Othniel
#2,718 for boys in 2025, 47 births
- Peak · boys
- 2018 · 64 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 715since 1924
Othniel over time
Rank among boys' names. Othniel has never cracked the top 2,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | boys | |
|---|---|---|
| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #2,718 | 47 |
| 2024 | #3,693 | 30 |
| 2023 | #3,293 | 36 |
| 2022 | #3,464 | 33 |
| 2021 | #2,918 | 42 |
| 2020 | #3,025 | 38 |
| 2019 | #2,394 | 56 |
| 2018 | #2,167 | 64 |
| 2017 | #2,755 | 44 |
| 2016 | #3,883 | 27 |
| 2015 | #3,513 | 31 |
| 2014 | #3,038 | 37 |
| 2013 | #4,064 | 24 |
| 2012 | #4,862 | 19 |
| 2011 | #6,578 | 12 |
| 2010 | #7,087 | 11 |
| 2009 | #7,236 | 11 |
| 2008 | #5,767 | 15 |
| 2007 | #5,901 | 14 |
| 2006 | #8,732 | 8 |
| 2005 | #8,299 | 8 |
| 2004 | #8,143 | 8 |
| 2003 | #5,558 | 13 |
| 2002 | #10,667 | 5 |
| 2001 | #8,339 | 7 |
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| 1999 | #7,139 | 8 |
| 1998 | #8,479 | 6 |
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| 1996 | #7,971 | 6 |
| 1995 | #7,792 | 6 |
| 1994 | #8,800 | 5 |
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| 1992 | #7,422 | 6 |
| 1991 | #8,236 | 5 |
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| 1986 | #5,332 | 7 |
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| 1983 | #4,499 | 8 |
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| 1981 | #4,961 | 7 |
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| 1972 | #4,441 | 6 |
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The first year at least five boys were named Othniel! It came in at #4,347, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1924–1971, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
See more about Othniel
- 975 spots since 2024 (#3,693 → #2,718)
- 307 spots since 2020 (#3,025 → #2,718)
- 795 spots since 2015 (#3,513 → #2,718)
- Debuted 1924
- Peaked 2018 at #2,167 (64 births)
- Births halved by 2024, 6 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 28,377 boys born in 2018 were named Othniel (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 36,342 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 45.5% of all boys named Othniel (325) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1920s | 5 | #4,347 (1924) | #4,347 |
| 1930s | 0 | — | — |
| 1940s | 0 | — | — |
| 1950s | 0 | — | — |
| 1960s | 0 | — | — |
| 1970s | 6 | #4,441 (1972) | #4,441 |
| 1980s | 22 | #4,499 (1983) | #4,931 |
| 1990s | 42 | #7,139 (1999) | #7,977 |
| 2000s | 89 | #5,558 (2003) | #7,627 |
| 2010s | 325 | #2,167 (2018) | #4,034 |
| 2020s | 226 | #2,718 (2025) | #3,185 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Othniel in 2018
Top boys' names in 2018
More about 2018
boys
1,816,158 boys got a published name in 2018; 1 in 28,377 of them was named Othniel, which outranked 84.7% of the 14,118 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.9% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #2,147Theodor65
- #2,147Yandel65
- #2,147Zach65
- #2,167Othniel64
- #2,167Aayush64
- #2,167Adriano64
- #2,167Alexavier64
- #2,189Bakari63
- #2,189Bennet63
- #2,189Breck63
Tied with 21 names at #2,167; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.