Ouida
Ouida is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 535th, in 1933.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 1924151 births
- Best rank
- #535in 1933
- Since 1887
- 4,886people given the name
The story in the numbers
4,886 girls have been named Ouida in the United States since 1887, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1924, with 151 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 151 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1929, and the 1920s alone account for 28%. It has spent 47 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Ouida | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 14 | |
| 1890s | 123 | |
| 1900s | 217 | |
| 1910s | 757 | |
| 1920s | 1,347 | |
| 1930s | 1,027 | |
| 1940s | 598 | |
| 1950s | 439 | |
| 1960s | 220 | |
| 1970s | 112 | |
| 1980s | 26 | |
| 1990s | 6 |
In 1924, its biggest year
Ouida was the 612th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1924 were Mary, Dorothy, Helen, Betty and Margaret. See all of 1924.
Names that rose and fell with Ouida
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Ardellpeak 1922
- Wildapeak 1926
- Florinepeak 1921
- Wavapeak 1924
- Claricepeak 1921
- Bernardinepeak 1925
- Alenepeak 1920
- Verlapeak 1922
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.