Okie
Okie was last recorded in 1967, when 5 babies were given it; 305 Americans have been recorded with it between 1892 and 1967 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Okie by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Okie?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #3,090, in 1934; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
23 babies in 1920, the peak
Okie peaked in 1920, when 23 babies were given it (14 girls, #2,555 among girls’ names). It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1967 | under 5 | 5 | #4,382 | |
| 1948 | under 5 | 5 | #4,040 | |
| 1943 | under 5 | 5 | #3,908 | |
| 1942 | under 5 | 7 | #3,129 | |
| 1940 | under 5 | 6 | #3,367 | |
| 1939 | under 5 | 5 | #3,834 | |
| 1937 | under 5 | 6 | #3,416 | |
| 1934 | 9 | #3,090 | under 5 | |
| 1933 | 5 | #4,696 | 8 | #2,926 |
| 1932 | 5 | #4,921 | 10 | #2,587 |
Every recorded year (31)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1931 | 5 | #4,807 | 6 | #3,652 |
| 1930 | 8 | #3,574 | 6 | #3,889 |
| 1929 | 5 | #5,096 | under 5 | |
| 1928 | 8 | #3,669 | 9 | #3,005 |
| 1927 | 9 | #3,494 | under 5 | |
| 1925 | 7 | #4,326 | under 5 | |
| 1923 | 7 | #4,268 | under 5 | |
| 1922 | 12 | #2,915 | 6 | #4,184 |
| 1921 | 9 | #3,594 | under 5 | |
| 1920 | 14 | #2,555 | 9 | #3,140 |
| 1919 | 6 | #4,660 | 7 | #3,650 |
| 1918 | 5 | #5,384 | 7 | #3,609 |
| 1917 | 5 | #5,120 | under 5 | |
| 1916 | 10 | #2,976 | under 5 | |
| 1915 | 7 | #3,698 | 5 | #4,225 |
| 1914 | 6 | #3,502 | 7 | #2,834 |
| 1913 | 7 | #2,740 | 5 | #3,130 |
| 1912 | 9 | #2,094 | under 5 | |
| 1911 | 8 | #1,914 | under 5 | |
| 1910 | 9 | #1,731 | under 5 | |
| 1892 | 6 | #1,406 | under 5 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Okie a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 305 Americans recorded as Okie, 59% are girls and 41% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Okie: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Okie, and how old are they?
An estimated 23 Americans named Okie and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026, too few to state an age range. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 154 people named Okie (58 women and girls, 96 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 46 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3.3 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 7,298 babies since 1880, Okie is the second most given (4.2% of them). In 2025 none of their 20 babies recorded by SSA was a Okie (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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.
More about Okie and names like it
- Compare Okie and OcieBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1920sOkie peaked in 1920.
- Kentucky’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Okie since 1910.
- The top names of 1920The year the most babies were named Okie.
- Names starting with OMost given first.