Onie
Onie reached its high-water mark in 1918 at number 894, and has been recorded 2,063 times in all. It has not appeared in the national data since 1997. About 210 Onies are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 79.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Onie boys named Onie
Girls and boys called Onie
years more girls than boys years more boys than girls
Both, throughout, without either side ever taking it over: 1,786 girls and 277 boys in all, and in 1937 the split was 19 to 6.
The girls’ share of each year’s babies of the name, in the 36 years in which at least 25 babies got it. The line touches the middle more often than there are crossings marked: a year or two on the other side is not a name changing hands, and only a move that holds for 5 counted years and reaches 60/40 is recorded as one. All 581 names that changed sex.
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 2,063
- Estimated living today
- 210
- Median age today
- 79
- Peak year
- 1918
- Best rank
- 894th
- Rank in 2025
- unranked
- First recorded
- 1880
- Girls / boys
- 1,786 / 277
How old the living Onies are
born that year still alive today
Of the 2,063 babies given the name since 1880, about 210 are alive — 10 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1946 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 Onie is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Onie is most concentrated in Mississippi (15.5×), Georgia (5.9×), Kentucky (4.1×), Tennessee (3.7×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1918
The most popular girls’ names the year Onie peaked:
Related names
Onie against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
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.