Oza
UnisexGirls' nameBoys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Oza has been given to 180 babies in the U.S. since 1899. 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 13 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 86% girls, 14% boys all-time.
Babies named Oza, 1949
1 in 697,000
Oza 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 — Oza over time
In 1961, Oza went to 0% girls and 100% 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 Oza?
Oza had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1949, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 1949
- 1 in 697,000
- 5 of 3,484,085 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 342,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 1949
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 482,998 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Oza sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 1949 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 482,998 children born in 1949 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Oza. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Ozas were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Oza was born before 1915 — so the typical Oza is around 110 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1910s
- 40.9% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 16.2%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 0
- People you could plausibly meet
1910s — 40.9% of all recorded uses (63).
Is Oza 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
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- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1924 (13)
- Years since peak
- 101
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 31.5% average annual change
Oza by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a girl's name
Names similar to Oza
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Oza
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.