | 6 | #6,723 | under 0.01 |
| 1986 | 10 | #4,380 | 0.01 |
| 1985 | 11 | #3,969 | 0.01 |
| 1984 | 6 | #6,117 | under 0.01 |
| 1982 | 11 | #3,880 | 0.01 |
| 1981 | 7 | #5,335 | under 0.01 |
| 1980 | 11 | #3,782 | 0.01 |
| 1979 | 5 | #6,775 | under 0.01 |
| 1978 | 6 | #5,578 | under 0.01 |
| 1977 | 10 | #3,772 | 0.01 |
| 1975 | 6 | #5,284 | under 0.01 |
| 1973 | 10 | #3,379 | 0.01 |
| 1971 | 7 | #4,265 | under 0.01 |
| 1970 | 7 | #4,126 | under 0.01 |
| 1969 | 6 | #4,284 | under 0.01 |
| 1963 | 5 | #4,466 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Oziel a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Oziel has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 54 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Oziel: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Oziel, and how old are they?
2,680 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 2,718 Americans ever recorded as Oziel. The median Oziel alive today is 13 years old; half are between 4 and 21.
The 2020 Census counted 1,949 people named Oziel (12 women and girls, 1,937 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,822 born in the U.S. The Census count is 7% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 4 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 61 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 240 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 989 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,380 |
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 Oziel born?
The states with the most babies named Oziel are Texas, California and Illinois, with 72% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 74 | #457 | 4.9× |
| California | 43 | #652 | 0.9× |
| Illinois | 14 | #671 | 0.8× |
| Colorado | 9 | #608 | 0.4× |
| Arizona | 8 | #760 | 0.7× |
| New York | 7 | #1,524 | 0.2× |
| Louisiana | 6 | #743 | 0.1× |
| North Carolina | 6 | #1,242 | 0.1× |
| New Mexico | 5 | #411 | 0.3× |
| Nevada | 5 | #575 | 0.2× |
Where Oziel is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Oziel is most over-represented in Texas: since 1963 it was given 4.9 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 Oziel 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 4 names spelled alike, given to 5,786 babies since 1880, Oziel is the second most given (47% of them). In 2025 it was given to 229 of their 261 babies (88%), the most given that year.
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 Oziel
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 Oziel and names like it
- Compare Oziel and OzellBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sOziel peaked in 2025.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Oziel since 1910.
- The top names of 2025The year the most babies were named Oziel.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Oziel alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with OMost given first.