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Ociel

Gender
Boy
Say it
oh-see-EL
US rank, 2025
#5,397 for boys

Ociel is a boys' name. In 2025 it ranked 5,397th for boys in the US (17 babies).

Where does Ociel come from?

Mexican name, perhaps a form of Oziel (biblical Uzziel)

Is Ociel a girl's or a boy's name?

Ociel is a boys' name. In 2025, it was given to 17 boys in the US. Too few girls were given it to be listed.

How popular is Ociel in the US?

Rank in 2025
#5,397among boys
Babies in 2025
17about 1 in 100,000 boys
Five-year trend
Too rare to calltoo few babies to tell
Same name in a class
under 1%chance among 15 boys

In 2025, 17 boys in the US were named Ociel, making it the 5,397th most popular name for boys. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 10,599th. Its busiest year was 2008, with 27 boys. It first appears in the records in 1980.

2025 had more boys named Ociel than any year since 2012.

Half of all the boys named Ociel in the US since 1880 were born between 1999 and 2013, the years shaded on the chart below.

In 2025, 140 boys in the US were given Ociel or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #1,219, up from #5,397 for this spelling alone.

1980Busiest: 27 in 20082025
Ociel in the US, year by year
YearBoysRank
202517#5,397
202412#6,827
20238#8,916
202210#7,762
20216#10,794
20206#10,599
20197#9,750
201813#6,341
20178#8,835
20168#8,811
201513#6,320
201416#5,481
20135#12,129
201221#4,530
201120#4,657
201016#5,475
200921#4,580
200827#3,820
200719#4,806
200621#4,366
200518#4,626
200423#3,855
200316#4,810
200214#5,124
200116#4,670
200011#5,913
199910#6,036
19989#6,308
199711#5,282
19966#7,964
19959#5,922
199414#4,284
199310#5,353
199210#5,228
19917#6,511
19906#7,171
19890–
198810#4,445
19875#6,945
19867#5,327
19850–
19840–
19830–
19820–
19818#4,507
19805#6,248

Names like Ociel

Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.

Other spellings of Ociel

Names related to Ociel

Sources

Figures from Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.

To cite this page: Nameling, “Ociel: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/ociel, updated 20 October 2026.