Oral
Recorded for both sexesSilent Generation2025 rank
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not recorded in 2025
2025 births
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All-time births
2,802
peak year 1917
More common than
94%
of all archived spellings recorded for boys, by lifetime births for that sex
- Peak year
- 1917
- 99 births
- Best rank
- #474
- in 1892
- First recorded
- 1880
- #725 that year
- Last recorded
- 2003
- no later published record
- Average birth year
- 1932
- weighted by recorded births
- Years recorded
- 108 of 146
- with gaps
Top five years
- 191799#598Peak
- 192084#710
- 191583#639
- 191683#645
- 192282#728
Rank over time
Inverted scale — nearer the top is more popular. Unrecorded years are left blank, not drawn as zero.
Best rank #474 in 1892 · peak births 99 in 1917
Boys and girls
Births per year for each sex, on one shared scale. The girls' series is dashed.
● 85% boys■ 15% girls
2,802 boys · 506 girls, all time
Births by decade
Where the name's whole run sits, with the best and worst rank it held in each decade
Trajectory by decade
Where Oral has ranked, decade by decade
The band spans each decade's best and worst rank; the line follows its best.