girls:
23.3k births since 1880
#931 (84th percentile)
boys:
15 births since 1915
#4571 (0th percentile)
overall:
23.4k births since 1880
#1659 (79th percentile)
The name Ophelia is the #1,659 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 23,358 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 78.6% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 78.6% of all names). For girls, it ranks #931 (83.7% percentile) for all time with 23,343 births since 1880. For boys, it ranks #4,571 (0.3% percentile) for all time with 15 births since 1915.
Ophelia has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for girls and since 1915 for boys).
The name Ophelia has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.9% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Ophelia reached its peak popularity in 2023, achieving the 73.4% percentile (ranked #253) with 667 births per million. The name was most common in 2023, with 667 births per million (ranked 73.4% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2001, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Ophelia is at or near its peak popularity for girls, ranked #253 (73.4% percentile) with 667 births per million.
For boys, Ophelia reached its peak popularity in 1915, achieving the 0.0% percentile (ranked #503) with 6 births per million. The name was most common in 1915, with 6 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1927.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Ophelia".
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Our model has identified 4 different pronunciations for the name Ophelia. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 47.7% confident that Ophelia is pronounced as oh-FEEL-yuh, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is uh-FEEL-yuh, at 31.8% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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For any given spelling, confidence scores across all identified pronunciations sum to 100%. However, these scores don't account for the possibility of valid pronunciations that our model hasn't identified.
The raw pronunciations shown (like OW0 F IY1 L Y AH0) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.
Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.
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