Onie
Onie was last recorded in 1997, when 6 babies were given it; 2,063 Americans have been recorded with it between 1880 and 1997 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Onie by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Onie?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #13,280, in 1997; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
70 babies in 1918, the peak
Onie peaked in 1918, when 70 babies were given it (64 girls, #899 among girls’ names). It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1997 | 6 | #13,280 | under 5 | |
| 1980 | 6 | #9,979 | under 5 | |
| 1970 | 5 | #8,919 | under 5 | |
| 1963 | 5 | #7,337 | under 5 | |
| 1962 | 5 | #7,280 | under 5 | |
| 1958 | 5 | #6,752 | under 5 | |
| 1956 | 9 | #4,382 | under 5 | |
| 1955 | 7 | #5,071 | 6 | #3,778 |
| 1954 | 11 | #3,650 | under 5 | |
| 1952 | 6 | #5,386 | 6 | #3,629 |
Every recorded year (81)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1951 | under 5 | 5 | #4,102 | |
| 1949 | 14 | #2,814 | under 5 | |
| 1948 | 14 | #2,799 | under 5 | |
| 1947 | 10 | #3,638 | 6 | #3,642 |
| 1946 | 11 | #3,167 | under 5 | |
| 1945 | 6 | #4,409 | under 5 | |
| 1944 | 15 | #2,367 | 5 | #3,778 |
| 1943 | 16 | #2,326 | under 5 | |
| 1942 | 14 | #2,512 | 6 | #3,461 |
| 1941 | 12 | #2,632 | 8 | #2,820 |
| 1940 | 10 | #2,906 | under 5 | |
| 1939 | 15 | #2,189 | under 5 | |
| 1938 | 15 | #2,199 | 6 | #3,426 |
| 1937 | 19 | #1,831 | 6 | #3,420 |
| 1936 | 16 | #2,003 | 5 | #3,928 |
| 1935 | 22 | #1,647 | 6 | #3,547 |
| 1934 | 17 | #1,977 | 5 | #4,064 |
| 1933 | 16 | #2,029 | 5 | #4,017 |
| 1932 | 20 | #1,799 | under 5 | |
| 1931 | 20 | #1,787 | 8 | #3,027 |
| 1930 | 23 | #1,693 | 8 | #3,212 |
| 1929 | 24 | #1,630 | under 5 | |
| 1928 | 23 | #1,764 | 6 | #4,017 |
| 1927 | 32 | #1,443 | 7 | #3,693 |
| 1926 | 28 | #1,580 | 7 | #3,617 |
| 1925 | 38 | #1,288 | under 5 | |
| 1924 | 32 | #1,496 | 6 | #4,215 |
| 1923 | 32 | #1,452 | 10 | #2,888 |
| 1922 | 41 | #1,224 | 10 | #2,942 |
| 1921 | 47 | #1,122 | 12 | #2,592 |
| 1920 | 39 | #1,241 | 20 | #1,802 |
| 1919 | 47 | #1,074 | 9 | #3,056 |
| 1918 | 64 | #899 | 6 | #4,044 |
| 1917 | 41 | #1,122 | 13 | #2,249 |
| 1916 | 46 | #1,019 | 6 | #3,777 |
| 1915 | 49 | #953 | 13 | #2,144 |
| 1914 | 32 | #1,075 | 10 | #2,225 |
| 1913 | 35 | #911 | 12 | #1,648 |
| 1912 | 24 | #1,073 | 5 | #2,802 |
| 1911 | 29 | #808 | 5 | #1,931 |
| 1910 | 35 | #718 | 7 | #1,388 |
| 1909 | 29 | #756 | under 5 | |
| 1908 | 38 | #626 | under 5 | |
| 1907 | 27 | #733 | under 5 | |
| 1906 | 21 | #814 | under 5 | |
| 1905 | 30 | #653 | 5 | #1,374 |
| 1904 | 38 | #543 | under 5 | |
| 1903 | 16 | #890 | under 5 | |
| 1902 | 17 | #864 | under 5 | |
| 1901 | 27 | #612 | under 5 | |
| 1900 | 29 | #672 | 6 | #1,272 |
| 1899 | 31 | #546 | under 5 | |
| 1898 | 20 | #767 | 6 | #1,089 |
| 1897 | 31 | #536 | 5 | #1,184 |
| 1896 | 23 | #668 | under 5 | |
| 1895 | 29 | #560 | under 5 | |
| 1894 | 23 | #621 | under 5 | |
| 1893 | 27 | #544 | under 5 | |
| 1892 | 28 | #524 | under 5 | |
| 1891 | 20 | #605 | under 5 | |
| 1890 | 23 | #556 | under 5 | |
| 1889 | 22 | #551 | under 5 | |
| 1888 | 24 | #521 | under 5 | |
| 1887 | 13 | #654 | under 5 | |
| 1886 | 16 | #567 | under 5 | |
| 1885 | 16 | #553 | under 5 | |
| 1884 | 17 | #517 | under 5 | |
| 1883 | 16 | #494 | under 5 | |
| 1882 | 12 | #556 | under 5 | |
| 1881 | 8 | #664 | under 5 | |
| 1880 | 7 | #722 | under 5 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Onie a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 2,063 Americans recorded as Onie, 87% are girls and 13% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Onie: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Onie, and how old are they?
An estimated 194 Americans named Onie and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (9% of everyone recorded); the median is 80 years old and half are between 72 and 87. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 379 people named Onie (272 women and girls, 107 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 293 born in the U.S. The Census count is 29% 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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 13,118 babies since 1880, Onie is the second most given (16% of them). In 2025 none of their 33 babies recorded by SSA was a Onie (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 Onie
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 Onie and names like it
- Compare Onie and OnaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1910sOnie peaked in 1918.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Onie since 1910.
- The top names of 1918The year the most babies were named Onie.
- The names of the Silent GenerationMost people named Onie alive today were born 1928-1945.
- Names starting with OMost given first.