girls:
238 births since 1895
#5478 (4th percentile)
boys:
16 births since 1915
#4570 (0th percentile)
overall:
254 births since 1895
#7485 (3rd percentile)
The name Okla is the #7,485 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 254 recorded births since 1895. This represents the 3.3% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 3.3% of all names). For girls, it ranks #5,478 (4.1% percentile) for all time with 238 births since 1895. For boys, it ranks #4,570 (0.3% percentile) for all time with 16 births since 1915.
Okla first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1895 (1895 for girls and 1915 for boys). Birth data for Okla is available in 26 out of the 36 years between 1895 and 1930 (26 years for girls and 3 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 Okla has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 93.7% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Okla reached its peak popularity in 1922, achieving the 2.0% percentile (ranked #585) with 14 births per million. The name was most common in 1909, with 33 births per million (ranked 1.8% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1930.
For boys, Okla reached its peak popularity in 1916, achieving the 0.2% percentile (ranked #501) with 6 births per million. The name was most common in 1916, with 6 births per million (ranked 0.2% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1917.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Okla".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Okla is pronounced as OHK-luh, which has 2 syllables.
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