girls:
86 births since 1920
#5630 (1st percentile)
boys:
690 births since 1912
#3897 (15th percentile)
overall:
776 births since 1912
#6963 (10th percentile)
The name Orian is the #6,963 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 776 recorded births since 1912. This represents the 10.0% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 10.0% of all names). For boys, it ranks #3,897 (15.0% percentile) for all time with 690 births since 1912. For girls, it ranks #5,630 (1.5% percentile) for all time with 86 births since 1920.
Orian first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1912 (1912 for boys and 1920 for girls). Birth data for Orian is available in 62 out of the 112 years between 1912 and 2023 (62 years for boys and 13 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 Orian has been given predominantly to boys, with 88.9% of all recorded births being male. In 2023, 100.0% of babies named Orian were boys.
For boys, Orian reached its peak popularity in 2018, achieving the 3.1% percentile (ranked #885) with 17 births per million. The name was most common in 2018, with 17 births per million (ranked 3.1% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2020, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Orian ranks #907 for boys (0.4% percentile) with 5 births per million, which is 28.9% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Orian reached its peak popularity in 2022, achieving the 0.6% percentile (ranked #952) with 6 births per million. The name was most common in 2022, with 6 births per million (ranked 0.6% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2022.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Orian".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Orian is pronounced as AW-ree-uhn, which has 3 syllables.
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