Girls' name · since 2017
Oya
Since 2017, U.S. Social Security records show 44 babies named Oya, peaking in 2022. See the year-by-year trend, decade totals, and state rankings below, sourced from federal birth data.
- #36,514 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- #14,568 of 17,297
- 2025 SSA year
- 44
- born since 2017
- 2020s
- peak decade
44 babies have been named Oya since 2017, making it today's #14568 girls' name.
Oya has 44 recorded births among girls since 2017, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, ranked #14568 as of the latest data, more common than 16% of girls, busiest in the 2020s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 2017 to 2025.
- #36,514 of 72,339 all-time among girls
- #14,568 of 17,297 2025 SSA year
- 44 born since 2017
- 2020s peak decade
Data updated Aug 2026
The verdict
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Oya ranks #36,514 of 72,339 girls' names by all-time recorded births (highest first) and #14,568 of 17,297 among girls' names in 2025. 44 born since 2017, peaking in the 2020s.
- #36,514 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- #14,568 of 17,297
- 2025 SSA year
- 44
- born since 2017
- 2020s
- peak decade
Oya's 44 recorded births place it above 49.4% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
How Oya compares
44 14th percentile among 17,297 names currently given to girls
Based on all-time total births among currently-ranked girls names. Names with fewer occurrences are grouped into wider buckets on the right.
Source U.S. Social Security Administration, national baby name data
How the numbers stack up
Oya's all-time total is 88% below the median girls name, and Olivia still leads by a wide margin.
| Metric | Oya | Median girls name (Kyann) | #1 girls name (Olivia) |
|---|---|---|---|
| All-time total births | 44 | 376 | 567,345 |
| Peak-year births | 9 | 21 | 19,840 |
Oya's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Divide Oya's SSA record in two at 2020 and the more recent half accounts for 59% of all births, the earlier half the remaining 41%, a genuinely balanced usage pattern. Its calmest year was 2017, with only 5 births recorded -- set against the 2022 peak of 9, that's the full swing in one name's fortunes.
Oya popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2017–2025
- Peak year (2022)
- 9
- Annual births at peak, across 9 years of records
Oya by decade
2020s is the heaviest window (26 births, 59% of the file).
2020s was Oya's strongest decade.
26 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 59% of all-time use.
Oya births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 2010s
2010s
18 births
- 2020s
2020s
26 births
What this shows Peak: 2020s at 26 births (59% of all-time use).
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Two nationwide peer axes for Oya: closest SSA peak year, and closest first→latest record span. Distinct from the spelling and current-rank neighborhoods above.
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Peak year is the single SSA year with the most births for that name; record span is first-to-latest year in the national files, not a recommendation or shared origin claim.
Data Sources
Data as of August 2026. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
According to the Social Security Administration, this profile draws directly from the agency's public-use baby-name files (updated June 2026). See our methodology for the full extraction, aggregation, and privacy-suppression rules.
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data, 2017–2025 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
Name Almanac is rendered directly from the Social Security Administration's public baby-name files, no number is typed in by an editor. This profile for Oya draws directly on SSA national and state-level files, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of August 2026.