Oneal vs Oneta
American parents have registered 3,179 Oneals since 1880, against 1,465 Onetas. Oneal is still ahead, with 6 babies in 2025.
Babies given each name, 1880–2025
Oneal Oneta
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 129 years in which either name was published, Oneal for 111 years and Oneta for 18 years. The lead changed hands 18 times.
- 1896–1899 Oneta ahead
- 1902–1904 Oneal ahead
- 1905–1907 Oneta ahead
- 1910–1912 Oneal ahead
- 1915–1922 Oneta ahead, apart from one short spell
- 1925–2025 Oneal ahead, apart from one short spell
11 shorter spells of a year or two are folded into the spans above rather than listed separately.
Side by side
| Oneal | Oneta | |
|---|---|---|
| Total US births | 3,179 | 1,465 |
| Most in one year | 72 | 68 |
| Babies in 2025 | 6 | under 5 |
| Estimated living today | 1,400 | 240 |
| Median age today | 57 | 80 |
| Peak year | 1932 | 1922 |
| Best rank | 802nd boys | 888th girls |
| Rank in 2025 | 10,695th | unranked |
| First recorded | 1889 | 1893 |
| Girls / boys | 130 / 3,049 | 1,465 / 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 Onetas alive today are over 80; half the Oneals are over 57. That is 23 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×)
- Oneta Oklahoma (21.5×), Texas (6.6×), Missouri (5.3×)
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 Oneta.