Given name
Opha
“one who loves and is loved”
Opha is a variant of Ofa. One interpretation is “one who loves and is loved.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
Opha is a variant of Ofa. One interpretation is “one who loves and is loved.”
Explained through its name family
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1887. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Opha through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 439
- 12 boys · 427 girls
- Most popular year
- 1917
- 17 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 5 in 1942. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 17 in 1917.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
The ring: nicknames and forms.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
People named Opha
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
Similar names
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