Ofelia

Where Ofelia comes from

Ofelia hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1900
    First appearance
    #1,431 among girls, 8 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1934
    Peak, #533
    148 babies named Ofelia — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1950
    Ofelia Medina born
    Mexican actress
  4. 1961
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,305.
  5. 1996
    Ofelia Malinov born
    Italian volleyball player
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Ofelia Medina · Mexican actress, born 1950
  • Ofelia Malinov · Italian volleyball player, born 1996
  • Ofelia Hooper · Panamanian academic and poet, 1900–1981
  • Ofelia Rodríguez Acosta · Cuban activist, 1902–1975
  • Ofelia Guilmáin · Spanish-Mexican actress, 1921–2005

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.