Onie

Last seen for girls in 1997 at #12,070 · Last seen for boys in 1955 at #3,505
Given to girls 86.6% of the time

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Peak · girls
1883 · 16 births
Debut · girls
7 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
1,786
since 1880

Onie over time

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Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201884peak #480, 1883peak #1,002, 1898girlsboys
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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1952#4,9086#3,3736
1951—#3,7145
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1947#3,44810#3,3706
1946#3,03411—
1945#4,0256—
1944#2,28715#3,4305
1943#2,25116—
1942#2,41614#3,2126
1941#2,53212#2,6568
1940#2,73710—
1939#2,12515—
1938#2,11315#3,1756
1937#1,78419#3,1756
1936#1,95016#3,5495
1935#1,60622#3,2526
1934#1,91317#3,6795
1933#1,97016#3,6425
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1931#1,75020#2,8648
1930#1,66123#3,0228
1929#1,59824—
1928#1,73823#3,6976
1927#1,42332#3,4517
1926#1,54128#3,3857
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1924#1,47532#3,8676
1923#1,42832#2,77210
1922#1,20741#2,80110
1921#1,11547#2,50212
1920#1,23339#1,74720
1919#1,05747#2,8779
1918#89464#3,7286
1917#1,11041#2,18813
1916#1,01346#3,5166
1915#94449#2,07013
1914#1,05932#2,10110
1913#90135#1,58012
1912#1,05524#2,5445
1911#80129#1,7405
1910#71035#1,3147
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1905#64230#1,2335
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1900#65629#1,1626
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1898#75020#1,0026
1897#53031#1,0575
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First appearance
1880

In the first year the SSA published name data, Onie was already there! It came in at #679, and was given to 7 baby girls.


Quietest stretch: 1950–1951, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.

Where Onie is popular in 1884

The SSA only publishes names by state from 1910 on.

See more about Onie
Momentum · girls
Faded out
  • Not published in 2025; last seen 1997
  • Biggest jump: 325 spots in 1904 (#862 → #537)
  • Biggest drop: 254 spots in 1912 (#801 → #1,055)
Rise & fade · girls
3 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1880
  • Peaked 1883 at #480 (16 births)
  • Births halved by 1945, 62 yrs later
Top of the charts · girls
Top 1,000 for 35 yrs
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: 35 yrs · run 1880–1911
Share of babies · girls
1 in 7,020
  • Highest: 1 in 7,020 girls born in 1883 were named Onie (0.01%)
  • Latest: 1 in 290,118 girls born in 1997 (0.00%)
Era · girls
The 1910s
  • 22.5% of all girls named Onie (402) were born in this decade
Girls or boys?
Flipped in 1952
  • Mostly boys until 1951, mostly girls since
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Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1880s151#480 (1883)#560
1890s255#510 (1892)#581
1900s272#537 (1904)#703
1910s402#710 (1910)#954
1920s336#1,115 (1921)#1,403
1930s183#1,606 (1935)#1,863
1940s122#2,251 (1943)#2,816
1950s38#3,490 (1954)#4,680
1960s10#6,578 (1962)#6,585
1970s5#7,995 (1970)#7,995
1980s6#9,095 (1980)#9,095
1990s6#12,070 (1997)#12,070

All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.

Onie in 1884

girls
#501
17 births · 1 in 7,589 girls

Top girls' names in 1884

  1. #1Mary9,217
  2. #2Anna3,860
  3. #3Emma2,587
  4. #4Elizabeth2,549
  5. #5Minnie2,243
  6. #6Margaret2,142
  7. #7Ida1,882
  8. #8Clara1,852
  9. #9Bertha1,789
  10. #10Annie1,739
  11. #501Onie17
More about 1884

girls

129,019 girls got a published name in 1884; 1 in 7,589 of them was named Onie, which outranked 57.3% of the 1,172 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 23.1% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Onie
  1. #479Shirley18
  2. #479Tempie18
  3. #479Velma18
  4. #501Onie17
  5. #501Alda17
  6. #501Anastasia17
  7. #501Angelina17
  8. #520Adella16
  9. #520Camilla16
  10. #520Claudie16

Tied with 18 names at #501; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1883
Risers
  1. ↑ 686Belva#920 → #234
  2. ↑ 364Anner#920 → #556
  3. ↑ 354Nella#817 → #463
  4. ↑ 337Guadalupe#920 → #583
  5. ↑ 337Nelia#920 → #583
Fallers
  1. ↓ 488Roxy#536 → #1,024
  2. ↓ 463Fredericka#561 → #1,024
  3. ↓ 445Albert#579 → #1,024
  4. ↓ 409Roseanna#615 → #1,024
  5. ↓ 373Delpha#651 → #1,024

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 1884 →