Oona
#2,751 for girls in 2025, 62 births
- Peak · girls
- 2015 · 131 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 1,776since 1942
Oona over time
Rank among girls' names. Oona has never cracked the top 1,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
|---|---|---|
| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #2,751 | 62 |
| 2024 | #2,462 | 73 |
| 2023 | #2,210 | 85 |
| 2022 | #2,228 | 84 |
| 2021 | #2,251 | 82 |
| 2020 | #2,317 | 76 |
| 2019 | #2,451 | 72 |
| 2018 | #2,334 | 78 |
| 2017 | #2,053 | 95 |
| 2016 | #1,841 | 112 |
| 2015 | #1,636 | 131 |
| 2014 | #2,739 | 63 |
| 2013 | #3,918 | 38 |
| 2012 | #3,854 | 40 |
| 2011 | #3,350 | 48 |
| 2010 | #3,745 | 41 |
| 2009 | #4,370 | 34 |
| 2008 | #4,448 | 34 |
| 2007 | #4,567 | 32 |
| 2006 | #4,073 | 36 |
| 2005 | #4,828 | 27 |
| 2004 | #4,816 | 27 |
| 2003 | #6,299 | 18 |
| 2002 | #4,767 | 25 |
| 2001 | #5,009 | 23 |
| 2000 | #5,705 | 19 |
| 1999 | #7,239 | 13 |
| 1998 | #6,073 | 16 |
| 1997 | #10,836 | 7 |
| 1996 | #5,280 | 18 |
| 1995 | #7,041 | 12 |
| 1994 | #10,569 | 7 |
| 1993 | #7,498 | 11 |
| 1992 | #13,317 | 5 |
| 1991 | — | |
| 1990 | #12,958 | 5 |
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| 1987 | #9,825 | 6 |
| 1986 | — | |
| 1985 | #9,307 | 6 |
| 1984 | #10,422 | 5 |
| 1983 | #10,275 | 5 |
| 1982 | — | |
| 1981 | #6,804 | 9 |
| 1980 | #6,789 | 9 |
| 1979 | #6,189 | 10 |
| 1978 | #6,948 | 8 |
| 1977 | #7,567 | 7 |
| 1976 | #6,048 | 9 |
| 1975 | #3,950 | 16 |
| 1974 | #3,695 | 17 |
| 1973 | #4,586 | 12 |
| 1972 | #3,276 | 19 |
| 1971 | #5,136 | 10 |
| 1970 | #7,070 | 6 |
| 1969 | #5,456 | 8 |
| 1968 | — | |
| 1967 | #5,457 | 7 |
| 1966 | #5,809 | 6 |
| 1965 | #4,831 | 8 |
| 1964 | #5,008 | 8 |
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| 1962 | #5,293 | 7 |
| 1961 | #5,309 | 7 |
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| 1954 | #5,753 | 5 |
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| 1944 | #4,574 | 5 |
| 1943 | #3,801 | 7 |
| 1942 | #4,622 | 5 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Oona! It came in at #4,622, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1944–1960, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Oona is popular in 2015
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Maine#220 · 1 in 699
- Washington#698 · 1 in 3,483
- Massachusetts#743 · 1 in 4,213
- New York#1,015 · 1 in 6,088
- California#1,207 · 1 in 8,556
Best ever in a state: #220 in Maine, 2015.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Maine | #220 | 5 | 1 in 699 |
| Washington | #698 | 9 | 1 in 3,483 |
| Massachusetts | #743 | 6 | 1 in 4,213 |
| New York | #1,015 | 15 | 1 in 6,088 |
| California | #1,207 | 24 | 1 in 8,556 |
| North Carolina | #1,391 | 5 | 1 in 9,081 |
| Ohio | #1,447 | 5 | 1 in 10,556 |
| Illinois | #1,634 | 5 | 1 in 11,706 |
| Florida | #2,074 | 5 | 1 in 17,194 |
| Texas | #2,584 | 7 | 1 in 24,239 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Oona
- 289 spots since 2024 (#2,462 → #2,751)
- 434 spots since 2020 (#2,317 → #2,751)
- 1,115 spots since 2015 (#1,636 → #2,751)
- Debuted 1942
- Peaked 2015 at #1,636 (131 births)
- Births halved by 2025, 10 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 13,627 girls born in 2015 were named Oona (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 25,924 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 40.4% of all girls named Oona (718) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1940s | 17 | #3,801 (1943) | #4,332 |
| 1950s | 5 | #5,753 (1954) | #5,753 |
| 1960s | 51 | #4,831 (1965) | #5,309 |
| 1970s | 114 | #3,276 (1972) | #5,447 |
| 1980s | 40 | #6,789 (1980) | #8,904 |
| 1990s | 94 | #5,280 (1996) | #8,979 |
| 2000s | 275 | #4,073 (2006) | #4,888 |
| 2010s | 718 | #1,636 (2015) | #2,792 |
| 2020s | 462 | #2,210 (2023) | #2,370 |
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.
Oona in 2015
Top girls' names in 2015
More about 2015
girls
1,785,098 girls got a published name in 2015; 1 in 13,627 of them was named Oona, which outranked 91.4% of the 19,130 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.4% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,622Tahlia132
- #1,622Yarely132
- #1,622Zadie132
- #1,636Oona131
- #1,636Adalina131
- #1,636Inara131
- #1,636Moira131
- #1,643Alessa130
- #1,643Althea130
- #1,643Annistyn130
Tied with 6 names at #1,636; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.