Oleta
Oleta is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 421st, in 1915.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 1920216 births
- Best rank
- #421in 1915
- Since 1888
- 5,472people given the name
The story in the numbers
5,472 girls have been named Oleta in the United States since 1888, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1920, with 216 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 216 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1925, and the 1920s alone account for 31%. It has spent 41 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Oleta | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 5 | |
| 1890s | 23 | |
| 1900s | 198 | |
| 1910s | 1,533 | |
| 1920s | 1,674 | |
| 1930s | 990 | |
| 1940s | 523 | |
| 1950s | 265 | |
| 1960s | 137 | |
| 1970s | 75 | |
| 1980s | 22 | |
| 1990s | 15 | |
| 2010s | 5 | |
| 2020s | 7 |
In 1920, its biggest year
Oleta was the 459th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1920 were Mary, Dorothy, Helen, Margaret and Ruth. See all of 1920.
Names that rose and fell with Oleta
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Orenepeak 1919
- Elinorepeak 1917
- Dorothapeak 1921
- Concettapeak 1924
- Dorathypeak 1921
- Olethapeak 1923
- Alverapeak 1918
- Lorenepeak 1920
Other spellings in the data
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.