Orian
- #14,942 for girls in 2025, 5 births
- #5,861 for boys in 2025, 15 births
- Given to boys 88.8% of the time
Showing
- Peak · boys
- 1912 · 6 births
- Debut · boys
- 6 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 725since 1912
Orian over time
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Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #14,942 | 5 | #5,861 | 15 |
| 2024 | — | #4,890 | 20 | |
| 2023 | — | #8,255 | 9 | |
| 2022 | #9,056 | 11 | #6,147 | 14 |
| 2021 | — | #6,335 | 13 | |
| 2020 | — | #5,041 | 18 | |
| 2019 | — | #4,480 | 22 | |
| 2018 | #13,793 | 6 | #3,373 | 33 |
| 2017 | — | #3,993 | 26 | |
| 2016 | — | #5,124 | 18 | |
| 2015 | — | #5,058 | 18 | |
| 2014 | — | #6,632 | 12 | |
| 2013 | #16,547 | 5 | #5,404 | 16 |
| 2012 | — | #5,482 | 16 | |
| 2011 | — | #5,200 | 17 | |
| 2010 | #11,246 | 9 | #6,359 | 13 |
| 2009 | — | #4,278 | 23 | |
| 2008 | #15,405 | 6 | #4,540 | 21 |
| 2007 | — | #5,901 | 14 | |
| 2006 | #15,152 | 6 | #3,888 | 25 |
| 2005 | #10,128 | 10 | #4,631 | 18 |
| 2004 | — | #5,813 | 13 | |
| 2003 | #15,784 | 5 | #6,258 | 11 |
| 2002 | #15,432 | 5 | #5,395 | 13 |
| 2001 | — | #9,243 | 6 | |
| 2000 | #15,031 | 5 | #4,389 | 17 |
| 1999 | #11,385 | 7 | #4,537 | 15 |
| 1998 | — | #4,413 | 15 | |
| 1997 | — | #5,642 | 10 | |
| 1996 | — | #7,971 | 6 | |
| 1995 | — | — | ||
| 1994 | — | #6,372 | 8 | |
| 1993 | — | #7,638 | 6 | |
| 1992 | — | #6,128 | 8 | |
| 1991 | — | — | ||
| 1990 | — | #8,117 | 5 | |
| 1989 | — | — | ||
| 1988 | — | #6,426 | 6 | |
| 1987 | — | #6,951 | 5 | |
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| 1984 | — | #5,561 | 6 | |
| 1983 | — | #6,238 | 5 | |
| 1982 | — | #4,593 | 8 | |
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| 1980 | — | #3,838 | 10 | |
| 1979 | — | #3,569 | 11 | |
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| 1974 | — | #4,634 | 6 | |
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| 1970 | — | #4,230 | 6 | |
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| 1946 | — | #2,690 | 8 | |
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| 1940 | — | #3,459 | 5 | |
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| 1938 | — | #3,534 | 5 | |
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| 1936 | — | #2,854 | 7 | |
| 1935 | — | #2,951 | 7 | |
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| 1931 | — | #2,864 | 8 | |
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| 1928 | #4,195 | 6 | #4,151 | 5 |
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| 1926 | — | #2,302 | 13 | |
| 1925 | — | #2,936 | 9 | |
| 1924 | — | #3,260 | 8 | |
| 1923 | — | #3,822 | 6 | |
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| 1921 | — | #2,986 | 9 | |
| 1920 | #4,975 | 5 | #3,489 | 7 |
| 1919 | — | #3,391 | 7 | |
| 1918 | — | #3,728 | 6 | |
| 1917 | — | #3,545 | 6 | |
| 1916 | — | #2,730 | 9 | |
| 1915 | — | #3,392 | 6 | |
| 1914 | — | #2,915 | 6 | |
| 1913 | — | #2,821 | 5 | |
| 1912 | — | #2,269 | 6 | |
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First appearance
1912
The first year at least five boys were named Orian! It came in at #2,269, and was given to 6 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1922, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.
Where Orian is popular in 2025
No state had 5 or more boys named Orian in 2025, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.
See more about Orian
Momentum · boys
Holding steady
- 971 spots since 2024 (#4,890 → #5,861)
- 820 spots since 2020 (#5,041 → #5,861)
- 803 spots since 2015 (#5,058 → #5,861)
Rise & fade · boys
Peaked on debut
- Debuted 1912
- Peaked 1912 at #2,269 (6 births)
- Births halved by 1922, 10 yrs later
Top of the charts · boys
Never in the top 1,000
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · boys
1 in 55,035
- Highest: 1 in 55,035 boys born in 2018 were named Orian (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 113,872 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #2,269 in 1912, was only 1 in 71,657 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · boys
The 2010s
- 26.3% of all boys named Orian (191) were born in this decade
Girls or boys?
Flipped in 1931
- Mostly girls until 1930, mostly boys since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 51 | #2,269 (1912) | #3,099 |
| 1920s | 57 | #2,302 (1926) | #3,278 |
| 1930s | 27 | #2,854 (1936) | #3,051 |
| 1940s | 13 | #2,690 (1946) | #3,075 |
| 1950s | 0 | — | — |
| 1960s | 0 | — | — |
| 1970s | 23 | #3,569 (1979) | #4,144 |
| 1980s | 40 | #3,838 (1980) | #5,601 |
| 1990s | 73 | #4,413 (1998) | #6,352 |
| 2000s | 161 | #3,888 (2006) | #5,434 |
| 2010s | 191 | #3,373 (2018) | #5,111 |
| 2020s | 89 | #4,890 (2024) | #6,088 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
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