Onetta
Onetta was last recorded in 1967, when 5 babies were given it; 181 Americans have been recorded with it between 1915 and 1967 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Onetta by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Onetta?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #7,538, in 1967; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
11 babies in 1915, the peak
Onetta peaked in 1915, when 11 girls were given it, #2,655 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1967 | 5 | #7,538 | 3.0 |
| 1958 | 5 | #6,751 | 2.5 |
| 1955 | 7 | #5,070 | 3.6 |
| 1954 | 6 | #5,579 | 3.1 |
| 1952 | 9 | #4,034 | 4.9 |
| 1949 | 5 | #5,825 | 2.9 |
| 1947 | 5 | #5,900 | 2.8 |
| 1945 | 8 | #3,605 | 6.1 |
| 1942 | 6 | #4,498 | 4.4 |
| 1941 | 5 | #4,895 | 4.1 |
Every recorded year (27)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1939 | 5 | #4,769 | 4.6 |
| 1938 | 6 | #4,217 | 5.4 |
| 1936 | 5 | #4,701 | 4.8 |
| 1935 | 9 | #3,102 | 8.6 |
| 1934 | 5 | #4,803 | 4.8 |
| 1933 | 9 | #3,057 | 8.9 |
| 1931 | 7 | #3,763 | 6.6 |
| 1929 | 5 | #5,105 | 4.5 |
| 1928 | 8 | #3,673 | 6.9 |
| 1927 | 8 | #3,783 | 6.7 |
| 1926 | 7 | #4,205 | 5.9 |
| 1925 | 8 | #3,943 | 6.6 |
| 1923 | 7 | #4,270 | 5.8 |
| 1922 | 10 | #3,315 | 8.3 |
| 1920 | 5 | #5,576 | 4.2 |
| 1916 | 5 | #4,971 | 4.8 |
| 1915 | 11 | #2,655 | 11.2 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Onetta a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Onetta has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 27 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Onetta: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Onetta, and how old are they?
An estimated 54 Americans named Onetta and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026, too few to state an age range. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 118 people named Onetta (118 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 75 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.6 times 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).
How common is the spelling Onetta?
Onetta is a less common spelling of Oneta: SSA has recorded 181 Onetta and 1,465 Oneta since 1880.
Of these 4 names spelled alike, given to 3,677 babies since 1880, Onetta is the fourth most given (4.9% 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 Onetta
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 Onetta and names like it
- Compare Onetta and OnetaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1910sOnetta peaked in 1915.
- The top names of 1915The year the most babies were named Onetta.
- Names starting with OMost given first.