girls:
1.8k births since 1880
#3994 (30th percentile)
boys:
277 births since 1897
#4309 (6th percentile)
overall:
2.1k births since 1880
#5718 (26th percentile)
The name Onie is the #5,718 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 2,063 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 26.1% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 26.1% of all names). For girls, it ranks #3,994 (30.1% percentile) for all time with 1,786 births since 1880. For boys, it ranks #4,309 (6.0% percentile) for all time with 277 births since 1897.
Onie has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for girls and since 1897 for boys). Birth data for Onie is available in 81 out of the 118 years between 1880 and 1997 (80 years for girls and 37 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 Onie has been given predominantly to girls, with 86.6% of all recorded births being female. In 1997, 100.0% of babies named Onie were girls.
For girls, Onie reached its peak popularity in 1918, achieving the 10.0% percentile (ranked #531) with 53 births per million. The name was most common in 1883, with 133 births per million (ranked 4.9% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1997.
For boys, Onie reached its peak popularity in 1920, achieving the 2.8% percentile (ranked #520) with 18 births per million. The name was most common in 1898, with 45 births per million (ranked 0.4% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1955.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Onie".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Onie. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 84.2% confident that Onie is pronounced as OH-nee, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is AH-nee, at 15.8% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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