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Oya

#14,489 in 2025Girls' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Oya has been given to 44 babies in the U.S. since 2017. In 2025 it ranked #14,489 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2022, with 9 recorded.

Babies named Oya, 2025

1 in 553,000

Oya over time, 1880–2025

Girls
02.557.51018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Oya: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Oya means

Oya is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Oya is used in Turkish.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 44 girls were recorded with the name Oya between 2017 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 9 in 2022; its best national rank was #11,011 in 2022.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #16,922 in 2020 to #14,489 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 Oya?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 553,000
6 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 268,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#14,489
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
382,984 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Oya 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 382,984 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Oya. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Oyas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Oya was born before 2020 — so the typical Oya is around 5 today.

Median birth year
2020
About 5 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
59.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
44
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2020s — 59.1% of all recorded uses (26).

Is Oya 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
+2,433
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
66.7%
Peak was 2022 (9)
Years since peak
3
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
33.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#11,011
2022

Oya around the world

Where Oya 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.

  • France
    1978–2025
    #4,558
    in 2025

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Oya by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#14,489
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 2,433
Best rank ever
#11,011
2022
Peak year
2022
9 that year
First recorded
2017
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
44
Count in 2025
6

Names similar to Oya

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

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Sibling names for Oya

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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