boys:
1.1k births since 1975
#3533 (23rd percentile)
overall:
1.1k births since 1975
#6676 (14th percentile)
The name Oryan is the #6,676 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,063 recorded births since 1975. This represents the 13.7% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 13.7% of all names). For boys, it ranks #3,533 (22.9% percentile) for all time with 1,063 births since 1975.
Oryan first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1975 (first recorded for boys in 1975). Birth data for Oryan is available in 45 out of the 49 years between 1975 and 2023. 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.
For boys, Oryan reached its peak popularity in 2009, achieving the 5.3% percentile (ranked #853) with 25 births per million. The name was most common in 2009, with 25 births per million (ranked 5.3% percentile). Despite a low point around 2016, the name has seen a recent decline in popularity for boys. Currently, Oryan ranks #895 for boys (1.8% percentile) with 11 births per million, which is 45.9% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Oryan".
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Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Oryan. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 72.5% confident that Oryan is pronounced as AW-ree-uhn, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is OR-yuhn, at 20.0% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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