Okey
Okey is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 531st, in 1882.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 192548 births
- Best rank
- #531in 1882
- Since 1881
- 1,462people given the name
The story in the numbers
1,462 boys have been named Okey in the United States since 1881, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1925, with 48 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 48 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1930, and the 1920s alone account for 21%. It has spent 20 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Okey | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 58 | |
| 1890s | 64 | |
| 1900s | 84 | |
| 1910s | 191 | |
| 1920s | 310 | |
| 1930s | 267 | |
| 1940s | 178 | |
| 1950s | 142 | |
| 1960s | 85 | |
| 1970s | 62 | |
| 1980s | 14 | |
| 1990s | 7 |
In 1925, its biggest year
Okey was the 995th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1925 were Robert, John, William, James and Charles. See all of 1925.
Names that rose and fell with Okey
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Lonzopeak 1919
- Odiepeak 1918
- Rufuspeak 1922
- Lutherpeak 1922
- Claudepeak 1920
- Monroepeak 1921
- Earlypeak 1927
- Percypeak 1921
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.