Okie — unisex name

What the Data Says About Okie

The Social Security Administration has registered 181 babies named Okie between 1892 and 1934, spanning 43 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Okie currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 1934. The name reached its historical peak in 1920, when 14 babies received it in a single year. Okie is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 124 additional births since 1913.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Okie performed strongest in the 1910s, accumulating 72 births during that ten-year window. Across the 4 decades of recorded activity, Okie shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Virginia, which accounts for 6 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Kentucky. In total, SSA state-level files list Okie in 2 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Okie in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 181 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.