girls:
136 births since 1915
#5580 (2nd percentile)
boys:
551 births since 1883
#4035 (12th percentile)
overall:
687 births since 1883
#7052 (9th percentile)
The name Orel is the #7,052 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 687 recorded births since 1883. This represents the 8.9% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 8.9% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,035 (12.0% percentile) for all time with 551 births since 1883. For girls, it ranks #5,580 (2.3% percentile) for all time with 136 births since 1915.
Orel first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1883 (1883 for boys and 1915 for girls). Birth data for Orel is available in 62 out of the 141 years between 1883 and 2023 (62 years for boys and 8 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Orel has been given predominantly to boys, with 80.2% of all recorded births being male. In 2023, 100.0% of babies named Orel were boys.
For boys, Orel reached its peak popularity in 1916, achieving the 4.4% percentile (ranked #480) with 29 births per million. The name was most common in 1891, with 46 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2021, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Orel ranks #911 for boys (0.0% percentile) with 3 births per million, which is 6.0% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Orel reached its peak popularity in 1916, achieving the 7.2% percentile (ranked #532) with 42 births per million. The name was most common in 1916, with 42 births per million (ranked 7.2% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2009.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Orel".
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These similar-looking names have spellings that are closest to the spelling of "Orel", in the sense that there are the fewest number of letter differences between the two spellings. This list excludes the 7 other name spellings that we've determined are also variations of "Oral" based on shared pronunciations. Click here for more details on names that are pronounced like Oral..
Our model has identified 5 different pronunciations for the name Orel. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 46.5% confident that Orel is pronounced as AW-rehl, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is AW-ruhl, at 30.2% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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