Oumou
Oumou was given to 35 girls in 2025, #4,145 among girls’ names; 759 Americans have been recorded with it since 1996 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Oumou by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Oumou?
#4,145 among girls’ names, 2025
Oumou rose from #4,473 in 2015 to #4,145 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 17.9 to 21.8 per million.
43 babies in 2013, the peak
Oumou peaked in 2013, when 43 girls were given it, #3,621 among girls’ names. The 35 births of 2025 are 81% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 35 | #4,145 | 21.8 |
| 2024 | 33 | #4,356 | 20.4 |
| 2023 | 20 | #6,104 | 12.5 |
| 2022 | 31 | #4,553 | 18.9 |
| 2021 | 31 | #4,480 | 18.9 |
| 2020 | 30 | #4,518 | 18.6 |
| 2019 | 28 | #4,871 | 16.7 |
| 2018 | 30 | #4,639 | 17.6 |
| 2017 | 39 | #3,900 | 22.6 |
| 2016 | 31 | #4,605 | 17.5 |
Every recorded year (30)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 32 | #4,473 | 17.9 |
| 2014 | 26 | #5,273 | 14.6 |
| 2013 | 43 | #3,621 | 24.5 |
| 2012 | 23 | #5,847 | 13.1 |
| 2011 | 33 | #4,444 | 18.8 |
| 2010 | 24 | #5,744 | 13.5 |
| 2009 | 27 | #5,339 | 14.7 |
| 2008 | 28 | #5,241 | 14.8 |
| 2007 | 29 | #5,062 | 15.1 |
| 2006 | 23 | #5,860 | 12.1 |
| 2005 | 23 | #5,556 | 12.4 |
| 2004 | 18 | #6,688 | 9.8 |
| 2003 | 20 | #5,981 | 10.9 |
| 2002 | 23 | #5,223 | 12.8 |
| 2001 | 23 | #5,129 | 12.8 |
| 2000 | 21 | #5,444 | 11.6 |
| 1999 | 14 | #7,130 | 7.9 |
| 1998 | 9 | #9,884 | 5.1 |
| 1997 | 6 | #13,284 | 3.4 |
| 1996 | 6 | #13,012 | 3.4 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Oumou a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Oumou has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 30 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Oumou: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Oumou, and how old are they?
An estimated 753 Americans named Oumou and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 13 years old and half are between 7 and 19. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 976 people named Oumou (972 women and girls, 4 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 582 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.7 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).
Where are babies named Oumou born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 19 | #850 | 7.7× |
Where Oumou is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Oumou is most over-represented in New York: since 1996 it was given 7.7 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 Oumou with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Oumou
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 Oumou and names like it
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- The top names of 2013The year the most babies were named Oumou.
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