Omelia — girls' name
232 babies named Omelia in U.S. Social Security records since 1912, with the highest year being 1923. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
25% of everyone ever named Omelia was born in this single decade.
12 babies were named Omelia in 1923 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Omelia
The Social Security Administration has registered 232 babies named Omelia between 1912 and 2022, spanning 111 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Omelia currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2022. The name reached its historical peak in 1923, when 12 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Omelia performed strongest in the 1920s, accumulating 58 births during that ten-year window. Across the 7 decades of recorded activity, Omelia shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 5 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Omelia in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Omelia 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 232 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.
Omelia at a glance
Last recorded 2022Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Omelia popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2022–1912
- Peak year (1923)
- 12
- Annual births at peak — across 111 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2022.
232 total births across 111 years of SSA records. Peaked in 1923 with 12 births in a single year.
Omelia by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 1920s
- 58 births that decade — 25% of Omelia's all-time total
Omelia decade highlights
- Peak decade 58 births
- Runner-up 48 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
1920s was Omelia's strongest decade
58 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 25% of all-time use.
Omelia by state
Where Omelia concentrates geographically — total births since 1912
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | Texas | | 5 | 2.2% |
5 of 232 births nationwide.
Top 5 states
- Texas 2.2% of nationwide
Recorded in 1 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
Texas accounts for 2.2% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1912–2022 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.