Oralia
Oralia was given to 12 girls in 2025, #8,735 among girls’ names; 5,763 Americans have been recorded with it since 1912 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 3,860 Americans named Oralia and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (67% of everyone recorded); the median is 65 years old and half are between 45 and 76.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Oralia by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Oralia?
#8,735 among girls’ names, 2025
Oralia rose from #14,127 in 2015 to #8,735 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 3.9 to 7.5 per million.
166 babies in 1952, the peak
Oralia peaked in 1952, when 166 girls were given it, #693 among girls’ names. The 12 births of 2025 are 7% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 12 | #8,735 | 7.5 |
| 2024 | 6 | #14,843 | 3.7 |
| 2023 | 9 | #10,953 | 5.6 |
| 2022 | 5 | #17,144 | 3.0 |
| 2021 | 15 | #7,546 | 9.1 |
| 2020 | 10 | #10,084 | 6.2 |
| 2019 | 13 | #8,488 | 7.7 |
| 2018 | 13 | #8,485 | 7.6 |
| 2017 | 10 | #10,516 | 5.8 |
| 2016 | 11 | #9,926 | 6.2 |
Every recorded year (113)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 7 | #14,127 | 3.9 |
| 2014 | 10 | #10,747 | 5.6 |
| 2013 | 16 | #7,661 | 9.1 |
| 2012 | 17 | #7,377 | 9.7 |
| 2011 | 9 | #11,920 | 5.1 |
| 2010 | 17 | #7,427 | 9.6 |
| 2009 | 11 | #10,480 | 6.0 |
| 2008 | 11 | #10,616 | 5.8 |
| 2007 | 15 | #8,421 | 7.8 |
| 2006 | 24 | #5,664 | 12.6 |
| 2005 | 21 | #5,946 | 11.4 |
| 2004 | 20 | #6,146 | 10.9 |
| 2003 | 17 | #6,812 | 9.3 |
| 2002 | 21 | #5,618 | 11.7 |
| 2001 | 27 | #4,531 | 15.0 |
| 2000 | 32 | #3,955 | 17.6 |
| 1999 | 27 | #4,272 | 15.2 |
| 1998 | 33 | #3,620 | 18.7 |
| 1997 | 33 | #3,516 | 19.0 |
| 1996 | 28 | #3,907 | 16.0 |
| 1995 | 23 | #4,458 | 13.1 |
| 1994 | 32 | #3,509 | 17.9 |
| 1993 | 38 | #3,084 | 21.0 |
| 1992 | 28 | #3,836 | 15.2 |
| 1991 | 32 | #3,416 | 17.1 |
| 1990 | 33 | #3,334 | 17.4 |
| 1989 | 31 | #3,366 | 16.8 |
| 1988 | 27 | #3,547 | 15.2 |
| 1987 | 33 | #2,953 | 19.0 |
| 1986 | 26 | #3,430 | 15.2 |
| 1985 | 35 | #2,738 | 20.3 |
| 1984 | 26 | #3,299 | 15.4 |
| 1983 | 42 | #2,298 | 25.1 |
| 1982 | 49 | #2,103 | 28.9 |
| 1981 | 35 | #2,642 | 21.0 |
| 1980 | 24 | #3,471 | 14.5 |
| 1979 | 40 | #2,375 | 24.9 |
| 1978 | 43 | #2,180 | 28.1 |
| 1977 | 35 | #2,500 | 22.8 |
| 1976 | 51 | #1,832 | 34.8 |
| 1975 | 58 | #1,667 | 39.8 |
| 1974 | 48 | #1,842 | 32.7 |
| 1973 | 42 | #1,968 | 28.8 |
| 1972 | 37 | #2,121 | 24.3 |
| 1971 | 38 | #2,158 | 22.8 |
| 1970 | 52 | #1,749 | 29.7 |
| 1969 | 57 | #1,586 | 33.8 |
| 1968 | 49 | #1,669 | 29.9 |
| 1967 | 57 | #1,489 | 34.5 |
| 1966 | 73 | #1,269 | 43.1 |
| 1965 | 61 | #1,419 | 34.6 |
| 1964 | 65 | #1,401 | 34.3 |
| 1963 | 74 | #1,287 | 38.4 |
| 1962 | 77 | #1,264 | 39.2 |
| 1961 | 81 | #1,228 | 40.1 |
| 1960 | 95 | #1,112 | 47.0 |
| 1959 | 94 | #1,108 | 46.5 |
| 1958 | 105 | #1,014 | 52.2 |
| 1957 | 126 | #907 | 61.6 |
| 1956 | 123 | #906 | 61.3 |
| 1955 | 107 | #959 | 54.7 |
| 1954 | 113 | #907 | 58.2 |
| 1953 | 133 | #799 | 70.7 |
| 1952 | 166 | #693 | 89.5 |
| 1951 | 131 | #774 | 72.7 |
| 1950 | 146 | #707 | 85.2 |
| 1949 | 138 | #723 | 80.7 |
| 1948 | 151 | #677 | 88.9 |
| 1947 | 139 | #723 | 78.4 |
| 1946 | 140 | #677 | 89.1 |
| 1945 | 125 | #661 | 95.6 |
| 1944 | 108 | #731 | 81.4 |
| 1943 | 121 | #695 | 86.7 |
| 1942 | 92 | #799 | 68.1 |
| 1941 | 95 | #727 | 78.6 |
| 1940 | 86 | #748 | 75.2 |
| 1939 | 87 | #734 | 79.3 |
| 1938 | 100 | #691 | 90.6 |
| 1937 | 98 | #693 | 92.1 |
| 1936 | 76 | #777 | 73.0 |
| 1935 | 73 | #795 | 69.6 |
| 1934 | 60 | #884 | 57.5 |
| 1933 | 62 | #856 | 61.5 |
| 1932 | 68 | #843 | 63.7 |
| 1931 | 62 | #873 | 58.2 |
| 1930 | 58 | #967 | 51.5 |
| 1929 | 54 | #989 | 48.4 |
| 1928 | 42 | #1,186 | 36.4 |
| 1927 | 53 | #1,064 | 44.4 |
| 1926 | 45 | #1,144 | 38.0 |
| 1925 | 54 | #1,030 | 44.4 |
| 1924 | 34 | #1,433 | 27.2 |
| 1923 | 23 | #1,820 | 19.1 |
| 1922 | 31 | #1,498 | 25.8 |
| 1921 | 10 | #3,343 | 8.1 |
| 1920 | 18 | #2,149 | 15.0 |
| 1919 | 15 | #2,354 | 13.3 |
| 1918 | 8 | #3,776 | 6.9 |
| 1917 | 11 | #2,827 | 10.2 |
| 1916 | 5 | #4,975 | 4.8 |
| 1915 | 9 | #3,071 | 9.1 |
| 1914 | 9 | #2,580 | 11.8 |
| 1912 | 7 | #2,569 | 12.5 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Oralia a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Oralia has been given almost only to girls: 5 boys in 113 years of records.
Girls and boys named Oralia: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Oralia, and how old are they?
3,860 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 67% of the 5,763 Americans ever recorded as Oralia. The median Oralia alive today is 65 years old; half are between 45 and 76.
The 2020 Census counted 8,931 people named Oralia (8,916 women and girls, 15 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 4,273 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.1 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.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 502 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 1,670 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 707 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 503 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 331 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 136 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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 Oralia born?
The states with the most babies named Oralia are Texas, California and New Mexico, with 99% of its births recorded by state since 1910; New Mexico is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 4,182 | not ranked | 11.2× |
| California | 425 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| New Mexico | 100 | not ranked | 2.8× |
| Illinois | 21 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Arizona | 16 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Michigan | 10 | not ranked | 0.0× |
Where Oralia is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Oralia is most over-represented in Texas: since 1912 it was given 11.2 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 Oralia 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 7 names spelled alike, given to 9,746 babies since 1880, Oralia is the most given (59% of them). In 2025 it was given to 12 of their 114 babies (11%), the third most given that year.
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 Oralia
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 Oralia and names like it
- Compare Oralia and OrlaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1950sOralia peaked in 1952.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Oralia since 1910.
- The top names of 1952The year the most babies were named Oralia.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Oralia alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with OMost given first.