Onie — unisex name

What the Data Says About Onie

The Social Security Administration has registered 1,786 babies named Onie between 1880 and 1997, spanning 118 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Onie currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 1997. The name reached its historical peak in 1918, when 64 babies received it in a single year. Onie is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 277 additional births since 1897.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Onie performed strongest in the 1910s, accumulating 402 births during that ten-year window. Across the 12 decades of recorded activity, Onie shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 76 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Mississippi and Georgia. In total, SSA state-level files list Onie in 11 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Onie 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 1,786 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.