# Opal (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/opal/  
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 | 74,257 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 718 / 73,539 (99% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 503, 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 | 93 | 2,084 |
| 2012 | 105 | 1,909 |
| 2013 | 125 | 1,687 |
| 2014 | 183 | 1,304 |
| 2015 | 233 | 1,110 |
| 2016 | 261 | 1,016 |
| 2017 | 321 | 849 |
| 2018 | 337 | 809 |
| 2019 | 427 | 683 |
| 2020 | 445 | 649 |
| 2021 | 562 | 545 |
| 2022 | 595 | 525 |
| 2023 | 631 | 486 |
| 2024 | 696 | 449 |
| 2025 | 740 | 423 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1927 | 21 | 1,734 |
| 1928 | 27 | 1,440 |
| 1929 | 18 | 1,843 |
| 1930 | 13 | 2,265 |
| 1931 | 17 | 1,817 |
| 1932 | 17 | 1,833 |
| 1933 | 5 | 4,020 |
| 1934 | 14 | 1,998 |
| 1935 | 10 | 2,494 |
| 1936 | 13 | 2,037 |
| 1937 | 10 | 2,434 |
| 1938 | 12 | 2,152 |
| 1939 | 8 | 2,759 |
| 1942 | 6 | 3,464 |
| 1944 | 5 | 3,782 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 10 | 2,432 |
| 2012 | 11 | 2,338 |
| 2013 | 6 | 3,536 |
| 2014 | 13 | 2,058 |
| 2015 | 7 | 3,252 |
| 2016 | 12 | 2,233 |
| 2017 | 14 | 1,995 |
| 2018 | 14 | 1,977 |
| 2019 | 21 | 1,439 |
| 2020 | 27 | 1,200 |
| 2021 | 31 | 1,102 |
| 2022 | 57 | 655 |
| 2023 | 65 | 590 |
| 2024 | 74 | 526 |
| 2025 | 63 | 622 |

## People named Opal

- Janet Asimov, author, psychiatrist, psychoanalyst (1926–2019)
- Ayọ Tometi, American human rights activist

## 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.