Oday
Oday was given to 15 boys in 2025, #6,061 among boys’ names; 164 Americans have been recorded with it since 1991 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Oday by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Oday mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Oday is “a male given name from Arabic.”
Borrowed from Arabic عُدَي (ʕuday).
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Oday?
#6,061 among boys’ names, 2025
Oday rose from #9,330 in 2015 to #6,061 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 4.2 to 8.8 per million.
19 babies in 2018, the peak
Oday peaked in 2018, when 19 boys were given it, #5,051 among boys’ names. The 15 births of 2025 are 79% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 15 | #6,061 | 8.8 |
| 2024 | 15 | #6,102 | 8.7 |
| 2023 | 14 | #6,418 | 8.2 |
| 2022 | 14 | #6,382 | 8.0 |
| 2021 | 15 | #5,953 | 8.6 |
| 2020 | 9 | #8,539 | 5.2 |
| 2019 | 12 | #7,059 | 6.7 |
| 2018 | 19 | #5,051 | 10.5 |
| 2017 | 15 | #5,989 | 8.1 |
| 2016 | 10 | #7,991 | 5.3 |
Every recorded year (14)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 8 | #9,330 | 4.2 |
| 2014 | 7 | #10,419 | 3.6 |
| 1997 | 5 | #10,353 | 2.7 |
| 1991 | 6 | #7,961 | 3.0 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Oday a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Oday has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 14 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Oday: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Oday, and how old are they?
An estimated 163 Americans named Oday and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 6 years old and half are between 3 and 9. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 390 people named Oday (14 women and girls, 376 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 83 born in the U.S. The Census count is 4.7 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Of these 3 names spelled alike, given to 4,515 babies since 1880, Oday is the second most given (3.6% of them). In 2025 it was given to 15 of their 44 babies (34%), again the second most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Oday
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Oday and names like it
- Compare Oday and OdieBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sOday peaked in 2018.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Oday since 1910.
- Arabic namesWiktionary’s origin for Oday: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2018The year the most babies were named Oday.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Oday alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with OMost given first.