Every name given to a US baby since 1880, ranked year by year — straight from Social Security Administration birth records. 105,966 names · 375,362,447 births · public domain.

Omeka

#24,394 most common girls' name of all time · #39,592 across all names · 0% male / 100% female · used 1970–1988

Rank among girls
#24,394
Rank overall
#39,592 of 105,966
First appeared
1970
Years on the list
12 of 146
All-time
106
Since 2016
0
Peak year
1976 #4,118
Best rank
#4,118 1976
Girls Boys peak 16/yr
1980

Omeka first appears in 1970. That's the first year it was given to at least 5 US babies, which is the threshold below which the SSA withholds a name.

Year by year

YearGirlsBoysTotalRank
1988 5 — 5 #12,563
1982 10 — 10 #6,690
1981 5 — 5 #11,255
1980 6 — 6 #9,768
1979 12 — 12 #5,666
1978 11 — 11 #5,841
1977 7 — 7 #8,141
1976 16 — 16 #4,118
1975 12 — 12 #5,110
1974 5 — 5 #9,662
1973 12 — 12 #4,849
1970 5 — 5 #9,228