In 2025, 10 US girls were named Orelia, making it the 9,935th most common girls’ name of the year. Its best rank for girls was #839, reached in 1887. The most girls given the name in a single year was 27, in 1920. For comparison, it was #18,459 in 2015 and #3,874 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Orelia in 94 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1887 with 9 babies. In all, 991 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 1920s, with 191 babies named Orelia.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 31 US girls were named Orelia; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 10. 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 Oralia (5,763 babies since 1880).