Opal
74
Babies in 2024
+469%
10-year change
2024
Peak · 74
+14%
vs 2023
Trajectory · 1996→2024
Years with no bar had fewer than 3 babies with this name — ONS suppresses counts of 2 or fewer for privacy.
About the name Opal
Opal is a rising UK girl's name. Registrations in 2024 (74) are up 469% on a decade earlier — one of the steeper climbs in the ONS data for England & Wales.
Opal reached its peak in 2024, when 74 girls were registered in England & Wales — ranked #526 for UK girls that year. Today's count of 74 represents 100% of the peak.
Across 27 years of ONS data since 1996, a total of 440 girls have been officially registered with the name Opal in England & Wales. In the past decade alone (2014–2024), 335 girls were registered with the name, starting from 13 in 2014 and ending at 74 in 2024.