Orion

girls:

580 births since 1917

#5136 (10th percentile)

boys:

21k births since 1880

#792 (83rd percentile)

overall:

21.6k births since 1880

#1736 (78th percentile)

Popularity Trends

This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Orion".

1880 2023 18802023

Key Statistics

Total Births
580
Peak Births
40
Peak Year
2021
First Recorded
1917
Peak Percentile
3.7%
Current Percentile
1.9%
Peak Rank
#577
Current Rank
#929
Female statistics
Total Births
21,020
Peak Births
1,152
Peak Year
2018
First Recorded
1880
Peak Percentile
68.3%
Current Percentile
61.6%
Peak Rank
#201
Current Rank
#350
Male statistics

How to Pronounce Orion

Our model has identified 6 different pronunciations for the name Orion. Click the play button next to the name to hear the pronunciation spoken aloud.

Our model is 45.1% confident that Orion is pronounced as aw-RAI-uhn. The next most likely pronunciation is oh-RAI-uhn, at 23.5% confidence.

aw-RAI-uhn (3 syllables)
Verified
45.1% confidence
AO0 R AY1 AH0 N
oh-RAI-uhn (3 syllables)
Verified
23.5% confidence
OW0 R AY1 AH0 N
aw-REE-uhn (3 syllables)
9.8% confidence
AO0 R IY1 AH0 N
uh-RAI-uhn (3 syllables)
3.9% confidence
AH0 R AY1 AH0 N
AW-REE-uhn (3 syllables)
3.9% confidence
AO1 R IY1 AH0 N

Possible Additional Pronunciations

These are pronunciations that other similar names use, but which are not currently associated with Orion. If you think any of these are valid pronunciations for Orion, please vote using the thumbs up button.

ah-REE-uhn (3 syllables)
14 names 6.8k births
AA0 R IY1 AH0 N
AW-reen (2 syllables)
5 names 1.2k births
AO1 R IY0 N

About Pronunciation Data

Our confidence scores estimate the likelihood that a particular pronunciation is the most correct for a given name spelling. These scores are derived from pronunciation dictionaries, manual verification, your feedback, and a fine-tuned large language model trained to generate name pronunciations.

For any given spelling, confidence scores across all identified pronunciations sum to 100%. However, these scores don't account for the possibility of valid pronunciations that our model hasn't identified.

The raw pronunciations shown (like AO0 R AY1 AH0 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.