Ople — unisex name

What the Data Says About Ople

The Social Security Administration has registered 284 babies named Ople between 1901 and 1944, spanning 44 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Ople currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 1944. The name reached its historical peak in 1920, when 18 babies received it in a single year. Ople is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 19 additional births since 1918.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Ople performed strongest in the 1920s, accumulating 114 births during that ten-year window. Across the 5 decades of recorded activity, Ople shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Tennessee, which accounts for 7 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Ople in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Ople 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 284 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.