Meaning not yet researched.
Opie: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 29 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,348 in 1904.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,348 in 1904; #3,824 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Opie in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#3,824 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1904, at #1,348.
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Opie: US boys and girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 29 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,348 in 1904 · most boys in one year: 50 (2022).
In 2025, 29 US boys were named Opie, making it the 3,824th most common boys’ name of the year, down 623 places from #3,201 in 2024. That is 9 fewer than the 38 boys named Opie in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,348, reached in 1904. The most boys given the name in a single year was 50, in 2022. For comparison, it was #6,223 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Fewer than five US girls were named Opie in 2025, so it does not appear in that year’s SSA list for girls. Its best rank for girls was #1,432, reached in 1889. The most girls given the name in a single year was 15, in 1917. For comparison, it was unranked (under five girls) in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Opie in 57 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1889 with 5 babies. In all, 806 US babies have been given the name, 12% of them girls and 88% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 243 babies named Opie.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 354 US boys were named Opie; the busiest of those years was 2022, with 50. In 2025 that was about 1 in 58,899 of the boys 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 | — | — | 29 | #3,824 |
| 2024 | — | — | 38 | #3,201 |
| 2023 | — | — | 39 | #3,162 |
| 2022 | — | — | 50 | #2,668 |
| 2021 | — | — | 41 | #3,009 |
| 2020 | — | — | 46 | #2,719 |
| 2019 | — | — | 33 | #3,475 |
| 2018 | — | — | 28 | #3,860 |
| 2017 | — | — | 20 | #4,886 |
| 2016 | — | — | 30 | #3,659 |
| 2015 | — | — | 14 | #6,223 |
| 2014 | — | — | 15 | #5,922 |
| 2013 | — | — | 13 | #6,512 |
| 2012 | — | — | 6 | #11,873 |
| 1977 | — | — | 6 | #5,653 |
| 1976 | — | — | 5 | #6,230 |
| 1973 | — | — | 5 | #5,656 |
| 1970 | — | — | 5 | #5,241 |
| 1969 | — | — | 6 | #4,276 |
| 1963 | — | — | 8 | #3,252 |
| 1962 | — | — | 7 | #3,539 |
| 1961 | — | — | 9 | #3,042 |
| 1955 | — | — | 5 | #4,238 |
| 1951 | — | — | 7 | #3,274 |
| 1949 | — | — | 5 | #4,076 |
| 1947 | — | — | 6 | #3,645 |
| 1943 | — | — | 6 | #3,462 |
| 1941 | — | — | 7 | #3,064 |
| 1938 | — | — | 8 | #2,803 |
| 1935 | — | — | 6 | #3,548 |
| 1934 | — | — | 5 | #4,069 |
| 1933 | — | — | 5 | #4,021 |
| 1932 | — | — | 8 | #3,029 |
| 1931 | — | — | 5 | #4,179 |
| 1930 | — | — | 5 | #4,401 |
| 1929 | — | — | 9 | #2,912 |
| 1928 | 5 | #5,254 | 6 | #4,020 |
| 1927 | — | — | 5 | #4,639 |
| 1926 | — | — | 12 | #2,525 |
| 1925 | 5 | #5,588 | 10 | #2,885 |
| 1924 | 6 | #4,902 | 10 | #2,964 |
| 1923 | 5 | #5,520 | 10 | #2,892 |
| 1922 | 6 | #4,878 | 15 | #2,218 |
| 1921 | — | — | 7 | #3,782 |
| 1920 | — | — | 6 | #4,153 |
| 1919 | 8 | #3,720 | 6 | #4,049 |
| 1918 | — | — | 17 | #1,973 |
| 1917 | 15 | #2,287 | 16 | #1,960 |
| 1916 | 7 | #3,834 | 11 | #2,498 |
| 1915 | 8 | #3,357 | 7 | #3,303 |
| 1914 | 10 | #2,391 | 13 | #1,842 |
| 1912 | 7 | #2,570 | 5 | #2,804 |
| 1911 | — | — | 6 | #1,684 |
| 1906 | 5 | #2,154 | — | — |
| 1904 | — | — | 5 | #1,348 |
| 1903 | 7 | #1,543 | — | — |
| 1889 | 5 | #1,432 | — | — |
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).