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Ogechi

#12,841 in 2025Girls' name

God's time

Ogechi has been given to 296 babies in the U.S. since 1980. In 2025 it ranked #12,841 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1997, with 15 recorded.

Babies named Ogechi, 2025

1 in 474,000

Ogechi over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Ogechi: meaning, origin, and history

God's time

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Ogechi means

Ogechi means “God's time”.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Ogechi is used in Igbo.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 296 girls were recorded with the name Ogechi between 1980 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 15 in 1997; its best national rank was #5,267 in 1985.

Over 10 years its rank rose, from #15,912 in 2015 to #12,841 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.

How common is Ogechi?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 474,000
7 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 230,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#12,841
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
328,272 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Ogechi sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

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 328,272 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Ogechi. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Ogechis were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Ogechi was born before 2000 — so the typical Ogechi is around 25 today.

Median birth year
2000
About 25 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
30.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
49.7%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
296
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 30.1% of all recorded uses (89).

Is Ogechi 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
—
Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
+3,071
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.17×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
46.7%
Peak was 1997 (15)
Years since peak
28
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
26.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#5,267
1985

Where Ogechi is used

Across 1910–2025, Ogechi was most concentrated in Texas — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 2,456,184 across all states with data.

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Most concentrated

  1. 1Texas1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls 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. Ogechi has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Ogechi around the world

Where Ogechi 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
    1996–2025
    #5,927
    in 2025
  • Ireland
    2002–2002
    #620
    in 2002
  • South Australia
    1981–2011
    #840
    in 2011

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Central Statistics Office and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Ogechi by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#12,841
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
New entry
Best rank ever
#5,267
1985
Peak year
1997
15 that year
First recorded
1980
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
296
Count in 2025
7

Names similar to Ogechi

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Ogechi

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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