Oma — girls' name

What the Data Says About Oma

The Social Security Administration has registered 9,598 babies named Oma between 1880 and 2018, spanning 139 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Oma currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2018. The name reached its historical peak in 1916, when 284 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Oma performed strongest in the 1920s, accumulating 2,222 births during that ten-year window. Across the 14 decades of recorded activity, Oma shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Kentucky, which accounts for 1,001 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and Oklahoma. In total, SSA state-level files list Oma in 24 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Oma 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 9,598 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.