girls:
16 births since 2012
#5700 (0th percentile)
boys:
6.1k births since 1880
#1503 (67th percentile)
overall:
6.1k births since 1880
#3455 (55th percentile)
The name Orin is the #3,455 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 6,148 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 55.4% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 55.4% of all names). For boys, it ranks #1,503 (67.2% percentile) for all time with 6,132 births since 1880. For girls, it ranks #5,700 (0.2% percentile) for all time with 16 births since 2012.
Orin has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for boys and since 2012 for girls).
The name Orin has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.7% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Orin reached its peak popularity in 1920, achieving the 19.5% percentile (ranked #431) with 101 births per million. The name was most common in 1885, with 172 births per million (ranked 7.1% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2006, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Orin ranks #860 for boys (5.6% percentile) with 31 births per million, which is 17.7% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Orin reached its peak popularity in 2012, achieving the 0.1% percentile (ranked #936) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 2012, with 3 births per million (ranked 0.1% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2020.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Orin".
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Our model found one way to pronounce the name Orin. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 100.0% confident that Orin is pronounced as AW-rihn, which has 2 syllables.
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The raw pronunciations shown (like AO1 R IH0 N) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.
Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.
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