Girl
Opal
Rode the same late-1800s gemstone-name trend as Ruby and Pearl, then all but disappeared for most of the 20th century. It had its heyday in the 1920s and has mostly fallen out of use since. Today, it is comfortably in the mainstream in the registry.
EnglishEnglish gemstone name
SanskritFrom Sanskrit "upala" – "precious stone"
Births by decade
1900s
6,856
1910s
20,642
1920s
21,797
1930s
8,648
1940s
3,804
1950s
1,710
1960s
897
1970s
704
1980s
526
1990s
304
2000s
559
2010s
1,396
Peaked in the 1920s · 67,843 total U.S. births since 1900