Onesimo
About 594 American babies have been named Onesimo since 1917, most of them around 1982. It has not appeared in the national data since 2023. About 400 Onesimos are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 40.
Popularity, 1880–2025
boys named Onesimo
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 594
- Estimated living today
- 400
- Median age today
- 40
- Peak year
- 1982
- Best rank
- 2,831st
- Rank in 2025
- unranked
- First recorded
- 1917
How old the living Onesimos are
born that year still alive today
Of the 594 babies given the name since 1917, about 400 are alive — 67 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1985 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.
Notable Onesimos
- Onésimo Sánchez (born 1968)Spanish football player/manager
- Onésimo Cepeda (1937–2022)Mexican bishop
People named Onesimo with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Onesimo is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Onesimo is most concentrated in Texas (11.6×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1982
The most popular boys’ names the year Onesimo peaked:
Where Onesimo lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 385 men called Onesimo were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.
Men: the provinces where it is densest
| Province | Spelling | People | Per thousand | Place there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Zamora | Onesimo | 12 | 0.146 | 484 |
| Valladolid | Onesimo | 28 | 0.109 | 580 |
| León | Onesimo | 23 | 0.105 | 624 |
| Palencia | Onesimo | 7 | 0.089 | 697 |
| Santa Cruz de Tenerife | Onesimo | 43 | 0.081 | 1,067 |
| Ávila | Onesimo | 6 | 0.074 | 720 |
Listed in 22 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 30 it is either held by fewer than 5 people – the point below which the source withholds a name – or it fell past the 5,000 names the source will print for one province. Neither means nobody there is called it. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.
Related names
Onesimo 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.