Oletta
Oletta was given to 6 girls in 2025, #14,476 among girls’ names; 343 Americans have been recorded with it since 1912 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Oletta by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Oletta?
#14,476 among girls’ names, 2025
Oletta entered the girls’ rankings after 2015 and stood at #14,476 in 2025.
19 babies in 1923, the peak
Oletta peaked in 1923, when 19 girls were given it, #2,073 among girls’ names. The 6 births of 2025 are 32% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6 | #14,476 | 3.7 |
| 1959 | 5 | #6,948 | 2.5 |
| 1953 | 5 | #6,299 | 2.7 |
| 1952 | 6 | #5,382 | 3.2 |
| 1950 | 9 | #3,871 | 5.3 |
| 1946 | 5 | #5,498 | 3.2 |
| 1944 | 8 | #3,603 | 6.0 |
| 1942 | 6 | #4,494 | 4.4 |
| 1941 | 6 | #4,304 | 5.0 |
| 1939 | 6 | #4,130 | 5.5 |
Every recorded year (35)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1938 | 12 | #2,537 | 10.9 |
| 1936 | 7 | #3,624 | 6.7 |
| 1935 | 10 | #2,882 | 9.5 |
| 1934 | 17 | #1,976 | 16.3 |
| 1933 | 9 | #3,056 | 8.9 |
| 1932 | 14 | #2,337 | 13.1 |
| 1931 | 11 | #2,710 | 10.3 |
| 1930 | 13 | #2,527 | 11.5 |
| 1929 | 11 | #2,873 | 9.9 |
| 1928 | 12 | #2,730 | 10.4 |
| 1927 | 12 | #2,815 | 10.1 |
| 1926 | 11 | #3,002 | 9.3 |
| 1925 | 13 | #2,735 | 10.7 |
| 1924 | 14 | #2,634 | 11.2 |
| 1923 | 19 | #2,073 | 15.7 |
| 1922 | 16 | #2,362 | 13.3 |
| 1921 | 14 | #2,602 | 11.4 |
| 1920 | 7 | #4,295 | 5.8 |
| 1919 | 6 | #4,663 | 5.3 |
| 1918 | 11 | #2,972 | 9.5 |
| 1917 | 13 | #2,515 | 12.0 |
| 1916 | 6 | #4,279 | 5.7 |
| 1915 | 5 | #4,785 | 5.1 |
| 1914 | 13 | #1,987 | 17.1 |
| 1912 | 5 | #3,316 | 9.0 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Oletta a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Oletta has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 35 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Oletta: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Oletta, and how old are they?
An estimated 60 Americans named Oletta 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 153 people named Oletta (153 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 91 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.7 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).
How common is the spelling Oletta?
Oletta is a less common spelling of Oleta: SSA has recorded 343 Oletta and 5,472 Oleta since 1880.
Of these 4 names spelled alike, given to 6,014 babies since 1880, Oletta is the second most given (5.7% 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 Oletta
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 Oletta and names like it
- Compare Oletta and OletaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1920sOletta peaked in 1923.
- Oklahoma’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Oletta since 1910.
- The top names of 1923The year the most babies were named Oletta.
- Names starting with OMost given first.