Oval
Recorded for both sexesGreatest Generation2025 rank
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not recorded in 2025
2025 births
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All-time births
500
peak year 1920
More common than
83%
of all archived spellings recorded for boys, by lifetime births for that sex
- Peak year
- 1920
- 34 births
- Best rank
- #1,247
- in 1920
- First recorded
- 1909
- #1,632 that year
- Last recorded
- 1952
- no later published record
- Average birth year
- 1925
- weighted by recorded births
- Years recorded
- 40 of 146
- with gaps
Top five years
- 192034#1,247Peak
- 192228#1,427
- 191626#1,366
- 191826#1,438
- 191924#1,522
Rank over time
Inverted scale — nearer the top is more popular. Unrecorded years are left blank, not drawn as zero.
Best rank #1,247 in 1920 · peak births 34 in 1920
Boys and girls
Births per year for each sex, on one shared scale. The girls' series is dashed.
● 83% boys■ 17% girls
500 boys · 101 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 Oval has ranked, decade by decade
The band spans each decade's best and worst rank; the line follows its best.