as a First Name
One of the rarer girls' names created in the late 19th century from vocabulary words for gemstones. This English word is ultimately derived (via Latin and Greek) from an Indian language (compare Sanskrit upala ‘precious stone’).
| 1,054th in the U.S. for 2011 |
Nicknames & variations
Quick facts
- Tens of Thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 25,677
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- 54,803
- if you include dead people (since the government started keeping track)
- West Virginia
- has the most people named Opal per capita
- 1911
- marked the height of its popularity
99.95%
0.05%
93%
55+
55+
5%
30-54
30-54
0.38%
13-29
13-29
1%
0-12
0-12
Top state populations
U.S. Distribution Map
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