Okla — unisex name

What the Data Says About Okla

The Social Security Administration has registered 238 babies named Okla between 1895 and 1930, spanning 36 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Okla currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 1930. The name reached its historical peak in 1922, when 17 babies received it in a single year. Okla is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 16 additional births since 1915.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Okla performed strongest in the 1910s, accumulating 93 births during that ten-year window. Across the 5 decades of recorded activity, Okla shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Oklahoma, which accounts for 18 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Okla in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Okla 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 238 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.