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Onie

Recorded 1880–1997 · United States

Onie was most popular in 1918, when 70 American babies were given the name — ranking #1,603 that year. It was not recorded in 2025. Across 1880–2025 the Social Security Administration has recorded 2,063 people named Onie.

Most popular in1918
Rank that year#1,603
Births that year70
Total since 18802,063
Given to87% girls
Alive today~209
Median age81

Onie over time

18802025
Births per year. The dot marks Onie’s peak in 1918. Gaps are years the SSA suppressed, which it does for any name given to fewer than five babies.

How old is the name Onie?

The Social Security Administration’s records begin in 1880, and Onie 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 81 of the 146 years since. It was last recorded in 1997.

How many people are named Onie?

The Social Security Administration has recorded 2,063 American births named Onie 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 209 are estimated to be alive today.

How many babies were named Onie in 2025?

Onie 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.

Is Onie a boy’s or a girl’s name?

Across the whole record Onie is mostly a girl’s name — 86.6% of the 2,063 Americans given it were girls and 13.4% were 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.

How old is someone named Onie?

Roughly 209 Americans named Onie are alive today — 10% of everyone ever recorded with the name. The median is 81 years old, and half are between 72 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.

Where Onie is most concentrated

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