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Ophir

Boys' name

From Hebrew אוֹפִיר; literal meaning unconfirmed

Ophir has been given to 16 babies in the U.S. since 1978. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 2007, with 6 recorded.

Babies named Ophir, 2007

1 in 666,000

Ophir over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Ophir: meaning, origin, and history

From Hebrew אוֹפִיר; literal meaning unconfirmed

Hebrew

What Ophir means

Ophir is a given name.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

From Hebrew אוֹפִיר. Mentioned as a place in the Bible; modern scholars have been unable to determine where it was located.

Excerpt from Wiktionary: Ophir (English) · CC BY-SA 4.0

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Origin, language, and formation

Ophir is used in English. Its origins include Hebrew.

Ophir comes through Hebrew אוֹפִיר.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 16 boys were recorded with the name Ophir between 1978 and 2007. Its highest annual count was 6 in 2007; its best national rank was #6,500 in 1978.

How common is Ophir?

Ophir had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2007, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2007
1 in 666,000
6 of 3,997,748 births
Among boys only
1 in 346,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2007
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
461,839 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Ophir sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2007 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 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 461,839 children born in 2007 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Ophir. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Ophirs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Ophir was born before 1998 — so the typical Ophir is around 27 today.

Median birth year
1998
About 27 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
37.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
68.8%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
16
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 37.5% of all recorded uses (6).

Is Ophir 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
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 2007 (6)
Years since peak
18
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Not enough data
Too few years
Best rank ever
#6,500
1978

Spellings of Ophir

Ophir is not the most common spelling — Phil is, with 42.3% against Ophir's 0.03%.

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.

Ophir around the world

Where Ophir 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
    2021–2021
    #5,581
    in 2021

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0.

Ophir by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#6,500
1978
Peak year
2007
6 that year
First recorded
1978
Last recorded
2007
All-time count
16
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Ophir

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

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Sibling names for Ophir

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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