Opal was the 188th most common given name among people in the file born in 1903 — 1,535 carried it. Across all birth years, 62,889 people in the file carry the name; the largest birth cohort of Opals was 1911.
Living to 78
Opal lived to 78. Among the 1,552,167 people in the file born in 1903, half lived past 80 and one in four reached 87; the longest-lived made it to 108. Only deaths reported to Social Security between 1936 and 2011 appear in the file, so members of this cohort who died young are not counted — these are the lifespans of its survivors.