Oneal vs Oneida
American parents have registered 3,179 Oneals since 1880, against 2,268 Oneidas. Oneal is still ahead, with 6 babies in 2025.
Babies given each name, 1880–2025
Oneal Oneida
Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.
Who was ahead
Of the 131 years in which either name was published, Oneal for 92 years and Oneida for 39 years. The lead changed hands 41 times.
- 1894–1901 Oneida ahead
- 1902–1968 Oneal ahead, apart from 5 short spells
- 1969–1985 Oneida ahead, apart from one short spell
- 1986–2022 Oneal ahead, apart from 4 short spells
28 shorter spells of a year or two are folded into the spans above rather than listed separately.
Side by side
| Oneal | Oneida | |
|---|---|---|
| Total US births | 3,179 | 2,268 |
| Most in one year | 72 | 63 |
| Babies in 2025 | 6 | under 5 |
| Estimated living today | 1,400 | 1,100 |
| Median age today | 57 | 52 |
| Peak year | 1932 | 1919 |
| Best rank | 802nd boys | 882nd girls |
| Rank in 2025 | 10,695th | unranked |
| First recorded | 1889 | 1887 |
| Girls / boys | 130 / 3,049 | 2,268 / 0 |
A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.
Which name is older
Half of the Oneals alive today are over 57; half the Oneidas are over 52. That is 5 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.
Where each one is strongest
- Oneal Alabama (16.9×), South Carolina (13.9×), Louisiana (10.8×)
- Oneida Texas (5.6×), Kentucky (5.3×), Tennessee (4.0×)
How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.
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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Oneal and Oneida.