Onalee
Onalee was given to 8 girls in 2025, #11,660 among girls’ names; 1,007 Americans have been recorded with it since 1904 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Onalee by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Onalee?
#11,660 among girls’ names, 2025
Onalee fell from #7,518 in 2015 to #11,660 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 9.0 to 5.0 per million.
35 babies in 1928, the peak
Onalee peaked in 1928, when 35 girls were given it, #1,306 among girls’ names. The 8 births of 2025 are 23% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 8 | #11,660 | 5.0 |
| 2024 | 14 | #7,867 | 8.6 |
| 2023 | 12 | #8,844 | 7.5 |
| 2022 | 8 | #11,955 | 4.9 |
| 2021 | 18 | #6,609 | 11.0 |
| 2020 | 12 | #8,810 | 7.4 |
| 2019 | 15 | #7,624 | 8.9 |
| 2018 | 8 | #12,213 | 4.7 |
| 2017 | 9 | #11,385 | 5.2 |
| 2016 | 26 | #5,244 | 14.7 |
Every recorded year (78)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 16 | #7,518 | 9.0 |
| 2014 | 8 | #12,782 | 4.5 |
| 2013 | 14 | #8,457 | 8.0 |
| 2012 | 12 | #9,569 | 6.8 |
| 2011 | 10 | #10,982 | 5.7 |
| 2010 | 11 | #10,291 | 6.2 |
| 2009 | 6 | #16,746 | 3.3 |
| 2008 | 7 | #14,991 | 3.7 |
| 2007 | 8 | #13,601 | 4.2 |
| 2006 | 6 | #16,599 | 3.2 |
| 2005 | 9 | #11,578 | 4.9 |
| 2004 | 6 | #15,578 | 3.3 |
| 2001 | 8 | #11,782 | 4.4 |
| 1992 | 5 | #14,869 | 2.7 |
| 1991 | 6 | #12,630 | 3.2 |
| 1985 | 5 | #11,929 | 2.9 |
| 1981 | 6 | #9,997 | 3.6 |
| 1966 | 7 | #5,659 | 4.1 |
| 1965 | 5 | #7,234 | 2.8 |
| 1964 | 7 | #5,852 | 3.7 |
| 1963 | 9 | #4,798 | 4.7 |
| 1961 | 5 | #7,260 | 2.5 |
| 1958 | 6 | #5,918 | 3.0 |
| 1956 | 5 | #6,638 | 2.5 |
| 1953 | 6 | #5,486 | 3.2 |
| 1952 | 10 | #3,724 | 5.4 |
| 1951 | 8 | #4,279 | 4.4 |
| 1950 | 13 | #3,008 | 7.6 |
| 1949 | 10 | #3,557 | 5.8 |
| 1948 | 7 | #4,519 | 4.1 |
| 1947 | 5 | #5,899 | 2.8 |
| 1946 | 16 | #2,459 | 10.2 |
| 1945 | 13 | #2,564 | 9.9 |
| 1944 | 8 | #3,604 | 6.0 |
| 1943 | 12 | #2,811 | 8.6 |
| 1942 | 12 | #2,766 | 8.9 |
| 1941 | 16 | #2,164 | 13.2 |
| 1940 | 9 | #3,147 | 7.9 |
| 1939 | 11 | #2,704 | 10.0 |
| 1938 | 18 | #1,925 | 16.3 |
| 1937 | 21 | #1,720 | 19.7 |
| 1936 | 17 | #1,930 | 16.3 |
| 1935 | 22 | #1,646 | 21.0 |
| 1934 | 22 | #1,641 | 21.1 |
| 1933 | 7 | #3,661 | 6.9 |
| 1932 | 18 | #1,931 | 16.9 |
| 1931 | 23 | #1,625 | 21.6 |
| 1930 | 21 | #1,796 | 18.7 |
| 1929 | 23 | #1,695 | 20.6 |
| 1928 | 35 | #1,306 | 30.3 |
| 1927 | 22 | #1,869 | 18.4 |
| 1926 | 24 | #1,760 | 20.2 |
| 1925 | 31 | #1,494 | 25.5 |
| 1924 | 25 | #1,753 | 20.0 |
| 1923 | 22 | #1,882 | 18.2 |
| 1922 | 17 | #2,259 | 14.2 |
| 1921 | 22 | #1,907 | 17.8 |
| 1920 | 25 | #1,691 | 20.9 |
| 1919 | 19 | #1,972 | 16.8 |
| 1918 | 17 | #2,178 | 14.7 |
| 1917 | 16 | #2,177 | 14.8 |
| 1916 | 18 | #1,936 | 17.2 |
| 1915 | 15 | #2,115 | 15.2 |
| 1914 | 9 | #2,578 | 11.8 |
| 1912 | 7 | #2,566 | 12.5 |
| 1911 | 6 | #2,397 | 14.3 |
| 1910 | 7 | #2,083 | 17.7 |
| 1904 | 5 | #2,096 | 18.2 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Onalee a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Onalee has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 78 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Onalee: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Onalee, and how old are they?
An estimated 439 Americans named Onalee and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (44% of everyone recorded); the median is 19 years old and half are between 10 and 76. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 533 people named Onalee (532 women and girls, 1 man or boy). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 450 born in the U.S. The Census count is 18% above 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).
Where are babies named Onalee born?
The states with the most babies named Onalee are Michigan, New York and Pennsylvania, with 100% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Michigan | 249 | not ranked | 6.6× |
| New York | 37 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Pennsylvania | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
Where Onalee is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Onalee is most over-represented in Michigan: since 1910 it was given 6.6 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 Onalee 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 1,064 babies since 1880, Onalee is the most given (95% 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 Onalee
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 Onalee and names like it
- Compare Onalee and OnnoleeBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1920sOnalee peaked in 1928.
- Michigan’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Onalee since 1910.
- The top names of 1928The year the most babies were named Onalee.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Onalee alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with OMost given first.