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Oday

#6,061 in 2025Boys' name

From Arabic عُدَي; literal meaning unconfirmed

Oday has been given to 164 babies in the U.S. since 1991. In 2025 it ranked #6,061 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2018, with 19 recorded.

Babies named Oday, 2025

1 in 221,000

Oday over time, 1880–2025

Boys
0510152018801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Oday: meaning, origin, and history

From Arabic عُدَي; literal meaning unconfirmed

Arabic

What Oday means

Oday is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Oday is used in English. Its origins include Arabic.

Oday comes through Arabic عُدَي.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 164 boys were recorded with the name Oday between 1991 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 19 in 2018; its best national rank was #5,051 in 2018.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #8,539 in 2020 to #6,061 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #9,330 in 2015 to #6,061 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Oday?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 221,000
15 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 114,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#6,061
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
153,194 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Oday sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 153,194 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Oday. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Odays were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Oday was born before 2019 — so the typical Oday is around 6 today.

Median birth year
2019
About 6 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
50.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
93.3%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
164
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Choose a decade

2020s — 50.0% of all recorded uses (82).

Is Oday rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
+41
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+2,478
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+3,269
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.88×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
78.9%
Peak was 2018 (19)
Years since peak
7
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
23.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#5,051
2018

Spellings of Oday

Oday is not the most common spelling — Adam is, with 33.2% against Oday's <0.01%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Oday is used

Across 1910–2025, Oday was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 2,220,640 across all states with data.

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New York1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Oday has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Oday around the world

Where Oday ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    2018–2025
    #4,275
    in 2025
  • France
    2012–2025
    #4,783
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2021–2022
    #2,335
    in 2022
  • South Australia
    2013–2013
    #754
    in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Oday by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#6,061
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 2,478
Best rank ever
#5,051
2018
Peak year
2018
19 that year
First recorded
1991
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
164
Count in 2025
15

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