boys:
1.5k births since 1881
#3182 (31st percentile)
overall:
1.5k births since 1881
#6283 (19th percentile)
The name Okey is the #6,283 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,462 recorded births since 1881. This represents the 18.8% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 18.8% of all names). For boys, it ranks #3,182 (30.6% percentile) for all time with 1,462 births since 1881.
Okey first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1881 (first recorded for boys in 1881). Birth data for Okey is available in 96 out of the 115 years between 1881 and 1995. The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
For boys, Okey reached its peak popularity in 1925, achieving the 7.9% percentile (ranked #503) with 42 births per million. The name was most common in 1882, with 107 births per million (ranked 3.9% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1995.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Okey".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Okey is pronounced as OH-kee, which has 2 syllables.
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