girls:
181 births since 1892
#5535 (3rd percentile)
boys:
124 births since 1913
#4462 (3rd percentile)
overall:
305 births since 1892
#7434 (4th percentile)
The name Okie is the #7,434 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 305 recorded births since 1892. This represents the 3.9% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 3.9% of all names). For girls, it ranks #5,535 (3.1% percentile) for all time with 181 births since 1892. For boys, it ranks #4,462 (2.6% percentile) for all time with 124 births since 1913.
Okie first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1892 (1892 for girls and 1913 for boys). Birth data for Okie is available in 31 out of the 76 years between 1892 and 1967 (24 years for girls and 19 years for boys). 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.
The name Okie has been given to both genders, with a slight preference for girls (59.3% of all recorded births). In 1967, 0.0% of babies named Okie were girls. Interestingly, until around 1939, the name was more popular for girls (66.5% girls from 1892 to 1938), but since then it has been more commonly used for boys (100.0% boys from 1939 to 1967).
For girls, Okie reached its peak popularity in 1920, achieving the 1.5% percentile (ranked #599) with 11 births per million. The name was most common in 1892, with 27 births per million (ranked 0.3% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1934.
For boys, Okie reached its peak popularity in 1932, achieving the 0.9% percentile (ranked #525) with 9 births per million. The name was most common in 1914, with 10 births per million (ranked 0.4% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1967.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Okie".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Okie is pronounced as OH-kee, which has 2 syllables.
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