Oma

Where Oma comes from

Coined as a feminine equivalent of Omar.
— Wiktionary's entry for Oma
  • 2 syllables
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #388 among girls — 18 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1901
    Peak, #275
    117 babies named Oma — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1946
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,276.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name
Namesakes

No widely known Oma turns up in the encyclopedias yet — the name is still all theirs to make famous.

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.