Ozell
About 2,841 American babies have been named Ozell since 1902, most of them around 1937. It is given to both boys and girls. In 2025 it ranked 12,008th. About 940 Ozells are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 66.
Popularity, 1880–2025
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Girls and boys called Ozell
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Ozell crossed from girls to boys in 1931, and has stayed there for 29 of the years counted since. At its furthest it was 100% boys, and in 1962 it was 81%.
The girls’ share of each year’s babies of the name, in the 49 years in which at least 25 babies got it. The line touches the middle more often than there are crossings marked: a year or two on the other side is not a name changing hands, and only a move that holds for 5 counted years and reaches 60/40 is recorded as one. All 581 names that changed sex.
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 2,841
- Estimated living today
- 940
- Median age today
- 66
- Peak year
- 1937
- Best rank
- 967th
- Rank in 2025
- 12,008th
- First recorded
- 1902
- Girls / boys
- 1,116 / 1,725
How old the living Ozells are
born that year still alive today
Of the 2,841 babies given the name since 1902, about 940 are alive — 33 in every hundred. Roughly 40 of them are children and 510 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1959 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 Ozell is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Ozell is most concentrated in Mississippi (14.7×), Alabama (13.9×), Arkansas (9.4×), Georgia (4.5×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1937
The most popular boys’ names the year Ozell peaked:
Related names
Ozell 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.