girls:
8.8k births since 1900
#1733 (70th percentile)
boys:
5 births since 1937
#4581 (0th percentile)
overall:
8.8k births since 1900
#2879 (63rd percentile)
The name Ofelia is the #2,879 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 8,804 recorded births since 1900. This represents the 62.8% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 62.8% of all names). For girls, it ranks #1,733 (69.7% percentile) for all time with 8,799 births since 1900. For boys, it ranks #4,581 (0.0% percentile) for all time with 5 births since 1937.
Ofelia first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1900 (1900 for girls and 1937 for boys). Birth data for Ofelia is available in 121 out of the 124 years between 1900 and 2023 (121 years for girls and 1 years for boys). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Ofelia has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.9% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Ofelia reached its peak popularity in 1929, achieving the 24.5% percentile (ranked #447) with 133 births per million. The name was most common in 1934, with 137 births per million (ranked 24.0% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2014, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Ofelia ranks #884 for girls (6.7% percentile) with 39 births per million, which is 28.4% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Ofelia reached its peak popularity in 1937, achieving the 0.0% percentile (ranked #524) with 5 births per million. The name was most common in 1937, with 5 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1937.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Ofelia".
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Our model has identified 5 different pronunciations for the name Ofelia. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 43.9% confident that Ofelia is pronounced as oh-FEEL-yuh, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is oh-FEHL-yuh, at 17.1% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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