Oona is a first name for girls.
Oona is a well-known name in the US, but is still special. It is currently only given to every ten thousandth girl, and therefore ranks at 2,106 in the SmartGenius statistics. This means there are 2,105 girls names that are more common, but also tens of thousands that are much rarer. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Oona.
In fact, the name Oona did not fit the trend of the last century. Young parents in the 2000s began to change that a bit. After several years of not being given at all (or less than 5 times, because that's the number required for a name to appear in the statistics), Oona seemed to be more popular than ever in 2015. Although the name never ranked higher than #1,508, 131 parents chose it that year, making it a potential new rising star on the horizon of beautiful and rare names. If your name is Oona, you are well on your way to becoming en vogue.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Oona was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
In 2022, expectant parents chose the yet rare name Oona a few times. Among all newborn girls it ranked #2,044 - with a total of 81 baby girls. This means, as you can see above, that the name is still more common than it was most time of the last century, when it supposedly didn't appear at all for many years - giving girls with this first name a sheen of something particularly contemporary and special.
The odds of living in the same statae as someone named Oona are about the same as meeting someone with blue eyes in the entire country – both odds are about 25 to 30 %. More precisely, the first name Oona is registered in 15 states, among which are California, Florida, Illinois, Maine or Massachusetts. In proportion to the female population, most women and girls with the first name Oona live in Washington, and even there the name is rather special – only one in 57,601 would turn around if you called the name Oona across Washington.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter O is quite rare as a first letter for girls' names: only 1.0% of all common girls' names in the US begin with an O. By the way, the most common first letters of girls' names are A, S and M, while U, X and Q are the least common initials of girls' names.
With four letters, the name Oona is shorter than most other given names. In fact, only 5.5% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly four letters. Just 1.2% of all first names are even shorter, while 93% consist of more than four letters. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
Therefore: As 1.0% of all girls' names begin with an O, this initial letter is significantly less common than the other letters on average. However, individual girls' names with O are really popular, the most common currently being Olivia.
If your name is Oona and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Oona, you can simply say:
Orange
Orange
Nut
Apple
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Oona
Oona
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
O
O
N
A
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
O
O
N
A
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Oona sounds like this:
