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Onalee

Onalee is a girl's name that peaked in 1928, when it was the 1,290th most popular in the United States. In 2025 it ranked 10,917th. About 450 Onalees are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 19.

Popularity, 1880–2025

Births per year, 1880 to 2025 0 10 20 30 40 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

girls named Onalee

By the numbers

Total US births
1,007
Estimated living today
450
Median age today
19
Peak year
1928
Best rank
1,290th
Rank in 2025
10,917th
First recorded
1904

How old the living Onalees are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 10 20 30 40 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 1,007 babies given the name since 1904, about 450 are alive — 45 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2006 and half after.

An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.

Where Onalee is most common

Relative to how many babies each state records, Onalee is most concentrated in Michigan (22.4×), New York (1.6×).

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 1928

The most popular girls’ names the year Onalee peaked:

All the names of 1928

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Onalee against another name

Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.

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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.