Opie — #3156 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Opie

The Social Security Administration has registered 678 babies named Opie between 1904 and 2024, spanning 121 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Opie currently holds the #3156 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2022, when 50 babies received it in a single year. Opie is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 99 additional births since 1889.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Opie performed strongest in the 2020s, accumulating 214 births during that ten-year window. Across the 10 decades of recorded activity, Opie shows a stable profile with only moderate drift from its peak decade. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Arkansas, which accounts for 16 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by West Virginia and Tennessee. In total, SSA state-level files list Opie in 5 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Opie in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 678 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.