Ociel is a rare spelling. It is summarised with Osiel, which shares its sound and spelling pattern.
Meaning not yet researched.
Ociel: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 17 in 2025. Its best rank was #3,898 in 2008.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #3,898 in 2008; #5,545 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Ociel in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#5,545 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2008, at #3,898.
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Ociel: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 17 boys in 2025. Peak: #3,898 in 2008 · most boys in one year: 27 (2008).
In 2025, 17 US boys were named Ociel, making it the 5,545th most common boys’ name of the year, up 1,596 places from #7,141 in 2024. That is 5 more than the 12 boys named Ociel in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #3,898, reached in 2008. That year also had the most boys given the name: 27. For comparison, it was #6,586 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Ociel in 41 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1980 with 5 babies. In all, 499 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 186 babies named Ociel.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 95 US boys were named Ociel; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 17. In 2025 that was about 1 in 100,475 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Osiel (2,995 babies since 1880), Oziel (2,718 babies since 1880) and Uziel (2,500 babies since 1880).
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Ociel in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 17 | #5,545 |
| 2024 | — | — | 12 | #7,141 |
| 2023 | — | — | 8 | #9,517 |
| 2022 | — | — | 10 | #8,147 |
| 2021 | — | — | 6 | #11,755 |
| 2020 | — | — | 6 | #11,608 |
| 2019 | — | — | 7 | #10,508 |
| 2018 | — | — | 13 | #6,602 |
| 2017 | — | — | 8 | #9,456 |
| 2016 | — | — | 8 | #9,444 |
| 2015 | — | — | 13 | #6,586 |
| 2014 | — | — | 16 | #5,647 |
| 2013 | — | — | 5 | #13,527 |
| 2012 | — | — | 21 | #4,634 |
| 2011 | — | — | 20 | #4,783 |
| 2010 | — | — | 16 | #5,665 |
| 2009 | — | — | 21 | #4,702 |
| 2008 | — | — | 27 | #3,898 |
| 2007 | — | — | 19 | #4,931 |
| 2006 | — | — | 21 | #4,466 |
| 2005 | — | — | 18 | #4,779 |
| 2004 | — | — | 23 | #3,967 |
| 2003 | — | — | 16 | #4,976 |
| 2002 | — | — | 14 | #5,319 |
| 2001 | — | — | 16 | #4,836 |
| 2000 | — | — | 11 | #6,203 |
| 1999 | — | — | 10 | #6,378 |
| 1998 | — | — | 9 | #6,689 |
| 1997 | — | — | 11 | #5,554 |
| 1996 | — | — | 6 | #8,698 |
| 1995 | — | — | 9 | #6,268 |
| 1994 | — | — | 14 | #4,472 |
| 1993 | — | — | 10 | #5,668 |
| 1992 | — | — | 10 | #5,541 |
| 1991 | — | — | 7 | #7,061 |
| 1990 | — | — | 6 | #7,834 |
| 1988 | — | — | 10 | #4,685 |
| 1987 | — | — | 5 | #7,799 |
| 1986 | — | — | 7 | #5,755 |
| 1981 | — | — | 8 | #4,833 |
| 1980 | — | — | 5 | #6,988 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).