Oneta
Oneta was last recorded in 1972, when 6 babies were given it; 1,465 Americans have been recorded with it between 1893 and 1972 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Oneta by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Oneta?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #7,941, in 1972; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
68 babies in 1922, the peak
Oneta peaked in 1922, when 68 girls were given it, #890 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1972 | 6 | #7,941 | 3.9 |
| 1963 | 6 | #6,394 | 3.1 |
| 1962 | 7 | #5,698 | 3.6 |
| 1961 | 5 | #7,263 | 2.5 |
| 1960 | 8 | #5,062 | 4.0 |
| 1959 | 7 | #5,410 | 3.5 |
| 1958 | 7 | #5,259 | 3.5 |
| 1957 | 7 | #5,243 | 3.4 |
| 1956 | 6 | #5,774 | 3.0 |
| 1955 | 8 | #4,639 | 4.1 |
Every recorded year (67)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1954 | 7 | #5,018 | 3.6 |
| 1953 | 10 | #3,892 | 5.3 |
| 1952 | 10 | #3,725 | 5.4 |
| 1951 | 11 | #3,433 | 6.1 |
| 1950 | 10 | #3,604 | 5.8 |
| 1949 | 5 | #5,824 | 2.9 |
| 1948 | 13 | #2,932 | 7.7 |
| 1947 | 9 | #3,933 | 5.1 |
| 1946 | 14 | #2,706 | 8.9 |
| 1945 | 13 | #2,565 | 9.9 |
| 1944 | 10 | #3,096 | 7.5 |
| 1943 | 17 | #2,218 | 12.2 |
| 1942 | 10 | #3,146 | 7.4 |
| 1941 | 21 | #1,789 | 17.4 |
| 1940 | 25 | #1,580 | 21.9 |
| 1939 | 20 | #1,776 | 18.2 |
| 1938 | 22 | #1,690 | 19.9 |
| 1937 | 19 | #1,830 | 17.9 |
| 1936 | 29 | #1,370 | 27.9 |
| 1935 | 27 | #1,437 | 25.7 |
| 1934 | 26 | #1,472 | 24.9 |
| 1933 | 45 | #1,044 | 44.6 |
| 1932 | 25 | #1,558 | 23.4 |
| 1931 | 22 | #1,668 | 20.7 |
| 1930 | 38 | #1,229 | 33.7 |
| 1929 | 24 | #1,629 | 21.5 |
| 1928 | 54 | #1,026 | 46.8 |
| 1927 | 40 | #1,254 | 33.5 |
| 1926 | 48 | #1,092 | 40.5 |
| 1925 | 59 | #974 | 48.5 |
| 1924 | 58 | #1,013 | 46.4 |
| 1923 | 43 | #1,190 | 35.6 |
| 1922 | 68 | #890 | 56.6 |
| 1921 | 48 | #1,112 | 38.9 |
| 1920 | 60 | #947 | 50.1 |
| 1919 | 60 | #914 | 53.1 |
| 1918 | 43 | #1,148 | 37.1 |
| 1917 | 59 | #901 | 54.6 |
| 1916 | 45 | #1,038 | 43.1 |
| 1915 | 56 | #883 | 56.9 |
| 1914 | 28 | #1,170 | 36.8 |
| 1913 | 22 | #1,216 | 35.2 |
| 1912 | 11 | #1,805 | 19.7 |
| 1911 | 6 | #2,398 | 14.3 |
| 1910 | 14 | #1,258 | 35.3 |
| 1909 | 13 | #1,196 | 37.4 |
| 1908 | 5 | #2,354 | 15.0 |
| 1907 | 8 | #1,608 | 25.1 |
| 1906 | 10 | #1,295 | 33.9 |
| 1905 | 12 | #1,149 | 41.1 |
| 1903 | 7 | #1,542 | 26.7 |
| 1901 | 12 | #996 | 50.1 |
| 1900 | 5 | #2,147 | 16.7 |
| 1899 | 6 | #1,538 | 25.7 |
| 1898 | 5 | #1,892 | 19.3 |
| 1896 | 6 | #1,537 | 25.2 |
| 1893 | 5 | #1,597 | 23.5 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Oneta a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Oneta has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 67 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Oneta: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Oneta, and how old are they?
An estimated 230 Americans named Oneta and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (16% of everyone recorded); the median is 80 years old and half are between 72 and 88. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 350 people named Oneta (343 women and girls, 7 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 353 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1% below that prediction.
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 Oneta born?
The states with the most babies named Oneta are Texas, Oklahoma and Missouri, with 93% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Oklahoma and Missouri are not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 312 | not ranked | 4.2× |
| Oklahoma | 181 | not ranked | 6.2× |
| Missouri | 72 | not ranked | 1.9× |
| Arkansas | 24 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Indiana | 10 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Mississippi | 5 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Tennessee | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
Where Oneta is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Oneta is most over-represented in Oklahoma: since 1910 it was given 6.2 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 Oneta 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 4 names spelled alike, given to 3,677 babies since 1880, Oneta is the most given (40% 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 Oneta
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 Oneta and names like it
- Compare Oneta and OnitaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1920sOneta peaked in 1922.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Oneta since 1910.
- The top names of 1922The year the most babies were named Oneta.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Oneta alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with OMost given first.