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Uzoma

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Good way

Uzoma has been given to 133 babies in the U.S. since 1981. 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 1997, with 14 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 94% boys, 6% girls all-time.

Babies named Uzoma, 2020

1 in 477,000

Uzoma over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Girls or boys — Uzoma over time

In 2020, Uzoma went to 0% girls and 100% boys.

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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.

Uzoma: meaning, origin, and history

Good way

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Uzoma means

Uzoma means “good way”.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Uzoma is used in Igbo.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 125 boys were recorded with the name Uzoma between 1981 and 2020. Its highest annual count was 14 in 1997; its best national rank was #4,650 in 1997.

In the United States, 8 girls were recorded with the name Uzoma between 2002 and 2002. Its highest annual count was 8 in 2002; its best national rank was #12,134 in 2002.

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 Uzoma?

Uzoma had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2020, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2020
1 in 477,000
7 of 3,342,313 births
Among boys only
1 in 247,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2020
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
330,960 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Uzoma sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2020 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 330,960 children born in 2020 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Uzoma. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Uzomas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Uzoma was born before 1997 — so the typical Uzoma is around 28 today.

Median birth year
1997
About 28 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
34.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
62.4%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
125
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Choose a decade

1990s — 34.4% of all recorded uses (43).

Is Uzoma 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 1997 (14)
Years since peak
28
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
34.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#4,650
1997

Spellings of Uzoma

Uzoma is not the most common spelling — Toma is, with 48.4% against Uzoma's 9.2%.

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.

Uzoma around the world

Where Uzoma 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.

  • England & Wales
    1996–2011
    #4,647
    in 2011

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0.

Uzoma by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#4,650
1997
Peak year
1997
14 that year
First recorded
1981
Last recorded
2020
All-time count
125
Count in 2025
Under 5

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#12,134
2002
Peak year
2002
8 that year
First recorded
2002
Last recorded
2002
All-time count
8
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Uzoma

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

RyomaSomaTacomaThomaShlomaRomaTomaShomaOmaNakomaNacomaTakomaAnkomaComaLoma

Sibling names for Uzoma

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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