Oletha
Oletha was last recorded in 1980, when 5 babies were given it; 1,214 Americans have been recorded with it between 1897 and 1980 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Oletha by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Oletha?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #11,619, in 1980; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
41 babies in 1923, the peak
Oletha peaked in 1923, when 41 girls were given it, #1,223 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1980 | 5 | #11,619 | 3.0 |
| 1978 | 9 | #6,762 | 5.9 |
| 1977 | 6 | #9,276 | 3.9 |
| 1975 | 7 | #7,718 | 4.8 |
| 1974 | 10 | #5,643 | 6.8 |
| 1973 | 10 | #5,461 | 6.9 |
| 1972 | 13 | #4,464 | 8.5 |
| 1971 | 13 | #4,469 | 7.8 |
| 1970 | 10 | #5,305 | 5.7 |
| 1969 | 13 | #4,108 | 7.7 |
Every recorded year (75)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1968 | 6 | #6,782 | 3.7 |
| 1967 | 14 | #3,603 | 8.5 |
| 1966 | 11 | #4,137 | 6.5 |
| 1965 | 7 | #5,653 | 4.0 |
| 1964 | 9 | #4,888 | 4.7 |
| 1963 | 14 | #3,582 | 7.3 |
| 1962 | 5 | #7,277 | 2.5 |
| 1961 | 18 | #3,032 | 8.9 |
| 1960 | 6 | #6,189 | 3.0 |
| 1959 | 14 | #3,380 | 6.9 |
| 1958 | 8 | #4,790 | 4.0 |
| 1957 | 13 | #3,441 | 6.4 |
| 1956 | 6 | #5,771 | 3.0 |
| 1955 | 8 | #4,636 | 4.1 |
| 1954 | 9 | #4,193 | 4.6 |
| 1953 | 12 | #3,415 | 6.4 |
| 1952 | 14 | #3,011 | 7.5 |
| 1951 | 10 | #3,650 | 5.6 |
| 1950 | 5 | #5,891 | 2.9 |
| 1949 | 14 | #2,813 | 8.2 |
| 1948 | 9 | #3,798 | 5.3 |
| 1947 | 5 | #5,896 | 2.8 |
| 1946 | 8 | #3,896 | 5.1 |
| 1945 | 12 | #2,702 | 9.2 |
| 1944 | 15 | #2,366 | 11.3 |
| 1943 | 15 | #2,417 | 10.8 |
| 1942 | 11 | #2,944 | 8.1 |
| 1941 | 14 | #2,356 | 11.6 |
| 1940 | 10 | #2,905 | 8.7 |
| 1939 | 12 | #2,542 | 10.9 |
| 1938 | 21 | #1,741 | 19.0 |
| 1937 | 14 | #2,283 | 13.2 |
| 1936 | 11 | #2,652 | 10.6 |
| 1935 | 21 | #1,707 | 20.0 |
| 1934 | 23 | #1,595 | 22.0 |
| 1933 | 22 | #1,644 | 21.8 |
| 1932 | 25 | #1,555 | 23.4 |
| 1931 | 29 | #1,389 | 27.2 |
| 1930 | 27 | #1,521 | 24.0 |
| 1929 | 22 | #1,745 | 19.7 |
| 1928 | 33 | #1,362 | 28.6 |
| 1927 | 25 | #1,712 | 21.0 |
| 1926 | 38 | #1,273 | 32.1 |
| 1925 | 39 | #1,268 | 32.0 |
| 1924 | 30 | #1,556 | 24.0 |
| 1923 | 41 | #1,223 | 34.0 |
| 1922 | 33 | #1,423 | 27.5 |
| 1921 | 36 | #1,329 | 29.2 |
| 1920 | 32 | #1,433 | 26.7 |
| 1919 | 37 | #1,265 | 32.7 |
| 1918 | 34 | #1,323 | 29.4 |
| 1917 | 33 | #1,277 | 30.5 |
| 1916 | 25 | #1,518 | 23.9 |
| 1915 | 31 | #1,281 | 31.5 |
| 1914 | 20 | #1,474 | 26.3 |
| 1913 | 22 | #1,214 | 35.2 |
| 1912 | 12 | #1,699 | 21.5 |
| 1911 | 10 | #1,623 | 23.9 |
| 1910 | 14 | #1,257 | 35.3 |
| 1909 | 8 | #1,708 | 23.0 |
| 1907 | 10 | #1,355 | 31.4 |
| 1906 | 8 | #1,520 | 27.1 |
| 1904 | 8 | #1,448 | 29.1 |
| 1903 | 5 | #2,000 | 19.1 |
| 1897 | 5 | #1,726 | 21.3 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Oletha a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Oletha has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 75 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Oletha: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Oletha, and how old are they?
An estimated 355 Americans named Oletha and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (29% of everyone recorded); the median is 67 years old and half are between 57 and 80. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 413 people named Oletha (408 women and girls, 5 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 452 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 Oletha born?
The states with the most babies named Oletha are Texas, Oklahoma and Kansas, with 96% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Oklahoma and Kansas are not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 128 | not ranked | 2.0× |
| Oklahoma | 104 | not ranked | 4.5× |
| Kansas | 13 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Arkansas | 6 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Missouri | 5 | not ranked | 0.2× |
Where Oletha is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Oletha is most over-represented in Oklahoma: since 1910 it was given 4.5 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 Oletha 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 2 names spelled alike, given to 1,269 babies since 1880, Oletha is the most given (96% 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 Oletha
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 Oletha and names like it
- Compare Oletha and OleathaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1920sOletha peaked in 1923.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Oletha since 1910.
- The top names of 1923The year the most babies were named Oletha.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Oletha alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with OMost given first.