Oletha
Oletha is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. It has never entered the top 1,000.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 192341 births
- Best rank
- —never in the top 1,000
- Since 1897
- 1,214people given the name
The story in the numbers
1,214 girls have been named Oletha in the United States since 1897, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1923, with 41 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 41 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1929, and the 1920s alone account for 27%.
By decade
In 1923, its biggest year
Oletha was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five girls’ names of 1923 were Mary, Dorothy, Helen, Margaret and Betty. See all of 1923.
Names that rose and fell with Oletha
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Concettapeak 1924
- Lorenepeak 1920
- Dorathypeak 1921
- Erlinepeak 1927
- Leonardapeak 1920
- Vernicepeak 1923
- Arettapeak 1923
- Dorothypeak 1924
Other spellings in the data
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.