Oni
Oni was last recorded in 2023, when 13 babies were given it; 287 Americans have been recorded with it between 1973 and 2023 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Oni by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Oni mean?
Wiktionary, Yoruba section
Oni is “a unisex given name, an orúkọ àmútọ̀runwá (“predestined name”), given to a child who cries incessantly” Its etymology gives the sense “today” (òní).
From òní (“today”)
/ò.nĩ́/
Meaning: Wiktionary, Yoruba section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Oni?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #14,724, in 2023; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
22 babies in 2020, the peak
Oni peaked in 2020, when 22 babies were given it (17 girls, #6,851 among girls’ names). It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 6 | #14,724 | 3.7 |
| 2022 | 8 | #11,956 | 4.9 |
| 2021 | 14 | #7,924 | 8.5 |
| 2020 | 17 | #6,851 | 10.5 |
| 2019 | 12 | #8,978 | 7.1 |
| 2018 | 11 | #9,653 | 6.5 |
| 2017 | 16 | #7,346 | 9.3 |
| 2016 | 9 | #11,555 | 5.1 |
| 2015 | 9 | #11,609 | 5.0 |
| 2013 | 5 | #18,590 | 2.8 |
Every recorded year (31)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 8 | #13,156 | 4.5 |
| 2009 | 8 | #13,371 | 4.4 |
| 2008 | 11 | #10,614 | 5.8 |
| 2007 | 5 | #19,769 | 2.6 |
| 2006 | 9 | #12,169 | 4.7 |
| 2005 | 6 | #15,931 | 3.2 |
| 2004 | 11 | #9,740 | 6.0 |
| 2003 | 7 | #13,457 | 3.8 |
| 2002 | 8 | #11,908 | 4.5 |
| 2000 | 10 | #9,689 | 5.5 |
| 1998 | 10 | #9,091 | 5.7 |
| 1995 | 6 | #12,910 | 3.4 |
| 1988 | 6 | #11,332 | 3.4 |
| 1983 | 7 | #8,704 | 4.2 |
| 1982 | 7 | #8,913 | 4.1 |
| 1980 | 12 | #5,803 | 7.2 |
| 1979 | 8 | #7,817 | 5.0 |
| 1977 | 6 | #9,283 | 3.9 |
| 1976 | 8 | #7,075 | 5.5 |
| 1975 | 9 | #6,299 | 6.2 |
| 1973 | 6 | #8,113 | 4.1 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Oni a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 287 Americans recorded as Oni, 96% are girls and 4% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Oni: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Oni, and how old are they?
An estimated 282 Americans named Oni and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 18 years old and half are between 8 and 31. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 422 people named Oni (325 women and girls, 97 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 232 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.8 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census records the name people give, which for many is the short form Oni rather than the name on their birth record, and it counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out.
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 14,825 babies since 1880, Oni is the sixth most given (1.9% of them). In 2025 none of their 95 babies recorded by SSA was a Oni (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Oni
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 Oni and names like it
- Compare Oni and OnaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sOni peaked in 2020.
- The top names of 2020The year the most babies were named Oni.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Oni alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with OMost given first.