Girl · #423 in 2025

Opal

Opal: popularity and trends since 1880

Rank
#423
Born 2025
740
Peak year
1909

Popularity, 1880–2025

per 100,000 girls born

Opal per 100,000 girls born, by year. Peak: 1909. Gaps are years with fewer than five births, which SSA does not publish. Source: SSA, 1880–2025.

Recent trend

Opal has been rising: its share of girls born has grown over the last 10 years. It now stands at 16% of its 1909 peak.

Sounds good with

Names of the other sex that are about as common right now, so two siblings' names do not sound a generation apart.