Othniel
The boy's name Othniel has been in the national records since 1924, with 715 births to its name. In 2025 it ranked 2,718th. About 700 Othniels are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 8.
Popularity, 1880–2025
boys named Othniel
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 715
- Estimated living today
- 700
- Median age today
- 8
- Peak year
- 2018
- Best rank
- 2,167th
- Rank in 2025
- 2,718th
- First recorded
- 1924
How old the living Othniels are
born that year still alive today
Of the 715 babies given the name since 1924, about 700 are alive — 98 in every hundred. Roughly 570 of them are children and 0 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2017 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
Origin Hebrew
From Biblical Hebrew עָתְנִיאֵל, of meaning but at any rate ending in אֵל (“God”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Othniels
- Othniel Charles Marsh (1831–1899)American paleontologist
People named Othniel with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Othniel is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Othniel is most concentrated in Texas (5.0×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2018
The most popular boys’ names the year Othniel peaked:
Othniel elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| England and Wales boys | Othniel | 223 | 1,132nd |
| France boys | Othniel | 160 | 2,404th |
| Belgium boys | Othniel | 10 | 1,366th |
| Scotland boys | Othniel | 4 | 619th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Related names
Othniel against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.