Ofelia
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in Spanish: a female given name, equivalent to English Ophelia
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ofelja/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Ofelia is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Philippines than in any other country.
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 1.7K(inferred from the name graph)
- NINicaragua≈1 in 2.4K
- ARArgentina≈1 in 2.5K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Philippines (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 284 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.7K (inferred from the name graph)
≈65,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Philippines, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
a female given name, equivalent to English Ophelia
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
How Ofelia is read(measured from records)
Ofelia is one spelling over 2 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Spanish77%
a female given name, equivalent to English Ophelia
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Probablemente del griego opheleia ‘utilidad, ayuda, socorro’
as a nameDiccionario etimológico de nombres propios
- English14%
Spanish: to help; helper
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The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Ofelia counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PH Philippines | #357 | ≈65,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.7K | — | Ofelia | 81 |
| US United States | — | 23,765 | 1 in 14K | 24K | Ofelia | 284 |
| AR Argentina | #313 | ≈18,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.5K | 28 | Ofelia | 65 |
| CO Colombia | #461 | ≈14,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.6K | 7 | Ofelia | 72 |
| PE Peru | #468 | ≈11,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.9K | — | Ofelia | 54 |
| NI Nicaragua | #166 | ≈2,500 est. | ≈1 in 2.4K | — | Ofelia | 13 |
| UY Uruguay | — | 1,175 | 1 in 2.9K | 1.2K | — | 29 |
| TT Trinidad & Tobago | #317 | ≈640 est. | ≈1 in 1.9K | — | Ofelia | 1 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; the co-datosgov-candidates register; INE Uruguay — Nombres más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Ofelia is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
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 German, weibl. Vom., italienische und spa nische Form von
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
Colei che viene in soccorso
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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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Ofelia de Aragónb. 1888ESSpanish singer
- Ofelia Rodríguez Acostab. 1902CUCuban activist
- Ofelia Guilmáinb. 1921MXSpanish-Mexican actress (1921–2005)
- Lia Maiviab. 1927USnot in their usual nameSamoan wrestling promoter
- Ana Ofelia Murguíab. 1933MXMexican actress (1933–2023)
- Ofelia Montescob. 1936PEPeruvian-Mexican actress (1936–1983)
- Ofelia Medinab. 1950MXMexican actress (born 1950)
- Ofelia Canob. 1959MXMexican actress (born 1959)
- Ofelia Popiib. 1978RORomanian actress
- Ofelia Malinovb. 1996ITItalian volleyball player
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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 69 sources across 35 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 24K | #1,430 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Nombres más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 1.2K | — |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Nombres más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 1.2K | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 87 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 53 | #1,430 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present) | 2024 | 20 | #1,584 |
| CO Colombia | Colombia — Función Pública SIGEP II public-servant name corpus (datos.gov.co) | — | 7 | #114 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Nombres más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 7 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1937 | 5 | — |
| AR Argentina | datos.gob.ar — nombres.datos.gob.ar per-name lookup (1922–2015) | 2015 | 3 | — |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — births 1922–2015 (Kaggle mirror) | 2015 | 3 | — |
| UY Uruguay | Montevideo Open Data — Nombres por año y sexo (1940–2012) | 2011 | 1 | — |
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 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Ofelia mean, and where does it come from?
- a female given name, equivalent to English Ophelia Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Ofelia?
- A machine transcription gives /ofelja/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- 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.
- In which country does Ofelia have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 65 thousand people named Ofelia in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ofelia.
- What are other forms of the name Ofelia?
- In the etymology graph, Ophelia and Ophélie are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How common is the name Ofelia?
- In the United States, the national register counted 23,765 people named Ofelia in 2020, about 1 in 14 thousand residents.
- How common is Ofelia compared with other names?
- In the Philippines, Ofelia is the 357th most common given name of 486,299 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Ofelia?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ofeliaThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
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 357th most common given name in Philippines. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.