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Oleta

Girls' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Oleta has been given to 5,472 babies in the U.S. since 1888. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1920, with 216 recorded.

Babies named Oleta, 2021

1 in 484,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Oleta: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Oleta means

Oleta is a given name.

The naming story behind Oleta

Wikidata records Oleta as a given name. The entity identifier is Q124737657, and the classification was checked on 2026-10-20. The spelling matches a source label or alias exactly, without removing accents or linking it to a name merely because the letters look similar.

A database classification is different from an etymological explanation, so those questions remain open in the short meaning.

A modern root explanation needs an additional naming or linguistic reference.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 5,472 girls were recorded with the name Oleta between 1888 and 2021. Its highest annual count was 216 in 1920; its best national rank was #421 in 1915.

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 Oleta?

Oleta had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2021, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2021
1 in 484,000
7 of 3,389,958 births
Among girls only
1 in 234,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2021
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
335,678 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Oleta 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 2021 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 335,678 children born in 2021 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Oleta. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Oletas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Oleta was born before 1925 — so the typical Oleta is around 100 today.

Median birth year
1925
About 100 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
30.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
0.22%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
526
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1920s — 30.6% of all recorded uses (1,674).

Is Oleta 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
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1920 (216)
Years since peak
105
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
45.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#421
1915

Spellings of Oleta

Oleta is not the most common spelling — Lena is, with 17.6% against Oleta's 0.66%.

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 Oleta is used

Across 1910–2025, Oleta was most concentrated in Oklahoma — about 1 in 1,961 girls, against 1 in 28,060 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in —).

051 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Oklahoma1 in 1,961
  2. 2Arkansas1 in 5,556
  3. 3Texas1 in 8,333
  4. 4West Virginia1 in 11,111
  5. 5Missouri1 in 25,000
  6. 6Kentucky1 in 33,333
  7. 7Kansas1 in 50,000
  8. 8Alabama1 in 100,000

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. Oleta has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Notable people named Oleta

People whose public names include Oleta, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Oleta by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#421
1915
Peak year
1920
216 that year
First recorded
1888
Last recorded
2021
All-time count
5,472
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Oleta

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

AletaOlenaOleneLetaCletaOleetaGretaOleviaOleanVioletaMetaZetaOlethaJulietaOlettaRetaNetaOnetaFletaRhetaWanetaAlmetaOledaVeta

Names with a curve like Oleta

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Oleta, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

ElveraMozelleJohnieDorothaElnaMyrticeOdellThedaRubyeAdellFloreneGarnet

Sibling names for Oleta

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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