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Ofelia

#2,148 in 2025Girls' name

Form of Ophelia

Ofelia has been given to 8,997 babies in the U.S. since 1900. In 2025 it ranked #2,148 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1929, with 154 recorded.

Babies named Ofelia, 2025

1 in 38,100

Ofelia over time, 1880–2025

GirlsBoys
05010015020018801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Ofelia: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Ophelia

Spanish

What Ofelia means

Ofelia is a form of Ophelia.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Ofelia → Ophelia. The family’s proposed meaning is “help, aid, succour”, recorded in English with the source elements ōphéleiă.

Origin, language, and formation

Ofelia is used in Spanish and Tagalog. Its origins include Spanish.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Ophelia.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Spanish, Ofelia is pronounced /oˈfelja/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 8,992 girls were recorded with the name Ofelia between 1900 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 154 in 1929; its best national rank was #533 in 1934.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #2,146 in 2020 to #2,148 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #2,993 in 2015 to #2,148 in 2025.

In the United States, 5 boys were recorded with the name Ofelia between 1937 and 1937. Its highest annual count was 5 in 1937; its best national rank was #3,883 in 1937.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Ofelia?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 38,100
87 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 18,500
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#2,148
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
26,414 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Ofelia sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 5001%

Put another way: gather 26,414 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Ofelia. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Ofelias were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Ofelia was born before 1958 — so the typical Ofelia is around 67 today.

Median birth year
1958
About 67 years old
Biggest decade
1950s
12.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
17.9%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
5,434
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1950s — 12.3% of all recorded uses (1,109).

Is Ofelia rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
−238
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−2
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
+845
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.50×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
56.5%
Peak was 1929 (154)
Years since peak
96
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
16.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#533
1934

Spellings of Ofelia

Ofelia is not the most common spelling — Amelia is, with 50.4% against Ofelia's 1.6%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Ofelia is used

Across 2016–2025, Ofelia was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 9,091 girls, against 1 in 16,003 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in 100,000).

111 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 9,091
  2. 2Texas1 in 14,286
  3. 3Arizona1 in 25,000
  4. 4Illinois1 in 25,000
  5. 5Washington1 in 25,000
  6. 6Colorado1 in 50,000
  7. 7Florida1 in 50,000
  8. 8New York1 in 100,000

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings.

Ofelia around the world

Where Ofelia ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    2002–2025
    #3,705
    in 2025
  • France
    1929–2025
    #4,707
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2007–2024
    #1,709
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    2004–2004
    #700
    in 2004

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Ofelia

People whose public names include Ofelia, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Ofelia in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Ofelia. Linked forms have their own page here.

OpheliaOphélie

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Ofelia by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#2,148
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 2
Best rank ever
#533
1934
Peak year
1929
154 that year
First recorded
1900
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
8,992
Count in 2025
87

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#3,883
1937
Peak year
1937
5 that year
First recorded
1937
Last recorded
1937
All-time count
5
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Ofelia

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

NoeliaAnaliaEmeliaOraliaAdeliaThaliaAmaliaDahliaGiuliaRosaliaKhaliaTahliaIdaliaAmiliaItaliaOdeliaKaliaDaliaLiliaLilliaMeliaAdaliaLeliaAzalia

Names with a curve like Ofelia

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Ofelia, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

ElidaSocorroJosefinaTobyLeonorErnestinaCruzEnedinaEstelaJonnieEloisaNada

Sibling names for Ofelia

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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