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Onita

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Onita is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. It has never entered the top 1,000.

Rank in 2024
fewer than 5 births
Births in 2024
0not in the data
Peak year
192534 births
Best rank
never in the top 1,000
Since 1899
1,162people given the name
Babies named Onita, by year of birthgirls
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The story in the numbers

1,162 girls have been named Onita in the United States since 1899, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1925, with 34 births.

The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 34 at the peak.

Half of everyone given the name was born by 1937, and the 1920s alone account for 23%.

By decade

Decadegirls named Onita
1890s6
1900s24
1910s127
1920s266
1930s207
1940s151
1950s165
1960s124
1970s78
1980s14

In 1925, its biggest year

Onita was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five girls’ names of 1925 were Mary, Dorothy, Betty, Helen and Margaret. See all of 1925.

Names that rose and fell with Onita

Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.

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.