Orra

Where Orra comes from

Orra hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1796
    Orra White Hitchcock born
    American botanical artist
  2. 1885
    First appearance
    #1,047 among girls, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  3. 1888
    Peak, #837
    10 babies named Orra — more than any year before or since.
  4. 1892
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,450.
  5. 1895
    Orra Almira Phelps born
    American doctor, teacher, naturalist, botanist, and environmentalist
  6. 1920
    Mostly girls from here
    Until now more boys than girls got the name; from this year it's the other way round, and has stayed that way.
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Orra White Hitchcock · American botanical artist, 1796–1863
  • Orra Almira Phelps · American doctor, teacher, naturalist, botanist, and environmentalist, 1895–1986

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.