Oleta
Oleta was last recorded in 2021, when 7 babies were given it; 5,472 Americans have been recorded with it between 1888 and 2021 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Oleta by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Oleta?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #13,138, in 2021; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
216 babies in 1920, the peak
Oleta peaked in 1920, when 216 girls were given it, #459 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 7 | #13,138 | under 0.01 |
| 2015 | 5 | #18,430 | under 0.01 |
| 1992 | 5 | #14,859 | under 0.01 |
| 1991 | 10 | #8,410 | 0.01 |
| 1983 | 8 | #7,823 | under 0.01 |
| 1981 | 7 | #8,755 | under 0.01 |
| 1980 | 7 | #8,786 | under 0.01 |
| 1979 | 8 | #7,815 | under 0.01 |
| 1978 | 5 | #10,921 | under 0.01 |
| 1977 | 7 | #8,155 | under 0.01 |
Every recorded year (91)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1976 | 6 | #8,885 | under 0.01 |
| 1975 | 8 | #6,939 | 0.01 |
| 1974 | 8 | #6,680 | 0.01 |
| 1973 | 5 | #9,353 | under 0.01 |
| 1972 | 12 | #4,712 | 0.01 |
| 1971 | 8 | #6,420 | under 0.01 |
| 1970 | 8 | #6,194 | under 0.01 |
| 1969 | 10 | #4,948 | 0.01 |
| 1968 | 17 | #3,269 | 0.01 |
| 1967 | 5 | #7,536 | under 0.01 |
| 1966 | 15 | #3,361 | 0.01 |
| 1965 | 9 | #4,737 | 0.01 |
| 1964 | 18 | #3,067 | 0.01 |
| 1963 | 16 | #3,287 | 0.01 |
| 1962 | 11 | #4,200 | 0.01 |
| 1961 | 13 | #3,741 | 0.01 |
| 1960 | 23 | #2,556 | 0.01 |
| 1959 | 22 | #2,498 | 0.01 |
| 1958 | 24 | #2,363 | 0.01 |
| 1957 | 27 | #2,149 | 0.01 |
| 1956 | 28 | #2,090 | 0.01 |
| 1955 | 30 | #1,970 | 0.02 |
| 1954 | 27 | #2,061 | 0.01 |
| 1953 | 25 | #2,109 | 0.01 |
| 1952 | 19 | #2,481 | 0.01 |
| 1951 | 37 | #1,570 | 0.02 |
| 1950 | 26 | #1,897 | 0.02 |
| 1949 | 31 | #1,727 | 0.02 |
| 1948 | 44 | #1,400 | 0.03 |
| 1947 | 35 | #1,624 | 0.02 |
| 1946 | 39 | #1,411 | 0.02 |
| 1945 | 43 | #1,227 | 0.03 |
| 1944 | 59 | #1,026 | 0.04 |
| 1943 | 70 | #943 | 0.05 |
| 1942 | 69 | #948 | 0.05 |
| 1941 | 60 | #955 | 0.05 |
| 1940 | 73 | #838 | 0.06 |
| 1939 | 78 | #774 | 0.07 |
| 1938 | 88 | #734 | 0.08 |
| 1937 | 69 | #832 | 0.06 |
| 1936 | 87 | #717 | 0.08 |
| 1935 | 92 | #703 | 0.09 |
| 1934 | 112 | #634 | 0.11 |
| 1933 | 117 | #602 | 0.12 |
| 1932 | 113 | #632 | 0.11 |
| 1931 | 123 | #599 | 0.12 |
| 1930 | 111 | #653 | 0.10 |
| 1929 | 117 | #647 | 0.10 |
| 1928 | 143 | #590 | 0.12 |
| 1927 | 158 | #567 | 0.13 |
| 1926 | 147 | #585 | 0.12 |
| 1925 | 151 | #587 | 0.12 |
| 1924 | 174 | #556 | 0.14 |
| 1923 | 173 | #548 | 0.14 |
| 1922 | 187 | #512 | 0.16 |
| 1921 | 208 | #479 | 0.17 |
| 1920 | 216 | #459 | 0.18 |
| 1919 | 189 | #488 | 0.17 |
| 1918 | 186 | #498 | 0.16 |
| 1917 | 206 | #449 | 0.19 |
| 1916 | 204 | #442 | 0.20 |
| 1915 | 207 | #421 | 0.21 |
| 1914 | 161 | #423 | 0.21 |
| 1913 | 133 | #429 | 0.21 |
| 1912 | 110 | #453 | 0.20 |
| 1911 | 82 | #453 | 0.20 |
| 1910 | 55 | #556 | 0.14 |
| 1909 | 53 | #518 | 0.15 |
| 1908 | 32 | #692 | 0.10 |
| 1907 | 18 | #918 | 0.06 |
| 1906 | 16 | #951 | 0.05 |
| 1905 | 19 | #864 | 0.07 |
| 1904 | 14 | #991 | 0.05 |
| 1903 | 12 | #1,064 | 0.05 |
| 1902 | 9 | #1,298 | 0.03 |
| 1901 | 13 | #954 | 0.05 |
| 1900 | 12 | #1,153 | 0.04 |
| 1897 | 6 | #1,508 | 0.03 |
| 1896 | 10 | #1,102 | 0.04 |
| 1892 | 7 | #1,242 | 0.03 |
| 1888 | 5 | #1,425 | 0.03 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Oleta a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Oleta has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 91 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Oleta: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Oleta, and how old are they?
An estimated 961 Americans named Oleta and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (18% of everyone recorded); the median is 78 years old and half are between 67 and 86. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 1,263 people named Oleta (1,260 women and girls, 3 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,390 born in the U.S. The Census count is 9% below that prediction.
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).
Where are babies named Oleta born?
The states with the most babies named Oleta are Texas, Oklahoma and Arkansas, with 84% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Oklahoma and Arkansas are not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 1,532 | not ranked | 5.4× |
| Oklahoma | 1,119 | not ranked | 10.1× |
| Arkansas | 322 | not ranked | 3.3× |
| Missouri | 140 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| West Virginia | 139 | not ranked | 1.5× |
| Kentucky | 95 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| North Carolina | 39 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Kansas | 27 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Tennessee | 27 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Alabama | 25 | not ranked | 0.2× |
Where Oleta is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Oleta is most over-represented in Oklahoma: since 1910 it was given 10.1 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Oleta with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 4 names spelled alike, given to 6,014 babies since 1880, Oleta is the most given (91% of them).
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 Oleta
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 Oleta and names like it
- Compare Oleta and OlettaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1920sOleta peaked in 1920.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Oleta since 1910.
- The top names of 1920The year the most babies were named Oleta.
- The names of the Silent GenerationMost people named Oleta alive today were born 1928-1945.
- Names starting with OMost given first.