Ophir
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Represents the expansion of the Semitic peoples after the Flood; symbolically, the name became an archetype for supreme wealth and purity of gold in biblical poetry
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ɒphɪɹ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Ophir is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Israel than in any other country.
- ILIsrael≈1 in 743as אופיר(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 733Kas Ofir
- GYGuyana1 in 750K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Ophir itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Israel (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 176 (measured from records)
- 1 in 750K (inferred from the name graph)
≈12,000 named אופיר, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Guyana
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled אופיר in IL Israel, ET Ethiopia, NZ New Zealand and Ofir in US United States, NL Netherlands.
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)
Represents the expansion of the Semitic peoples after the Flood; symbolically, the name became an archetype for supreme wealth and purity of gold in biblical poetry.
Sources 1
- Biblical Names Compiled Database
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Ophir 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IL Israel | #157 | ≈12,000 est. | ≈1 in 743 | 3.1K | אופיר | 128 |
| ET Ethiopia | — | ≈730 est. | ≈1 in 149K | — | אופיר | 3 |
| US United States | — | 454as Ofir | 1 in 733K | 323 | Ofir | 176 |
| PL Poland | — | 249as Ofir | 1 in 154K | 155 | — | 2 |
| BR Brazil | — | 164as Ofir | 1 in 1.3M | 192 | — | 2 |
| RO Romania | — | ≈65 est. | ≈1 in 327K | — | Ophir | 5 |
| NZ New Zealand | — | ≈11 est. | ≈1 in 435K | — | אופיר | 3 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 6 | 1 in 2.9M | 6 | Ofir | 11 |
| GY Guyana | — | 1 | 1 in 750K | 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: CBS Israel — Family names in Israel, 2017 ("שמות משפחה בישראל 2017"); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA); dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. 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)
Ophir is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, Biblical land rich in gold
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
Unknown
as a nameBiblical Names Compiled Database
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.
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 17 sources across 9 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 18 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 18 | #96,225 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 10 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 10 | #136,084 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 1
- 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 are other forms of the name Ophir?
- In the etymology graph, Ofir is a form of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Ophir?
- A machine transcription gives /ɒphɪɹ/ (IPA) for Hebrew.
- Is Ophir a male or female name?
- Ophir is a male 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 Ophir mean, and where does it come from?
- Represents the expansion of the Semitic peoples after the Flood; symbolically, the name became an archetype for supreme wealth and purity of gold in biblical poetry. Recorded by Biblical Names Compiled Database.
- In which country does Ophir have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 12 thousand people named אופיר in Israel, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Ophir most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Ophir is densest in Guyana — about 1 in 750 thousand people — even though Israel holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Ophir?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 6 people named Ophir, about 1 in 2.9 million residents.
- How common is Ophir compared with other names?
- In Israel, Ophir is the 157th most common given name of 107,303 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ophirThe 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, “Ophir” — the 157th most common given name in Israel. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.