Oma
Oma was last recorded in 2018, when 5 babies were given it; 9,779 Americans have been recorded with it between 1880 and 2018 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,340 Americans named Oma and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (14% of everyone recorded); the median is 78 years old and half are between 67 and 86.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Oma by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Oma mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Oma is “a female given name”
Coined as a feminine equivalent of Omar.
/ˈoʊ.mə/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Oma?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #17,521, in 2018; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
294 babies in 1916, the peak
Oma peaked in 1916, when 294 babies were given it (284 girls, #366 among girls’ names). It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | 5 | #17,521 | under 0.01 |
| 2017 | 9 | #11,383 | 0.01 |
| 2016 | 5 | #18,171 | under 0.01 |
| 2008 | 5 | #19,715 | under 0.01 |
| 2003 | 6 | #15,268 | under 0.01 |
| 2002 | 5 | #17,416 | under 0.01 |
| 1996 | 7 | #11,452 | under 0.01 |
| 1995 | 5 | #15,099 | under 0.01 |
| 1993 | 9 | #9,301 | under 0.01 |
| 1990 | 5 | #14,552 | under 0.01 |
Every recorded year (115)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1989 | 6 | #11,890 | under 0.01 |
| 1985 | 10 | #6,801 | 0.01 |
| 1983 | 7 | #8,702 | under 0.01 |
| 1981 | 7 | #8,757 | under 0.01 |
| 1980 | 8 | #7,909 | under 0.01 |
| 1979 | 6 | #9,827 | under 0.01 |
| 1978 | 7 | #8,280 | under 0.01 |
| 1977 | 6 | #9,280 | under 0.01 |
| 1976 | 5 | #10,399 | under 0.01 |
| 1975 | 8 | #6,940 | 0.01 |
| 1974 | 12 | #4,934 | 0.01 |
| 1973 | 7 | #7,200 | under 0.01 |
| 1972 | 8 | #6,388 | 0.01 |
| 1971 | 11 | #5,024 | 0.01 |
| 1970 | 18 | #3,535 | 0.01 |
| 1969 | 13 | #4,109 | 0.01 |
| 1968 | 11 | #4,415 | 0.01 |
| 1967 | 8 | #5,312 | under 0.01 |
| 1966 | 11 | #4,138 | 0.01 |
| 1965 | 14 | #3,501 | 0.01 |
| 1964 | 18 | #3,068 | 0.01 |
| 1963 | 18 | #3,040 | 0.01 |
| 1962 | 21 | #2,718 | 0.01 |
| 1961 | 20 | #2,812 | 0.01 |
| 1960 | 25 | #2,415 | 0.01 |
| 1959 | 24 | #2,379 | 0.01 |
| 1958 | 31 | #2,011 | 0.02 |
| 1957 | 28 | #2,105 | 0.01 |
| 1956 | 36 | #1,786 | 0.02 |
| 1955 | 43 | #1,567 | 0.02 |
| 1954 | 40 | #1,615 | 0.02 |
| 1953 | 38 | #1,610 | 0.02 |
| 1952 | 52 | #1,345 | 0.03 |
| 1951 | 53 | #1,287 | 0.03 |
| 1950 | 41 | #1,446 | 0.02 |
| 1949 | 55 | #1,230 | 0.03 |
| 1948 | 68 | #1,080 | 0.04 |
| 1947 | 61 | #1,157 | 0.03 |
| 1946 | 46 | #1,284 | 0.03 |
| 1945 | 66 | #952 | 0.05 |
| 1944 | 72 | #906 | 0.05 |
| 1943 | 71 | #931 | 0.05 |
| 1942 | 92 | #798 | 0.07 |
| 1941 | 87 | #778 | 0.07 |
| 1940 | 99 | #701 | 0.09 |
| 1939 | 122 | #612 | 0.11 |
| 1938 | 119 | #631 | 0.11 |
| 1937 | 120 | #619 | 0.11 |
| 1936 | 105 | #647 | 0.10 |
| 1935 | 109 | #627 | 0.10 |
| 1934 | 120 | #602 | 0.11 |
| 1933 | 147 | #525 | 0.15 |
| 1932 | 164 | #512 | 0.15 |
| 1931 | 152 | #537 | 0.14 |
| 1930 | 168 | #523 | 0.15 |
| 1929 | 180 | #503 | 0.16 |
| 1928 | 176 | #524 | 0.15 |
| 1927 | 180 | #526 | 0.15 |
| 1926 | 197 | #496 | 0.17 |
| 1925 | 243 | #442 | 0.20 |
| 1924 | 251 | #441 | 0.20 |
| 1923 | 236 | #443 | 0.20 |
| 1922 | 224 | #458 | 0.19 |
| 1921 | 262 | #416 | 0.21 |
| 1920 | 273 | #401 | 0.23 |
| 1919 | 245 | #414 | 0.22 |
| 1918 | 284 | #388 | 0.25 |
| 1917 | 223 | #430 | 0.21 |
| 1916 | 284 | #366 | 0.27 |
| 1915 | 279 | #361 | 0.28 |
| 1914 | 189 | #386 | 0.25 |
| 1913 | 171 | #370 | 0.27 |
| 1912 | 164 | #357 | 0.29 |
| 1911 | 125 | #358 | 0.30 |
| 1910 | 134 | #341 | 0.34 |
| 1909 | 139 | #310 | 0.40 |
| 1908 | 132 | #308 | 0.39 |
| 1907 | 129 | #306 | 0.40 |
| 1906 | 125 | #299 | 0.42 |
| 1905 | 133 | #288 | 0.46 |
| 1904 | 111 | #306 | 0.40 |
| 1903 | 126 | #279 | 0.48 |
| 1902 | 122 | #284 | 0.46 |
| 1901 | 117 | #276 | 0.49 |
| 1900 | 116 | #304 | 0.39 |
| 1899 | 101 | #297 | 0.43 |
| 1898 | 113 | #290 | 0.44 |
| 1897 | 90 | #307 | 0.38 |
| 1896 | 97 | #297 | 0.41 |
| 1895 | 85 | #315 | 0.36 |
| 1894 | 84 | #300 | 0.38 |
| 1893 | 83 | #299 | 0.39 |
| 1892 | 72 | #318 | 0.34 |
| 1891 | 66 | #312 | 0.36 |
| 1890 | 68 | #308 | 0.36 |
| 1889 | 71 | #282 | 0.40 |
| 1888 | 65 | #293 | 0.36 |
| 1887 | 46 | #316 | 0.32 |
| 1886 | 39 | #345 | 0.27 |
| 1885 | 27 | #400 | 0.20 |
| 1884 | 42 | #300 | 0.33 |
| 1883 | 34 | #305 | 0.30 |
| 1882 | 33 | #312 | 0.31 |
| 1881 | 19 | #389 | 0.21 |
| 1880 | 18 | #402 | 0.20 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Oma a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 9,779 Americans recorded as Oma, 98% are girls and 2% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Oma: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Oma, and how old are they?
1,340 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 14% of the 9,779 Americans ever recorded as Oma. The median Oma alive today is 78 years old; half are between 67 and 86.
The 2020 Census counted 1,968 people named Oma (1,812 women and girls, 156 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,938 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 539 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 543 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 150 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 54 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 16 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 19 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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 Oma born?
The states with the most babies named Oma are Kentucky, Texas and Oklahoma, with 47% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Kentucky and Oklahoma are not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kentucky | 1,001 | not ranked | 5.2× |
| Texas | 969 | not ranked | 2.5× |
| Oklahoma | 524 | not ranked | 3.4× |
| Tennessee | 503 | not ranked | 2.6× |
| Arkansas | 445 | not ranked | 3.3× |
| West Virginia | 317 | not ranked | 2.5× |
| Missouri | 313 | not ranked | 1.5× |
| Alabama | 219 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Virginia | 199 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| North Carolina | 167 | not ranked | 0.7× |
Where Oma is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Oma is most over-represented in Kentucky: since 1910 it was given 5.2 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 Oma 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 6 names spelled alike, given to 11,434 babies since 1880, Oma is the most given (86% 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 Oma
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 Oma and names like it
- Compare Oma and OmieBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1910sOma peaked in 1916.
- Kentucky’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Oma since 1910.
- The top names of 1916The year the most babies were named Oma.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Oma alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with OMost given first.