Meaning not yet researched.
Oziel: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 229 in 2025. Its best rank was #997 in 2025.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Its highest rank in 146 years of records is this year’s. Every baby recorded as Oziel in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#997 for US boys in 2025, its highest rank in 146 years of records.
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Oziel: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 229 boys in 2025. Peak: #997 in 2025 · most boys in one year: 229 (2025).
In 2025, 229 US boys were named Oziel, making it the 997th most common boys’ name of the year, up 68 places from #1,065 in 2024. That is 24 more than the 205 boys named Oziel in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #997, reached in this year, 2025. That year also had the most boys given the name: 229. For comparison, it was #1,972 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Oziel in 54 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1963 with 5 babies. In all, 2,718 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 888 babies named Oziel.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,171 US boys were named Oziel; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 229. In 2025 that was about 1 in 7,459 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Oziel ranked highest in New Mexico in 2025, at #411 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Osiel (2,995 babies since 1880), Ozell (2,841 babies since 1880) and Uziel (2,500 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Uzziel are summarised on this page.
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.
Rare spellings summarised here: Uzziel (669).
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 Oziel in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 40 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Mexico | 5 | #411 | — |
| Texas | 74 | #457 | #704 |
| Nevada | 5 | #575 | — |
| Colorado | 9 | #608 | — |
| California | 43 | #652 | #1,605 |
| Illinois | 14 | #671 | #1,289 |
| Louisiana | 6 | #743 | — |
| Arizona | 8 | #760 | — |
| Virginia | 5 | #1,214 | — |
| North Carolina | 6 | #1,242 | — |
| New York | 7 | #1,524 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 229 | #997 |
| 2024 | — | — | 205 | #1,065 |
| 2023 | — | — | 126 | #1,447 |
| 2022 | — | — | 138 | #1,358 |
| 2021 | — | — | 111 | #1,573 |
| 2020 | — | — | 79 | #1,886 |
| 2019 | — | — | 67 | #2,144 |
| 2018 | — | — | 78 | #1,913 |
| 2017 | — | — | 63 | #2,165 |
| 2016 | — | — | 75 | #1,954 |
| 2015 | — | — | 74 | #1,972 |
| 2014 | — | — | 77 | #1,900 |
| 2013 | — | — | 68 | #2,015 |
| 2012 | — | — | 92 | #1,673 |
| 2011 | — | — | 110 | #1,482 |
| 2010 | — | — | 75 | #1,910 |
| 2009 | — | — | 84 | #1,795 |
| 2008 | — | — | 67 | #2,083 |
| 2007 | — | — | 70 | #2,013 |
| 2006 | — | — | 73 | #1,870 |
| 2005 | — | — | 64 | #1,979 |
| 2004 | — | — | 70 | #1,799 |
| 2003 | — | — | 61 | #1,928 |
| 2002 | — | — | 49 | #2,186 |
| 2001 | — | — | 48 | #2,175 |
| 2000 | — | — | 43 | #2,285 |
| 1999 | — | — | 44 | #2,158 |
| 1998 | — | — | 24 | #3,265 |
| 1997 | — | — | 30 | #2,664 |
| 1996 | — | — | 30 | #2,580 |
| 1995 | — | — | 26 | #2,827 |
| 1994 | — | — | 26 | #2,827 |
| 1993 | — | — | 27 | #2,674 |
| 1992 | — | — | 18 | #3,570 |
| 1991 | — | — | 20 | #3,196 |
| 1990 | — | — | 20 | #3,137 |
| 1989 | — | — | 16 | #3,571 |
| 1988 | — | — | 17 | #3,175 |
| 1987 | — | — | 6 | #6,730 |
| 1986 | — | — | 10 | #4,384 |
| 1985 | — | — | 11 | #3,973 |
| 1984 | — | — | 6 | #6,121 |
| 1982 | — | — | 11 | #3,882 |
| 1981 | — | — | 7 | #5,337 |
| 1980 | — | — | 11 | #3,783 |
| 1979 | — | — | 5 | #6,777 |
| 1978 | — | — | 6 | #5,581 |
| 1977 | — | — | 10 | #3,774 |
| 1975 | — | — | 6 | #5,286 |
| 1973 | — | — | 10 | #3,381 |
| 1971 | — | — | 7 | #4,267 |
| 1970 | — | — | 7 | #4,128 |
| 1969 | — | — | 6 | #4,285 |
| 1963 | — | — | 5 | #4,468 |
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).