# Oral (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/oral/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys and girls |
| Origin | Latin |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 3,308 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 2,802 / 506 (15% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | not in the ONS data |

## Etymology

Ultimately from Latin Aurelius.

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1925 | 13 | 2,738 |
| 1926 | 5 | 5,439 |
| 1927 | 9 | 3,499 |
| 1928 | 9 | 3,385 |
| 1929 | 10 | 3,084 |
| 1932 | 5 | 4,926 |
| 1935 | 5 | 4,734 |
| 1936 | 8 | 3,318 |
| 1937 | 6 | 4,153 |
| 1938 | 5 | 4,828 |
| 1943 | 6 | 4,564 |
| 1947 | 5 | 5,903 |
| 1949 | 5 | 5,828 |
| 1951 | 6 | 5,265 |
| 1953 | 5 | 6,302 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1978 | 6 | 5,576 |
| 1979 | 8 | 4,723 |
| 1982 | 5 | 7,075 |
| 1983 | 6 | 6,018 |
| 1984 | 9 | 4,448 |
| 1985 | 5 | 7,299 |
| 1988 | 7 | 6,259 |
| 1990 | 6 | 7,842 |
| 1991 | 5 | 9,217 |
| 1992 | 8 | 6,524 |
| 1993 | 6 | 8,395 |
| 1994 | 7 | 7,534 |
| 1997 | 5 | 10,374 |
| 2001 | 5 | 11,839 |
| 2003 | 6 | 10,513 |

## People named Oral

- Oral Selkridge, Antigua and Barbuda sprinter

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.