girls:
99 births since 1889
#5617 (2nd percentile)
boys:
639 births since 1904
#3947 (14th percentile)
overall:
738 births since 1889
#7001 (10th percentile)
The name Opie is the #7,001 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 738 recorded births since 1889. This represents the 9.5% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 9.5% of all names). For boys, it ranks #3,947 (13.9% percentile) for all time with 639 births since 1904. For girls, it ranks #5,617 (1.7% percentile) for all time with 99 births since 1889.
Opie first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1889 (1889 for girls and 1904 for boys). Birth data for Opie is available in 55 out of the 135 years between 1889 and 2023 (52 years for boys and 14 years for girls). 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 Opie has been given predominantly to boys, with 86.6% of all recorded births being male. In 2023, 100.0% of babies named Opie were boys. Interestingly, until around 1911, the name was more popular for girls (77.3% girls from 1889 to 1910), but since then it has been more commonly used for boys (88.5% boys from 1911 to 2023).
For boys, Opie reached its peak popularity in 2022, achieving the 4.8% percentile (ranked #880) with 26 births per million. The name was most common in 1904, with 36 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2012, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Opie ranks #877 for boys (3.7% percentile) with 21 births per million, which is 59.0% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Opie reached its peak popularity in 1917, achieving the 1.7% percentile (ranked #567) with 13 births per million. The name was most common in 1889, with 26 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1928.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Opie".
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