Opie
surname · Latin script
Meaning: from the medieval personal name Oppy or Ohby, pet-forms of names such as Osbert and Osbold
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈoʊˌpi/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Opie is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- AUAustralia≈1 in 45K(inferred from the name graph)
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 138K
- USUnited States1 in 345K
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.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 203 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 45K (inferred from the name graph)
964 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
Australia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
from the medieval personal name Oppy or Ohby, pet-forms of names such as Osbert and Osbold
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Often considered alongside
Names that people choosing a name often weigh against Opie, most often first. They share a style rather than an origin.
From the names suggested together in public name-advice forums, in English. A list of what people consider, not a measure of how common any name is.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Opie 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 964 | 1 in 345K | 964 | Opie | 203 |
| AU Australia | ≈570 est. | ≈1 in 45K | 1 | Opie | 99 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈480 est. | ≈1 in 138K | 830 | Opie | 107 |
| NG Nigeria | ≈360 est. | ≈1 in 588K | — | Opie | 10 |
| ZA South Africa | ≈190 est. | ≈1 in 296K | — | Opie | 18 |
| MY Malaysia | ≈140 est. | ≈1 in 235K | — | Opie | 9 |
| NZ New Zealand | ≈76 est. | ≈1 in 65K | — | Opie | 43 |
| GY Guyana | 4 | 1 in 188K | 4 | — | 1 |
964 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; SA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present); Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); 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)
Opie 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, A surname from Cornish.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In enm, opium
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)
- John Opieb. 1761GBBritish historical and portrait painter (1761-1807)
- Amelia Opieb. 1769GBEnglish writer, novelist, abolitionist (1769-1853)
- Juliet Opie Hopkinsb. 1818USCivil War nurse
- Eugene Lindsay Opieb. 1873USAmerican physician and pathologist (1873–1971)
- Iona Opieb. 1923GBEnglish scholar of folklore and children's culture
- Alan Opieb. 1945GBBritish opera singer
- Julian Opieb. 1958GBBritish artist (born 1958)
- Catherine Opieb. 1961USAmerican photographer (born 1961)
- Lisa Opieb. 1963GBGuernsey squash player
- Chris Opieb. 1987GBBritish cyclist
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)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 20 sources across 9 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 964 | #25,601 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 959 | #26,763 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 915 | #25,398 |
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 830 | #7,671 |
| GY Guyana | Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025 | 2025 | 4 | #621 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wikipedia surname 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 Opie mean, and where does it come from?
- from the medieval personal name Oppy or Ohby, pet-forms of names such as Osbert and Osbold Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- How do you pronounce Opie?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈoʊˌpi/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Opie have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 964 people named Opie, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled opie.
- How common is the name Opie?
- In the United States, the national register counted 964 people named Opie in 2010, about 1 in 345 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/opieThe 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, “Opie”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.