girls:
365 births since 1884
#5351 (6th percentile)
boys:
471 births since 1896
#4115 (10th percentile)
overall:
836 births since 1884
#6903 (11th percentile)
The name Ovie is the #6,903 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 836 recorded births since 1884. This represents the 10.8% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 10.8% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,115 (10.2% percentile) for all time with 471 births since 1896. For girls, it ranks #5,351 (6.4% percentile) for all time with 365 births since 1884.
Ovie first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1884 (1884 for girls and 1896 for boys). Birth data for Ovie is available in 70 out of the 140 years between 1884 and 2023 (51 years for boys and 38 years for girls). 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 Ovie has been given to both genders, with a slight preference for boys (56.3% of all recorded births). In 2023, 100.0% of babies named Ovie were boys. Interestingly, until around 1925, the name was more popular for girls (65.2% girls from 1884 to 1924), but since then it has been more commonly used for boys (83.1% boys from 1925 to 2023).
For boys, Ovie reached its peak popularity in 1917, achieving the 2.5% percentile (ranked #504) with 19 births per million. The name was most common in 1896, with 39 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2014, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Ovie ranks #894 for boys (1.9% percentile) with 12 births per million, which is 31.0% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Ovie reached its peak popularity in 1920, achieving the 2.5% percentile (ranked #593) with 16 births per million. The name was most common in 1901, with 39 births per million (ranked 1.5% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1940.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Ovie".
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