Girls' name · since 1909
Opel
Opel has 277 recorded births since 1909 in federal Social Security data, most heavily in 1924 -- full year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state rankings follow.
- #16,605 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- 277
- born since 1909
- 1920s
- peak decade
Opel is not among the current top-ranked girls names; 277 have been recorded since 1909.
Opel has 277 recorded births among girls since 1909, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, though it falls outside today's most-used girls names, busiest in the 1920s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 1909 to 1977.
- #16,605 of 72,339 all-time among girls
- 277 born since 1909
- 1920s peak decade
Data updated Aug 2026
The verdict
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Opel ranks #16,605 of 72,339 girls' names by all-time recorded births (highest first). 277 born since 1909, peaking in the 1920s.
- #16,605 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- 277
- born since 1909
- 1920s
- peak decade
Opel's 277 recorded births place it above 77.02% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
Opel's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Splitting Opel's full recorded timeline at 1925, 46% of its total births fall in the more recent half of the record versus 54% in the earlier half -- a fairly even split across the full record. Its quietest year on record was 1911, with just 5 recorded births -- worth weighing against the 1924 peak of 15 to see the full range of the name's swing in popularity.
Opel popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1909–1977
- Peak year (1924)
- 15
- Annual births at peak, across 69 years of records
Opel by decade
1920s is the heaviest window (109 births, 39% of the file).
1920s was Opel's strongest decade.
109 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 39% of all-time use.
Opel births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 1900s 6
1900s
6 births
- 1910s
1910s
80 births
- 1920s
1920s
109 births
- 1930s
1930s
64 births
- 1940s 11
1940s
11 births
- 1970s 7
1970s
7 births
What this shows Peak: 1920s at 109 births (39% of all-time use).
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- Opel's decade-level peak was the 1920s (109 total births); usage has since declined to 7 in the 1970s -- if you're weighing a "classic revival" angle, the trend line argues against it.
Figures reflect SSA-reported births only; see the methodology above for the privacy-suppression floor.
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Two nationwide peer axes for Opel: closest SSA peak year, and closest first→latest record span. Distinct from the spelling and current-rank neighborhoods above.
Similar peak year (~1924)
Similar record span (~68 yrs)
Peak year is the single SSA year with the most births for that name; record span is first-to-latest year in the national files, not a recommendation or shared origin claim.
Data Sources
Data as of August 2026. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
According to the Social Security Administration, this profile draws directly from the agency's public-use baby-name files (updated June 2026). See our methodology for the full extraction, aggregation, and privacy-suppression rules.
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data, 1909–1977 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
Name Almanac is rendered directly from the Social Security Administration's public baby-name files, no number is typed in by an editor. This profile for Opel draws directly on SSA national and state-level files, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of August 2026.