Recorded 1880–2018 · United States
Oma was most popular in 1916, when 294 American babies were given the name — ranking #659 that year. It was not recorded in 2025. Across 1880–2025 the Social Security Administration has recorded 9,779 people named Oma.
The Social Security Administration’s records begin in 1880, and Oma is already there in that first year — so the name is older than the record and these figures cannot date it. It has been recorded in 115 of the 146 years since. It was last recorded in 2018.
The Social Security Administration has recorded 9,779 American births named Oma between 1880 and 2025. That is recorded US births, not a world population — it counts people issued a Social Security number at birth in the United States. Of those, roughly 1,429 are estimated to be alive today.
Oma was not recorded in 2025. The SSA withholds any name given to fewer than five babies in a year, so fewer than five American babies were given it.
Across the whole record Oma is a girl’s name — 98.2% of the 9,779 Americans given it were girls and 1.8% were boys. In births since 2016 it is 100% girls and 0% boys.
Counted from every US birth the Social Security Administration recorded under this name, so it reflects use rather than opinion. A name given to fewer than five babies of one sex in a year is withheld at source and is not counted.
Roughly 1,429 Americans named Oma are alive today — 15% of everyone ever recorded with the name. The median is 78 years old, and half are between 68 and 87.
An estimate, not a count. Recorded births are carried forward through the Social Security Administration’s 2023 period life table, by age and sex. That table describes mortality in one recent year, so it credits the oldest cohorts with today’s survival rather than the harsher rates they actually lived through — the further back a name peaked, the more this will overstate how many remain. It counts people issued a Social Security number at birth, not immigrants who arrived later.
How much more common the name is in each state than across the country as a whole.
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Source: U.S.A. Social Security Administration. Years 1880–2025. namelegacy.org