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Opaline: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 11 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,727 in 1931.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,727 in 1931; #9,312 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Opaline in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#9,312 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1931, at #1,727.
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Opaline: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 11 girls in 2025. Peak: #1,727 in 1931 · most girls in one year: 21 (1931).
In 2025, 11 US girls were named Opaline, making it the 9,312th most common girls’ name of the year. Its best rank for girls was #1,727, reached in 1931. That year also had the most girls given the name: 21. For comparison, it was unranked (under five girls) in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Opaline in 25 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1916 with 10 babies. In all, 213 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 1930s, with 83 babies named Opaline.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 23 US girls were named Opaline; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 11. In 2025 that was about 1 in 146,115 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
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Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 11 | #9,312 | — | — |
| 2023 | 7 | #13,121 | — | — |
| 2022 | 5 | #17,148 | — | — |
| 1954 | 5 | #6,377 | — | — |
| 1943 | 7 | #4,097 | — | — |
| 1938 | 5 | #4,826 | — | — |
| 1936 | 6 | #4,043 | — | — |
| 1935 | 11 | #2,691 | — | — |
| 1934 | 10 | #2,889 | — | — |
| 1933 | 7 | #3,664 | — | — |
| 1932 | 15 | #2,212 | — | — |
| 1931 | 21 | #1,727 | — | — |
| 1930 | 8 | #3,579 | — | — |
| 1929 | 11 | #2,876 | — | — |
| 1928 | 8 | #3,676 | — | — |
| 1927 | 11 | #3,009 | — | — |
| 1926 | 11 | #3,005 | — | — |
| 1925 | 5 | #5,587 | — | — |
| 1924 | 6 | #4,900 | — | — |
| 1923 | 7 | #4,272 | — | — |
| 1922 | 7 | #4,339 | — | — |
| 1921 | 9 | #3,600 | — | — |
| 1919 | 5 | #5,379 | — | — |
| 1917 | 5 | #5,135 | — | — |
| 1916 | 10 | #2,981 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).