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Ouida

Girls' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Ouida has been given to 4,886 babies in the U.S. since 1887. 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 1924, with 151 recorded.

Babies named Ouida, 1995

1 in 610,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Ouida: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Ouida means

Ouida is a given name.

The naming story behind Ouida

Wikidata records Ouida as a female given name. The entity identifier is Q95247656, 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, 4,886 girls were recorded with the name Ouida between 1887 and 1995. Its highest annual count was 151 in 1924; its best national rank was #535 in 1933.

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 Ouida?

Ouida had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1995, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1995
1 in 610,000
6 of 3,660,254 births
Among girls only
1 in 293,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 1995
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
422,850 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Ouida 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 1995 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 422,850 children born in 1995 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Ouida. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Ouidas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Ouida was born before 1929 — so the typical Ouida is around 96 today.

Median birth year
1929
About 96 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
27.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
2.6%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
803
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1920s — 27.6% of all recorded uses (1,347).

Is Ouida 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 1924 (151)
Years since peak
101
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
38.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#535
1933

Spellings of Ouida

Ouida is not the most common spelling — Ida is, with 57.6% against Ouida's 1.5%.

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 Ouida is used

Across 1910–2025, Ouida was most concentrated in Mississippi — about 1 in 3,448 girls, against 1 in 13,898 across all states with data. It was least common in North Carolina (1 in —).

029 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Mississippi1 in 3,448
  2. 2Alabama1 in 7,692
  3. 3Georgia1 in 7,692
  4. 4Louisiana1 in 8,333
  5. 5Arkansas1 in 11,111
  6. 6Texas1 in 14,286
  7. 7Florida1 in 25,000
  8. 8Oklahoma1 in 50,000

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

Notable people named Ouida

People whose public names include Ouida, 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.

Ouida 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
#535
1933
Peak year
1924
151 that year
First recorded
1887
Last recorded
1995
All-time count
4,886
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Ouida

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

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Names with a curve like Ouida

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

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Sibling names for Ouida

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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