Oona

femaleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Oona: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Oona: Recorded since 1969, with a gap of 14 years, its highest recorded position is #443, and it stood at #476 in 2024.

3registrars recorded it
31times a registrar ranked it
56years from first to last
#443highest recorded position
6groupings it qualifies for

What stands out in Oona's record

Absent from every published list for 14 years inside its own recorded period, then ranked again. Names by longest absence

Region

Rising

among girls in England and Wales · 1996–2024

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England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#3795
1997	#3174
1998	#2407
1999	#2189
2000	#2746
2001	#2783
2002	#2868
2004	#4598
2005	#2970
2006	#2781
2007	#3667
2008	#2292
2009	#2535
2010	#3156
2011	#2893
2012	#2717
2013	#2176
2014	#1882
2015	#2070
2016	#1689
2017	#1457
2018	#1649
2019	#1349
2020	#1556
2021	#918
2022	#1326
2023	#1705
2024	#1302

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

RisingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among girls in England and Wales in 28 of the 29 years from 1996 to 2024.

In 2024: #476 among girls in Scotland, #1302 among girls in England and Wales.

Official data from 3 national registrars across 3 regions, 1969–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1969
First recorded at #443 among girls in Republic of Ireland in 1969 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
Republic of Ireland · Girls
Highest recorded1969–1981
Highest recorded position: #443 among girls in Republic of Ireland, in 1969 (recorded 1969–1981).
Republic of Ireland · Girls
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #1302 among girls in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Girls

Oona appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Girls, with 28 ranked years and 343 births registered; the earliest is Republic of Ireland · Girls, from 1969.

Oona across 2 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Oona's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
England and Wales · Girls	#3795 (1996)	#918 (2021)	#1302 (2024)	28 of 29	343 (1996–2024)	38 (2021)
Republic of Ireland · Girls	#443 (1969)	#443 (1969)	#533 (1981)	2 of 13	6 (1969–1981)	3 (1969)

Oona by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Oona in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	20	4 of 10	5
2000s	55	9 of 10	6
2010s	145	10 of 10	15
2020sbusiest	123	5 of 10	25

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2020s were its busiest decade — the 5 years of it this list covers, averaging 25 births a year.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Oona appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 3 regions, from 1969 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #443 in Republic of Ireland in 1969.

Oona's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	female	#1302	25	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#1705	17	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#1326	24	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#918	38	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#1556	19	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#1349	23	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#1649	18	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#1457	22	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#1689	18	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#2070	13	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#1882	15	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#2176	12	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#2717	9	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#2893	8	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#3156	7	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#2535	9	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#2292	10	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#3667	5	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#2781	7	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#2970	6	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#4598	3	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#2868	5	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#2783	5	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#2746	5	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#2189	7	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#2407	6	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#3174	4	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#3795	3	High	Verified
1981	Republic of Ireland	female	#533	3	High	Verified
1969	Republic of Ireland	female	#443	3	High	Verified
2024	Scotland	female	#476	6	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland
Scotland hub — collected by National Records of Scotland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 3 registrars between 1969 and 2024, ranked in 30 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #443, first reached in 1969.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 38 births, registered in England and Wales in 2021.

Its record falls into 4 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 14 years.

A second registrar first ranked it in 1996, and 55 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

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A comparable record

Records held by the same 3 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Maiya · #444, 28y
Nikole · #444, 25y
Poppi · #444, 26y
Annaliese · #440, 29y

Also first recorded in the 1960s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1960 and 1969.

Celestine · #443, 21y
Isolde · #443, 27y
Rosaria · #443, 11y
Saleh · #445, 43y

Oona was ranked #443 in Republic of Ireland · Girls in 1969. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Oona and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Oona without appearing here.

Oona moved ahead of

Hennie Compare
In 2013 they stood at #4598 and #4598 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2014 that had become #1882 and #5691.
Gail Compare
In 2007 they stood at #3667 and #3667 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2008 that had become #2292 and #5545.
George Compare
In 2007 they stood at #4598 and #2802 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2008 that had become #2292 and #5545.
Kristine Compare
In 2007 they stood at #3667 and #3667 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2008 that had become #2292 and #5545.

Moved ahead of Oona

Frida Compare
In 2003 they stood at #2868 and #3409 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2004 that had become #4598 and #1836.
Harper Compare
In 2003 they stood at #2783 and #3262 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2004 that had become #4598 and #3725.
Blake Compare
In 2014 they stood at #1882 and #2203 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2015 that had become #2070 and #1240.
Fiadh Compare
In 2017 they stood at #1457 and #2502 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2018 that had become #1649 and #1436.

Moved the opposite way to Oona

Abigail Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Oona went from #3795 to #1302 while Abigail went from #21 to #154.
Aimee Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Oona went from #3795 to #1302 while Aimee went from #70 to #1603.
Aisling Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Oona went from #3795 to #1302 while Aisling went from #440 to #2000.
Alex Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Oona went from #3795 to #1302 while Alex went from #161 to #2253.

Moved the same way as Oona

Ada Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Oona went from #3795 to #1302 and Ada from #2683 to #40.
Alma Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Oona went from #3795 to #1302 and Alma from #2096 to #234.
Alyssa Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Oona went from #3795 to #1302 and Alyssa from #783 to #285.
Amalie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Oona went from #3795 to #1302 and Amalie from #2096 to #1128.

What's not yet available

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Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 3 regions, from 1969 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #443 in Republic of Ireland in 1969. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Oona

Oona at a glance

What stands out in Oona's record

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Oona across 2 official records

Oona by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Oona appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

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Oona at a glance

What stands out in Oona's record

Oona across 2 official records

Oona by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Oona appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1960s

Names published alongside Oona

Oona and the names beside it

Oona moved ahead of

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