Orah

#9,457 for girls in 2025, 10 births

Peak · girls
1882 · 7 births
Debut · girls
7 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
291
since 1882

Orah over time

girls

Rank among girls' names. Orah has never cracked the top 700 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201882peak #740, 1882girls
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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Yeargirls
rankbirths
2025#9,45710
2024#10,2719
2023#13,4626
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2021#8,97811
2020#12,1427
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2017#10,6899
2016#16,2155
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2008#15,4056
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1941#4,4205
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1930#4,5505
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1924#3,6658
1923#3,12510
1922#2,95811
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1920#3,09710
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1918#3,5128
1917#3,7137
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1914#3,6185
1913#3,1875
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1904#1,8775
1903#1,5926
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1900#1,5617
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1898#1,5026
1897#1,2637
1896#1,4166
1895#1,2028
1894#1,3536
1893#1,4375
1892#86112
1891#1,2136
1890#9409
1889#1,0257
1888#1,0367
1887#1,0366
1886#8977
1885#9216
1884#8517
1883#7547
1882#7407
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First appearance
1882

The first year at least five girls were named Orah! It came in at #740, and was given to 7 baby girls.


Quietest stretch: 1899, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.

Where Orah is popular in 1882

The SSA only publishes names by state from 1910 on.

See more about Orah
Momentum · girls
Rising
  • 814 spots since 2024 (#10,271 → #9,457)
  • 2,685 spots since 2020 (#12,142 → #9,457)
  • Biggest jump: 352 spots in 1892 (#1,213 → #861)
  • Biggest drop: 576 spots in 1893 (#861 → #1,437)
Rise & fade · girls
Peaked on debut
  • Debuted 1882
  • Peaked 1882 at #740 (7 births)
  • Births halved by 1899, 17 yrs later
Top of the charts · girls
Top 1,000 for 7 yrs
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: 7 yrs · run 1882–1886
Share of babies · girls
1 in 15,407
  • Highest: 1 in 15,407 girls born in 1882 were named Orah (0.01%)
  • Latest: 1 in 160,727 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
Era · girls
The 1890s
  • 22.3% of all girls named Orah (65) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1880s54#740 (1882)#908
1890s65#861 (1892)#1,243
1900s18#1,561 (1900)#1,677
1910s25#3,187 (1913)#3,508
1920s39#2,958 (1922)#3,211
1930s5#4,550 (1930)#4,550
1940s10#4,349 (1940)#4,385
1950s0——
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1990s5#13,147 (1991)#13,147
2000s13#13,704 (2009)#14,555
2010s14#10,689 (2017)#13,452
2020s43#8,978 (2021)#10,862

All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.

Orah in 1882

girls
#740
7 births · 1 in 15,407 girls

Top girls' names in 1882

  1. #1Mary8,148
  2. #2Anna3,143
  3. #3Emma2,303
  4. #4Elizabeth2,186
  5. #5Minnie2,004
  6. #6Margaret1,821
  7. #7Ida1,673
  8. #8Alice1,542
  9. #9Bertha1,508
  10. #10Annie1,492
  11. #740Orah7
More about 1882

girls

107,847 girls got a published name in 1882; 1 in 15,407 of them was named Orah, which outranked 28.0% of the 1,028 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 23.9% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Orah
  1. #678Vertie8
  2. #678Wilhelmine8
  3. #678Zoa8
  4. #740Orah7
  5. #740Agusta7
  6. #740Albina7
  7. #740Alicia7
  8. #813Albertina6
  9. #813Alda6
  10. #813Alwina6

Tied with 72 names at #740; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1881
Risers
  1. ↑ 380Clementine#740 → #360
  2. ↑ 337Lissie#830 → #493
  3. ↑ 323Lonnie#830 → #507
  4. ↑ 300Erna#830 → #530
  5. ↑ 300Hedwig#830 → #530
Fallers
  1. ↓ 405Leatha#503 → #908
  2. ↓ 369Grayce#539 → #908
  3. ↓ 369Maye#539 → #908
  4. ↓ 369Rella#539 → #908
  5. ↓ 326Honora#582 → #908

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 1882 →