Oriel is a rare spelling. It is summarised with Uriel, which shares its sound and spelling pattern.
Meaning not yet researched.
Oriel: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 24 in 2025. Its best rank was #3,535 in 2023.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #3,535 in 2023; #4,349 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Oriel in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#4,349 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2023, at #3,535.
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Oriel: US boys and girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 24 boys in 2025. Peak: #3,535 in 2023 · most boys in one year: 33 (2023).
In 2025, 24 US boys were named Oriel, making it the 4,349th most common boys’ name of the year, down 587 places from #3,762 in 2024. That is 6 fewer than the 30 boys named Oriel in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #3,535, reached in 2023. That year also had the most boys given the name: 33. For comparison, it was #7,893 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Fewer than five US girls were named Oriel in 2025, so it does not appear in that year’s SSA list for girls. Its best rank for girls was #3,870, reached in 1920. The most girls given the name in a single year was 13, in 1983. For comparison, it was unranked (under five girls) in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Oriel in 40 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1915 with 5 babies. In all, 453 US babies have been given the name, 30% of them girls and 70% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 148 babies named Oriel.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 181 US boys were named Oriel; the busiest of those years was 2023, with 33. In 2025 that was about 1 in 71,170 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Uriel (21,393 babies since 1880) and Oral (3,308 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.
Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Latin. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
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 Oriel 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 | — | — | 24 | #4,349 |
| 2024 | 5 | #17,070 | 30 | #3,762 |
| 2023 | — | — | 33 | #3,535 |
| 2022 | — | — | 25 | #4,265 |
| 2021 | — | — | 17 | #5,497 |
| 2020 | — | — | 14 | #6,204 |
| 2019 | — | — | 11 | #7,499 |
| 2018 | — | — | 12 | #7,011 |
| 2017 | — | — | 8 | #9,466 |
| 2016 | — | — | 7 | #10,439 |
| 2015 | — | — | 10 | #7,893 |
| 2014 | 6 | #16,038 | 8 | #9,391 |
| 2013 | — | — | 9 | #8,587 |
| 2011 | 5 | #18,866 | 9 | #8,588 |
| 2010 | — | — | 9 | #8,609 |
| 2009 | 5 | #19,473 | — | — |
| 2008 | — | — | 7 | #10,723 |
| 2007 | — | — | 6 | #11,972 |
| 2006 | — | — | 6 | #11,674 |
| 2005 | — | — | 10 | #7,509 |
| 2004 | — | — | 5 | #12,717 |
| 2003 | 6 | #15,280 | 7 | #9,351 |
| 2002 | — | — | 6 | #10,313 |
| 2001 | 5 | #17,257 | — | — |
| 1997 | — | — | 6 | #8,958 |
| 1994 | 6 | #12,960 | 9 | #6,211 |
| 1993 | 7 | #11,429 | 6 | #8,398 |
| 1992 | 5 | #14,881 | — | — |
| 1991 | 5 | #14,731 | 5 | #9,218 |
| 1990 | 6 | #12,458 | 8 | #6,256 |
| 1989 | 8 | #9,396 | — | — |
| 1988 | 5 | #13,273 | — | — |
| 1987 | 7 | #9,504 | 5 | #7,811 |
| 1986 | 10 | #6,975 | — | — |
| 1984 | 5 | #11,642 | 6 | #6,116 |
| 1983 | 13 | #5,362 | — | — |
| 1924 | 5 | #5,690 | — | — |
| 1922 | 8 | #3,926 | — | — |
| 1920 | 8 | #3,870 | — | — |
| 1915 | 5 | #4,792 | — | — |
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).