Meaning not yet researched.
Oona: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 62 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,639 in 2015.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,639 in 2015; #2,768 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Oona in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,768 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2015, at #1,639.
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Oona: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 62 girls in 2025. Peak: #1,639 in 2015 · most girls in one year: 131 (2015).
In 2025, 62 US girls were named Oona, making it the 2,768th most common girls’ name of the year, down 284 places from #2,484 in 2024. That is 11 fewer than the 73 girls named Oona in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,639, reached in 2015. That year also had the most girls given the name: 131. For comparison, it was #1,639 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Oona in 62 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1942 with 5 babies. In all, 1,776 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 718 babies named Oona.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 819 US girls were named Oona; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 112. In 2025 that was about 1 in 25,924 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Oona ranked highest in New York in 2025, at #1,394 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Una (8,108 babies since 1880) and Ona (8,031 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Oonagh are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Finnish. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Oonagh (75).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Oona in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 49 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 10 | #1,394 | #1,052 |
| California | 7 | #2,709 | #1,236 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 62 | #2,768 | — | — |
| 2024 | 73 | #2,484 | — | — |
| 2023 | 85 | #2,221 | — | — |
| 2022 | 84 | #2,245 | — | — |
| 2021 | 82 | #2,261 | — | — |
| 2020 | 76 | #2,333 | — | — |
| 2019 | 72 | #2,476 | — | — |
| 2018 | 78 | #2,357 | — | — |
| 2017 | 95 | #2,068 | — | — |
| 2016 | 112 | #1,852 | — | — |
| 2015 | 131 | #1,639 | — | — |
| 2014 | 63 | #2,772 | — | — |
| 2013 | 38 | #3,984 | — | — |
| 2012 | 40 | #3,899 | — | — |
| 2011 | 48 | #3,396 | — | — |
| 2010 | 41 | #3,798 | — | — |
| 2009 | 34 | #4,451 | — | — |
| 2008 | 34 | #4,526 | — | — |
| 2007 | 32 | #4,638 | — | — |
| 2006 | 36 | #4,138 | — | — |
| 2005 | 27 | #4,930 | — | — |
| 2004 | 27 | #4,913 | — | — |
| 2003 | 18 | #6,505 | — | — |
| 2002 | 25 | #4,865 | — | — |
| 2001 | 23 | #5,132 | — | — |
| 2000 | 19 | #5,882 | — | — |
| 1999 | 13 | #7,600 | — | — |
| 1998 | 16 | #6,297 | — | — |
| 1997 | 7 | #11,753 | — | — |
| 1996 | 18 | #5,465 | — | — |
| 1995 | 12 | #7,391 | — | — |
| 1994 | 7 | #11,424 | — | — |
| 1993 | 11 | #7,912 | — | — |
| 1992 | 5 | #14,880 | — | — |
| 1990 | 5 | #14,564 | — | — |
| 1987 | 6 | #10,848 | — | — |
| 1985 | 6 | #10,262 | — | — |
| 1984 | 5 | #11,640 | — | — |
| 1983 | 5 | #11,481 | — | — |
| 1981 | 9 | #7,207 | — | — |
| 1980 | 9 | #7,213 | — | — |
| 1979 | 10 | #6,550 | — | — |
| 1978 | 8 | #7,434 | — | — |
| 1977 | 7 | #8,162 | — | — |
| 1976 | 9 | #6,425 | — | — |
| 1975 | 16 | #4,079 | — | — |
| 1974 | 17 | #3,820 | — | — |
| 1973 | 12 | #4,766 | — | — |
| 1972 | 19 | #3,369 | — | — |
| 1971 | 10 | #5,408 | — | — |
| 1970 | 6 | #7,710 | — | — |
| 1969 | 8 | #5,826 | — | — |
| 1967 | 7 | #5,879 | — | — |
| 1966 | 6 | #6,354 | — | — |
| 1965 | 8 | #5,167 | — | — |
| 1964 | 8 | #5,337 | — | — |
| 1962 | 7 | #5,700 | — | — |
| 1961 | 7 | #5,690 | — | — |
| 1954 | 5 | #6,376 | — | — |
| 1944 | 5 | #5,072 | — | — |
| 1943 | 7 | #4,096 | — | — |
| 1942 | 5 | #5,187 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).