# Ofelia (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/ofelia/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | girls |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 8,997 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 5 / 8,992 (100% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 125, 1996 to 2025 |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 49 | 3,341 |
| 2012 | 35 | 4,270 |
| 2013 | 46 | 3,448 |
| 2014 | 45 | 3,527 |
| 2015 | 58 | 2,993 |
| 2016 | 69 | 2,586 |
| 2017 | 79 | 2,335 |
| 2018 | 74 | 2,430 |
| 2019 | 78 | 2,322 |
| 2020 | 85 | 2,146 |
| 2021 | 93 | 2,067 |
| 2022 | 83 | 2,271 |
| 2023 | 68 | 2,607 |
| 2024 | 105 | 1,910 |
| 2025 | 87 | 2,148 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1937 | 5 | 3,885 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 7 | 3,185 |
| 2012 | 6 | 3,681 |
| 2013 | 7 | 3,160 |
| 2014 | 4 | 4,684 |
| 2015 | 8 | 2,945 |
| 2016 | 4 | 4,763 |
| 2017 | 8 | 2,925 |
| 2018 | 5 | 3,985 |
| 2019 | 8 | 2,869 |
| 2020 | 9 | 2,615 |
| 2021 | 11 | 2,341 |
| 2022 | 8 | 2,888 |
| 2023 | 5 | 4,056 |
| 2024 | 4 | 4,843 |
| 2025 | 6 | 3,705 |

## People named Ofelia

- Ofelia Rodríguez Acosta, Cuban activist
- Ofelia Uribe, Colombian suffragist (1900-1988)
- Ofelia Zepeda, American linguist
- Flora Ofelia, Danish singer and actress

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.