Onie
UnisexGirls' nameBoys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Onie has been given to 2,063 babies in the U.S. since 1880. 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 1918, with 64 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 87% girls, 13% boys all-time.
Babies named Onie, 1997
1 in 604,000
Onie over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
Girls or boys — Onie over time
In 1997, Onie went to 100% girls and 0% boys.
A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.
How common is Onie?
Onie had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1997, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 1997
- 1 in 604,000
- 6 of 3,624,676 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 290,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 1997
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 418,740 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Onie sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 1997 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 418,740 children born in 1997 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Onie. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Onies were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Onie was born before 1916 — so the typical Onie is around 109 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1910s
- 22.5% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 0.67%
- Mostly a past generation
- Recorded since 1950
- 65
- People you could plausibly meet
1910s — 22.5% of all recorded uses (402).
Is Onie 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
- —
- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1918 (64)
- Years since peak
- 107
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 26.8% average annual change
Spellings of Onie
Onie is not the most common spelling — Annie is, with 15.5% against Onie's 0.08%.
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 Onie is used — girls
Across 1910–2025, Onie was most concentrated in Mississippi — about 1 in 33,333 girls, against 1 in 157,400 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 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. Onie has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Where Onie is used — boys
Across 1910–2025, Onie was most concentrated in Kentucky — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 1,625,074 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 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. Onie has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Onie by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a girl's name
Names similar to Onie
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Onie
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.