Oma
Oma is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 276th, in 1901.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 1916284 births
- Best rank
- #276in 1901
- Since 1880
- 9,598people given the name
The story in the numbers
9,598 girls have been named Oma in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1916, with 284 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 284 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1920, and the 1920s alone account for 23%. It has spent 66 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Oma | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 394 | |
| 1890s | 859 | |
| 1900s | 1,250 | |
| 1910s | 2,098 | |
| 1920s | 2,222 | |
| 1930s | 1,326 | |
| 1940s | 717 | |
| 1950s | 386 | |
| 1960s | 159 | |
| 1970s | 88 | |
| 1980s | 38 | |
| 1990s | 26 | |
| 2000s | 16 | |
| 2010s | 19 |
In 1916, its biggest year
Oma was the 366th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1916 were Mary, Helen, Dorothy, Margaret and Ruth. See all of 1916.
Names that rose and fell with Oma
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Vestapeak 1918
- Virgiepeak 1918
- Essiepeak 1921
- Verdiepeak 1918
- Madgepeak 1920
- Beulahpeak 1916
- Ednapeak 1918
- Maybellepeak 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.