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Baby name
Ophelia
Girl
Origin of the name
Ophelia is the name of the heroine of Shakespeare's Hamlet. It is linked to the Greek ōpheleia, “help.”
Comeback name
25,770births since 1880
2020sgeneration
No. 259rank at its peak, in 2024
Where babies named Ophelia are born
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The darker the blue, the more common Ophelia is in the state, compared with its births. White: no births published that year.
Where it is most popular
Compared with the national average, Ophelia is most common in Mississippi (3.2 times), Arkansas (2.9) and South Carolina (2.7), taking into account all births in each state since 1910.
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