Girls' name · peaked in 2024

Ophelia name popularity since 1925

18,939 babies born in the US from 1925 to 2025 were named Ophelia. Half of them were born in 2016 or earlier, so the typical Ophelia is about 10 years old in 2026. Ophelia peaked in 2024 as the #259 name for girls, and it ranked #264 in 2025.

US babies since 1925: 18,939; Named Ophelia, 1925–2025
Peak year: 2024; #259 for girls that year
Typical age: About 10; Median birth year 2016
In 2025: #264; for girls in 2025 (1,183 babies)
Girls / boys: 100.0% girls; 18,934 girls · 5 boys
Most popular in: Mississippi; 2.54× its national share

Peak year is the year Ophelia made up the largest share of US girls, in records going back to 1880. Typical age is based on births from 1925 on, not on who is living today.

Ophelia births per year, 1925–2025

2024 was the biggest year for Ophelia both by count and as a share of all babies.

Steepest fall: Between 1950 and 1955, Ophelia's share of baby girls fell by 43%, from 1 in 9,960 to 1 in 17,600.
Fastest rise: Between 2012 and 2017, it became 5.6× more common, from 1 in 12,700 baby girls to 1 in 2,260.

Shaded on the chart. Both compare Ophelia's share of all US girls five years apart, counting only years with at least 100 babies named Ophelia.

Decade by decade

Babies named Ophelia in each decade, and its rank among girls' names in the middle year of the decade (1935, 1945 … 2025).

Decade	Girls	Boys	Rank
1925–29	1,527	5	–
1930s	1,948	0	#468
1940s	1,392	0	#685
1950s	1,388	0	#935
1960s	720	0	#1,343
1970s	397	0	#2,223
1980s	295	0	#2,738
1990s	252	0	#4,641
2000s	474	0	#3,488
2010s	3,981	0	#980
2020–25	6,560	0	#264

Ranks count every name given to at least 5 girls that year, so they can go past 1,000.

Generation fingerprint

53.8% of babies named Ophelia from 1925 to 2025 were born in the Gen Alpha years (2013–2025). The full split by generation:

Where Ophelia is most popular

The index compares Ophelia's share of babies in each state with its share nationwide, 1925–2025 (1.50× = 50% more common). States with at least 300 babies named Ophelia.

State	Index	Babies
Mississippi	2.54×	492
South Carolina	2.46×	550
Arkansas	2.33×	382
Louisiana	2.09×	598
Alabama	2.03×	572

Names with a similar story

Of the other 1999 names on this site, these six had the share of babies closest in shape to Ophelia's from 1925 to 2025, however common each one got. Each line is scaled to its own high; the dashed line is Ophelia.

Names from the same era

Other common names that peaked within two years of Ophelia (2024).

Source: U.S. Social Security Administration national and state baby-name data, which covers names given to at least 5 babies of one sex in a year. About the data