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How popular is “Opal” in the USA?

Number of people named “Opal” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Opal” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Opal” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Opal” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Opal” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Opal” by birth year

This chart shows how “Opal” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year Count Proportion Females Males Bias toward female
1880 5 0.000024816 5 100%
1881 14 0.000072656 14 100%
1882 13 0.000058682 13 100%
1883 16 0.000073751 16 100%
1884 28 0.000115008 28 100%
1885 31 0.000128709 31 100%
1886 28 0.000109668 28 100%
1887 40 0.000161687 40 100%
1888 52 0.000173638 52 100%
1889 67 0.000231877 67 100%
1890 80 0.000265427 80 100%
1891 78 0.000272087 78 100%
1892 107 0.000320001 107 100%
1893 123 0.000378202 123 100%
1894 164 0.000484219 164 100%
1895 158 0.000450117 158 100%
1896 193 0.000539884 186 7 93%
1897 235 0.000677317 230 5 96%
1898 262 0.000686844 262 100%
1899 278 0.000819493 278 100%
1900 432 0.00095945 432 100%
1901 413 0.001194291 406 7 97%
1902 506 0.001308396 498 8 97%
1903 548 0.001437566 542 6 98%
1904 627 0.001553961 621 6 98%
1905 702 0.001655965 702 100%
1906 727 0.00169681 718 9 98%
1907 900 0.001933862 889 11 98%
1908 965 0.001974833 955 10 98%
1909 1036 0.002026509 1028 8 98%
1910 1066 0.001804605 1051 15 97%
1911 1205 0.001870311 1190 15 98%
1912 1485 0.001502942 1465 20 97%
1913 1651 0.001451926 1629 22 97%
1914 1918 0.001354191 1893 25 97%
1915 2510 0.001369769 2482 28 98%
1916 2672 0.001381295 2636 36 97%
1917 2572 0.001281674 2541 31 98%
1918 2886 0.001329273 2847 39 97%
1919 2677 0.001268573 2652 25 98%
1920 2733 0.00120788 2702 31 98%
1921 2743 0.001174981 2713 30 98%
1922 2593 0.001132732 2562 31 98%
1923 2391 0.001038445 2365 26 98%
1924 2309 0.000969512 2284 25 98%
1925 2131 0.000913298 2108 23 98%
1926 2050 0.000892894 2027 23 98%
1927 1759 0.0007584 1738 21 98%
1928 1618 0.000715632 1591 27 97%
1929 1470 0.000670571 1452 18 98%
1930 1340 0.000602711 1327 13 98%
1931 1105 0.000525093 1088 17 97%
1932 1069 0.000506325 1052 17 97%
1933 936 0.000468129 931 5 99%
1934 906 0.000436245 892 14 97%
1935 787 0.000376573 777 10 97%
1936 719 0.000346076 706 13 96%
1937 630 0.000295682 620 10 97%
1938 591 0.00026711 579 12 96%
1939 565 0.000256417 557 8 97%
1940 521 0.000226258 521 100%
1941 434 0.00017813 434 100%
1942 453 0.000165824 447 6 97%
1943 436 0.00015447 436 100%
1944 405 0.000150553 400 5 98%
1945 337 0.00012703 337 100%
1946 330 0.000103276 330 100%
1947 356 0.000098825 356 100%
1948 260 0.000075307 260 100%
1949 271 0.000077767 271 100%
1950 207 0.000059086 207 100%
1951 217 0.000058908 217 100%
1952 201 0.000052923 201 100%
1953 193 0.000050082 193 100%
1954 170 0.000042706 170 100%
1955 186 0.000046325 186 100%
1956 152 0.000036866 152 100%
1957 155 0.000036886 155 100%
1958 113 0.000027335 113 100%
1959 118 0.000028379 118 100%
1960 133 0.000032019 133 100%
1961 102 0.000024624 102 100%
1962 99 0.000024533 99 100%
1963 97 0.000024506 97 100%
1964 88 0.000022636 88 100%
1965 87 0.000023997 87 100%
1966 72 0.000020716 72 100%
1967 74 0.000021797 74 100%
1968 74 0.000021904 74 100%
1969 71 0.00002043 71 100%
1970 65 0.000018023 65 100%
1971 80 0.000023308 80 100%
1972 64 0.000020363 64 100%
1973 63 0.000020882 63 100%
1974 73 0.000024013 73 100%
1975 65 0.000021527 65 100%
1976 82 0.000027024 82 100%
1977 64 0.000020148 64 100%
1978 70 0.000022055 70 100%
1979 78 0.000023445 78 100%
1980 64 0.00001858 64 100%
1981 63 0.000018211 63 100%
1982 56 0.000015964 56 100%
1983 52 0.000015014 52 100%
1984 49 0.000014045 49 100%
1985 49 0.000013729 49 100%
1986 55 0.000015462 55 100%
1987 53 0.000014699 53 100%
1988 49 0.000013261 49 100%
1989 37 0.000009624 37 100%
1990 36 0.000009108 36 100%
1991 31 0.000007958 31 100%
1992 29 0.00000755 29 100%
1993 34 0.000009018 34 100%
1994 29 0.000007801 29 100%
1995 20 0.000005461 20 100%
1996 27 0.000007403 27 100%
1997 35 0.000009653 35 100%
1998 39 0.000010603 39 100%
1999 24 0.000006497 24 100%
2000 32 0.000008466 32 100%
2001 36 0.000009617 36 100%
2002 38 0.000010165 38 100%
2003 39 0.000010257 39 100%
2004 60 0.000015703 60 100%
2005 42 0.000010924 42 100%
2006 79 0.000019969 79 100%
2007 69 0.00001726 69 100%
2008 87 0.000022134 87 100%
2009 77 0.000020156 77 100%
2010 82 0.000022188 82 100%
2011 93 0.000025425 93 100%
2012 105 0.000028709 105 100%
2013 125 0.000034287 125 100%
2014 183 0.000049374 183 100%
2015 233 0.000062957 233 100%
2016 261 0.000071142 261 100%
2017 321 0.00008976 321 100%
2018 337 0.00009585 337 100%
2019 427 0.000123022 427 100%
2020 445 0.000133211 445 100%
2021 561 0.000165587 561 100%
2022 595 0.000175872 595 100%
2023 629 0.000189962 629 100%
2024 694 0.000208502 694 100%

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