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Opal name image The table below indicates the number of times the name Opal has been given to baby boys in recent years.  The last 125 years refers to 1880 through 2004; last year refers to 2004.  The rank and count values are based on U.S. Social Security Administration counts for the one thousand most popular names given to baby boys in each of these years. 

Cumulative Usage Chart for the Name Opal
Use of the Name Opal for Boys During the Last ...
125 Years50 Years25 Years10 Years5 Years2 Years1 Year
81000000
The table below indicates the number of times the name Opal has been given to baby boys and baby girls each year, from 1880 through 2004.  Opal last appeared in the top thousand boy or girl names during 1960, the last year shown on the table.  A blank entry indicates that the name did not rank among the top one thousand names given to boys or girls, respectively, during the specified year.

Yearly Usage Chart for the Name Opal
 Used as a Boy NameUsed as a Girl Name
YearRankCountRankCount
1880  9125
1881  46714
1882  52513
1883  49616
1884  38228
1885  37131
1886  41128
1887  34240
1888  33452
1889  29767
1890  28180
1891  28678
1892  256107
1893  236123
1894  209164
1895  216158
18969557205186
1897  182230
1898  178262
1899  162278
1900  140432
19019197126406
19029108117498
1903  106543
1904  100621
1905  99702
1906904995718
19078481187890
19089291084954
1909  821,025
191081015871,050
191191214811,187
1912  851,460
1913  861,623
1914  891,886
1915  902,481
1916  912,631
1917  952,544
1918  942,847
1919  982,654
1920  1012,697
1921  1032,713
1922  1082,562
1923  1142,360
1924  1212,284
1925  1292,110
1926  1302,023
1927  1411,741
1928  1461,588
1929  1501,449
1930  1561,328
1931  1701,090
1932  1801,046
1933  182932
1934  199889
1935  220778
1936  231709
1937  254618
1938  262581
1939  263553
1940  273522
1941  315434
1942  326450
1943  342431
1944  344397
1945  383337
1946  424330
1947  430357
1948  507260
1949  497266
1950  591205
1951  584216
1952  622201
1953  643194
1954  708171
1955  691185
1956  810151
1957  814155
1958  973114
1959  978117
1960  920134
Totals:  81 64,790

During the last 125 years, parents have used Opal as a boy's name about 0% of the time and more frequently (about 99% of the time) as a girl's name.  Cumulative counts and total counts shown on the above tables are significantly lower than actual counts because the name Opal appears in the top 1,000 boy names only 8 times during the last 125 years.


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