Orah is a rare spelling. It is summarised with Ora, which shares its sound and spelling pattern.
Meaning not yet researched.
Orah: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 10 in 2025. Its best rank was #794 in 1882.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #794 in 1882; #9,933 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Orah in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#9,933 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1882, at #794.
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Orah: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 10 girls in 2025. Peak: #794 in 1882 · most girls in one year: 12 (1892).
In 2025, 10 US girls were named Orah, making it the 9,933rd most common girls’ name of the year, up 960 places from #10,893 in 2024. That is 1 more than the 9 girls named Orah in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #794, reached in 1882. The most girls given the name in a single year was 12, in 1892. For comparison, it was unranked (under five girls) in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Orah in 41 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1882 with 7 babies. In all, 291 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 1890s, with 65 babies named Orah.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 57 US girls were named Orah; the busiest of those years was 2021, with 11. In 2025 that was about 1 in 160,727 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Ora (44,894 babies since 1880).
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Orah in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 10 | #9,933 | — | — |
| 2024 | 9 | #10,893 | — | — |
| 2023 | 6 | #14,733 | — | — |
| 2021 | 11 | #9,395 | — | — |
| 2020 | 7 | #13,120 | — | — |
| 2017 | 9 | #11,390 | — | — |
| 2016 | 5 | #18,181 | — | — |
| 2009 | 7 | #14,840 | — | — |
| 2008 | 6 | #16,951 | — | — |
| 1991 | 5 | #14,730 | — | — |
| 1941 | 5 | #4,900 | — | — |
| 1940 | 5 | #4,869 | — | — |
| 1930 | 5 | #5,078 | — | — |
| 1924 | 8 | #3,917 | — | — |
| 1923 | 10 | #3,303 | — | — |
| 1922 | 11 | #3,105 | — | — |
| 1920 | 10 | #3,290 | — | — |
| 1918 | 8 | #3,777 | — | — |
| 1917 | 7 | #3,999 | — | — |
| 1914 | 5 | #4,061 | — | — |
| 1913 | 5 | #3,579 | — | — |
| 1904 | 5 | #2,100 | — | — |
| 1903 | 6 | #1,737 | — | — |
| 1900 | 7 | #1,692 | — | — |
| 1898 | 6 | #1,646 | — | — |
| 1897 | 7 | #1,358 | — | — |
| 1896 | 6 | #1,538 | — | — |
| 1895 | 8 | #1,272 | — | — |
| 1894 | 6 | #1,450 | — | — |
| 1893 | 5 | #1,599 | — | — |
| 1892 | 12 | #892 | — | — |
| 1891 | 6 | #1,301 | — | — |
| 1890 | 9 | #989 | — | — |
| 1889 | 7 | #1,111 | — | — |
| 1888 | 7 | #1,107 | — | — |
| 1887 | 6 | #1,123 | — | — |
| 1886 | 7 | #970 | — | — |
| 1885 | 6 | #1,019 | — | — |
| 1884 | 7 | #908 | — | — |
| 1883 | 7 | #801 | — | — |
| 1882 | 7 | #794 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).