In 2025, 87 US girls were named Ofelia, making it the 2,148th most common girls’ name of the year, down 238 places from #1,910 in 2024. That is 18 fewer than the 105 girls named Ofelia in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #533, reached in 1934. The most girls given the name in a single year was 154, in 1929. For comparison, it was #2,993 in 2015 and #820 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Ofelia in 123 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1900 with 8 babies. In all, 8,997 US babies have been given the name, 99.9% of them girls and 0.1% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1950s, with 1,109 babies named Ofelia.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 821 US girls were named Ofelia; the busiest of those years was 2024, with 105. In 2025 that was about 1 in 18,474 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Ofelia ranked highest in California in 2025, at #1,396 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Ophelia (25,785 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Ofilia are summarised on this page.
Meaning
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Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Italian and Polish. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.