Opal
Recorded for both sexesSilent Generation2025 rank
#423
up +26 places
2025 births
740
up +44 births
All-time births
73,539
1% of them in 2025
More common than
99%
of all archived spellings recorded for girls, by lifetime births for that sex
- Peak year
- 1918
- 2,847 births
- Best rank
- #81
- in 1911
- First recorded
- 1880
- #912 that year
- Last recorded
- 2025
- still in the data
- Average birth year
- 1932
- weighted by recorded births
- Years recorded
- 146 of 146
- unbroken
Top five years
- 19182,847#94Peak
- 19212,713#103
- 19202,702#101
- 19192,652#98
- 19162,636#91
Rank over time
Inverted scale — nearer the top is more popular. Unrecorded years are left blank, not drawn as zero.
Best rank #81 in 1911 · peak births 2,847 in 1918
Boys and girls
Births per year for each sex, on one shared scale. The girls' series is dashed.
● 1% boys■ 99% girls
718 boys · 73,539 girls, all time
Births by decade
Where the name's whole run sits, with the best and worst rank it held in each decade
Trajectory by decade
Where Opal has ranked, decade by decade
The band spans each decade's best and worst rank; the line follows its best.