Oda
Oda is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 498th, in 1889.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 191843 births
- Best rank
- #498in 1889
- Since 1880
- 1,625people given the name
The story in the numbers
1,324 girls have been named Oda in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1918, with 43 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 43 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1915, and the 1920s alone account for 23%. It has spent 31 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Oda is used for both sexes: 19% of its bearers are boys (301), most of them born around 1916.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
In 1918, its biggest year
Oda was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five girls’ names of 1918 were Mary, Helen, Dorothy, Margaret and Ruth. See all of 1918.
Names that rose and fell with Oda
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Zulapeak 1922
- Cordiapeak 1917
- Orphapeak 1917
- Myrtlepeak 1918
- Mamiepeak 1919
- Mabelpeak 1915
- Polliepeak 1920
- Pearlpeak 1918
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.