Oveida vs Overton
American parents have registered 544 Overtons since 1880, against 7 Oveidas. Neither name reached five babies in 2025.
Babies given each name, 1880–2025
Oveida Overton
Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.
Who was ahead
Overton has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1884 to 2003. The lead has never changed hands.
The closest they came was 1927, when Oveida had 7 and Overton had 12.
Side by side
| Oveida | Overton | |
|---|---|---|
| Total US births | 7 | 544 |
| Most in one year | 7 | 29 |
| Babies in 2025 | under 5 | under 5 |
| Estimated living today | 0 | 120 |
| Median age today | 98 | 70 |
| Peak year | 1927 | 1918 |
| Best rank | 3,875th girls | 1,313th boys |
| Rank in 2025 | unranked | unranked |
| First recorded | 1927 | 1884 |
| Girls / boys | 7 / 0 | 0 / 544 |
A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.
Which name is older
Half of the Oveidas alive today are over 98; half the Overtons are over 70. That is 28 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.
Compare something else
Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Oveida and Overton.