How Many People Are Named Oona?

1,742

people named Oona are alive in the United States today (estimate)

About 1 in 196,202 people in the US has this name

Based on 1,776 babies named Oona in Social Security records from 1942 to 2025, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.

Popularity Rank

#7,360

πŸ’ŽπŸ’Ž Very Rare

Rank Among Girl Names

#4,122

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Peak Year

2015

131 births

Trend

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Stable (last 10 years)

πŸ“– Name Origin & Meaning

Origin: Irish, Finnish
Pronunciation: OO-na (Irish), O-nah (Finnish)
Gender: Primarily Female

Meaning:

Irish variant and Finnish form of ÚNA.

Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.

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⚧ Gender Distribution

Female
100.0%
Male
0.0%

All of the babies given the name Oona in the records were girls.

πŸ‘₯ Age Distribution

The average person named Oona alive today is about 16 years old, and 86% are under 30. Half of them were between 5 and 19 in 2025.

Under 30 1,498
86%
30 to 59 204
11.7%
60 and over 40
2.3%

πŸ“ˆ Popularity Over Time

Oona first appears in the records in 1942 and was given most often in 2015, to 131 babies. In 2025, 62 babies got the name.

Babies given the name each year, 1942 to 2025

πŸ† Rank History

Oona has never been one of the 100 most popular girls' names. Its best rank was #1,639, in 2015. In 2025 it ranked #2,768.

Girls
Rank in 2025#2,768
Best rank#1,639 (2015)
Years in the top 100None
Rank in its biggest decade#2,510 in the 2010s

πŸ“ State-Wise Distribution

People named Oona alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).

More people named Oona were born in California than in any other state: about 250 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Oona was given 5.3 times as often in New York and 2.8 times in California.

California 250
New York 210
Washington 46
Massachusetts 31
Oregon 24
Illinois 16
Florida 12
Pennsylvania 10
Michigan 9
Texas 7
Utah 5
Ohio 5
Minnesota 5
Maine 5
North Carolina 5

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