Oneal

Oneal is the 733rd most common surname in the United States, shared by 45,929 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 6,508.

By the numbers

People: 45,929
Rank: 733rd
How common: 1 in 6,508
Per 100,000: 15.4

Where the name comes from

Origin Irish

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Oneal described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 61.7%
Black, not Hispanic 28.8%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.7%
Hispanic or Latino 3.5%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.7%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.6%

Notable people called Oneal

Shaquille O'Neal (born 1972)American basketball player
Ryan O'Neal (1941–2023)American actor
Tatum O'Neal (born 1963)American actress
Jermaine O'Neal (born 1978)American basketball player
Patrice O'Neal (1969–2011)American stand-up comedian, radio personality, and actor
Patrick O'Neal (1927–1994)American actor
Edward A. O'Neal (1818–1890)Confederate Army general and 26th governor of Alabama
Alexander O'Neal (born 1953)American musical artist

People named Oneal with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Oneal

Also a first name

Oneal has been given to 3,179 American babies as a first name since 1889, peaking in 1932. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.