Ofelia

given name · Spanish · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Ofelia is a given name, most frequently recorded in Argentina. It appears chiefly in Spanish and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: a female given name, equivalent to English Ophelia.

rarermore common
  • MXMexico1 in 1.1K◐
  • ARArgentina1 in 2.3K
  • PHPhilippines1 in 2.7K

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈35K ●

across 10 countries

2 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
257 ●

837K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 5.9K ◐

Costa Rica

Spellings & scripts●

OfeliaLatin · Spanish●868K records
ΟφελιαGreek · Greek●0 records

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

a female given name, equivalent to English Ophelia

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 12 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Ofelia is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
AR Argentina#348298,842206K rec.—28Ofelia66
MX Mexico#178288,368246K rec.—1.2KOfelia152
PH Philippines#34362,37158K rec.—40KOfelia78
PE Peru#51857,57248K rec.——Ofelia48
VE Venezuela#46453,74220K rec.—6.4KOfelia33
US United States—23,712186K rec.1 in 14K24KOfelia257
CO Colombia#43312,6887.3K rec.—7Ofelia71
SV El Salvador#2648,8748.3K rec.——Ofelia19
GB United Kingdom—2,6893.7K rec.—listedOfelia42
BR Brazil—2,6605.4K rec.1 in 80K3.6KOfelia70
ES Spain—2,6453.3K rec.1 in 19K2.8KOfelia92
EC Ecuador#8102,642△141 rec.1 in 6.4K2.6KOfelia30

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • Spanish868K75%
  • English138K12%
  • Portuguese63K5%
  • 11K1%
  • Indonesian4.6K1%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Spanish867,68275%
English138,31212%
Portuguese62,8425%
10,7131%
Indonesian4,5711%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Ofelia is also recorded as 7 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate given name12K records spelled Ofelia3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Peru

    Also written Ofélia, Ofèlia

  • Indonesian given name4.9K records spelled Ofelia3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Philippines, United States, Indonesia, Peru

    Languages: Indonesian, Malay

    Also written Ofélia

  • Hebrew given name3.6K records spelled Ofelia4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Philippines, United States, Egypt, Saudi Arabia

    Languages: Hebrew, Arabic

    Also written Ofélia

  • Russian given name2.9K records spelled Ofelia56 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Russia, Poland, Ukraine, United States

    Languages: Russian, Polish, Ukrainian

    Also written Офелия, Офелія, Ofeliya, Ofeliia, Ophelia

  • Catalan given name2.7K records spelled Ofelia2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Spain

    Also written Ofèlia

  • Danish given name1.7K records spelled Ofelia7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Denmark, Norway, United States, Sweden

    Languages: Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Swedish

    Also written Ofélia

  • Hindi given name1.3K records spelled Ofelia8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Philippines, India, Spain

    Languages: Hindi, Sinhala, Urdu

    Also written Ofélia

45 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Ofelia is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Spanish, Probablemente del griego opheleia ‘utilidad, ayuda, socorro’

    as a nameDiccionario etimológico de nombres propios

  • In Swedish, Ofelia är främst känt som namn på en person i William Shakespeares drama Hamlet (skrivet ca 1600). Shakespeare hämtade namnet från ett italienskt verk av medeltidsskalden Jacopo Sannazzaro. Denne har troligen bildat Ofelia till det grekiska namnet Ófelos ’hjälp’.

    as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon

  • In English, Spanish: to help; helper

    as a nameBaby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…

  • In German, weibl. Vom., italienische und spa­ nische Form von

    as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen

  • Colei che viene in soccorso

    as a nameIl grande libro dei nomi per bebè. Significato, origini, curiosità. Oltre 7000 nomi per bambine e bambini Significato,…

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Over time●

050100150200190019502000154 · 1929

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Ofelia in SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present), United States, 1900–2025
Yearrecords
19008
190410
19056
190610
190713
19088
19095
191013
191114
191221
191310
191427
191521
191628
191730
191841
191938
192054
192162
192282
192389
192489
1925151
1926130
1927111
1928135
1929154
1930143
1931130
1932105
1933111
1934148
1935100
193690
193798
193885
193984
1940100
194188
1942104
194379
1944114
1945106
1946135
1947122
1948125
1949131
1950114
1951120
1952135
1953138
195498
1955113
195692
1957104
1958107
195988
196090
196172
196283
196371
196480
196579
196675
196758
196863
196969
197059
197161
197274
197361
197473
197580
197677
197763
197872
197964
198083
198188
198266
198363
198452
198567
198669
198758
198852
198963
199047
199173
199272
199366
199456
199557
199659
199747
199850
199949
200054
200152
200264
200348
200454
200556
200657
200769
200860
200950
201046
201149
201235
201346
201445
201558
201669
201779
201874
201978
202085
202193
202283
202368
2024105
202587

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 123 years between 1900–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

1850190019502000Ofelia de Aragón, b. 1888Ofelia Rodríguez Acosta, b. 1902Ofelia Guilmáin, b. 1921Lia Maivia, b. 1927Ana Ofelia Murguía, b. 1933Ofelia Montesco, b. 1936Ofelia Medina, b. 1950Ofelia Cano, b. 1959Ofelia Popii, b. 1978Ofelia Malinov, b. 1996

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence●

Attested in 68 sources across 35 countries.

Official registers attesting Ofelia
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
PH PhilippinesTop 500 First Names in the Philippines (PSA FOI response, tracking202240K#198
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex202024K#1,430
VE Venezuelaasosab — SAIME ID-card names (1896–1996)—6.4K#304
BR BrazilIBGE — Nomes (census name API)—3.6K#4,084
ES SpainINE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—2.8K#688
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)20222.7K—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—2.6K#4,232
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—2.6K#1,430
EC EcuadorINEC — civil registry names20242.6K#523
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—1.4K#1,373
MX MexicoRENAPO — name frequencies (eduardofv dataset)—1.2K#88
CR Costa RicaTSE — electoral roll (padrón) names—859#612

Reference works 4

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 730 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Ofelia?
We estimate roughly 35 thousand people bear Ofelia (counting its spellings and scripts) across 10 countries in our records.
In which country does Ofelia have the most bearers?
Ofelia is most frequently recorded in Argentina, where it is most often spelled ofelia.
How common is Ofelia compared with other names?
In Argentina, Ofelia is the 348th most common given name of 517,176 given names recorded there.
Is Ofelia a male or female name?
Ofelia is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
What does the name Ofelia mean?
Recorded meaning: a female given name, equivalent to English Ophelia
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Ofelia” — the 348th most common given name in Argentina. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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