Oleta — girls' name

What the Data Says About Oleta

The Social Security Administration has registered 5,472 babies named Oleta between 1888 and 2021, spanning 134 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Oleta currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2021. The name reached its historical peak in 1920, when 216 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Oleta performed strongest in the 1920s, accumulating 1,674 births during that ten-year window. Across the 14 decades of recorded activity, Oleta shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 1,532 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Oklahoma and Arkansas. In total, SSA state-level files list Oleta in 19 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Oleta 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 5,472 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.