Meaning not yet researched.
Orin: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 85 in 2025. Its best rank was #391 in 1880.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #391 in 1880; #1,859 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Orin in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,859 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1880, at #391.
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Orin: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 85 boys in 2025. Peak: #391 in 1880 · most boys in one year: 111 (1920).
In 2025, 85 US boys were named Orin, making it the 1,859th most common boys’ name of the year, up 392 places from #2,251 in 2024. That is 21 more than the 64 boys named Orin in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #391, reached in 1880. The most boys given the name in a single year was 111, in 1920. For comparison, it was #1,867 in 2015 and #1,048 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Orin in every one of the 146 years from 1880 to 2025; in 1880 there were 20 babies with the name. In all, 6,299 US babies have been given the name, 0.3% of them girls and 99.7% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1920s, with 811 babies named Orin.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 827 US boys were named Orin; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 97. In 2025 that was about 1 in 20,095 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Orin ranked highest in Michigan in 2025, at #1,222 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Orion (23,750 babies since 1880), Oren (9,547 babies since 1880), Orrin (5,985 babies since 1880) and Oran (4,447 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 Orin in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 47 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Michigan | 5 | #1,222 | — |
| Illinois | 5 | #1,433 | — |
| Texas | 6 | #2,488 | — |
| California | 5 | #2,713 | #2,479 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 85 | #1,859 |
| 2024 | — | — | 64 | #2,251 |
| 2023 | — | — | 56 | #2,428 |
| 2022 | — | — | 96 | #1,745 |
| 2021 | — | — | 95 | #1,718 |
| 2020 | 5 | #16,922 | 83 | #1,811 |
| 2019 | — | — | 78 | #1,910 |
| 2018 | — | — | 86 | #1,790 |
| 2017 | — | — | 97 | #1,640 |
| 2016 | — | — | 87 | #1,770 |
| 2015 | — | — | 79 | #1,867 |
| 2014 | — | — | 81 | #1,840 |
| 2013 | 5 | #18,599 | 65 | #2,082 |
| 2012 | 6 | #16,366 | 80 | #1,842 |
| 2011 | — | — | 56 | #2,305 |
| 2010 | — | — | 55 | #2,348 |
| 2009 | — | — | 66 | #2,090 |
| 2008 | — | — | 53 | #2,424 |
| 2007 | — | — | 54 | #2,406 |
| 2006 | — | — | 38 | #2,968 |
| 2005 | — | — | 34 | #3,070 |
| 2004 | — | — | 40 | #2,676 |
| 2003 | — | — | 28 | #3,343 |
| 2002 | — | — | 42 | #2,419 |
| 2001 | — | — | 37 | #2,604 |
| 2000 | — | — | 36 | #2,608 |
| 1999 | — | — | 21 | #3,673 |
| 1998 | — | — | 36 | #2,433 |
| 1997 | — | — | 28 | #2,801 |
| 1996 | — | — | 22 | #3,266 |
| 1995 | — | — | 21 | #3,276 |
| 1994 | — | — | 32 | #2,433 |
| 1993 | — | — | 36 | #2,199 |
| 1992 | — | — | 41 | #1,974 |
| 1991 | — | — | 28 | #2,526 |
| 1990 | — | — | 42 | #1,865 |
| 1989 | — | — | 49 | #1,634 |
| 1988 | — | — | 35 | #1,901 |
| 1987 | — | — | 34 | #1,889 |
| 1986 | — | — | 40 | #1,638 |
| 1985 | — | — | 32 | #1,859 |
| 1984 | — | — | 33 | #1,755 |
| 1983 | — | — | 40 | #1,527 |
| 1982 | — | — | 37 | #1,639 |
| 1981 | — | — | 38 | #1,592 |
| 1980 | — | — | 30 | #1,897 |
| 1979 | — | — | 41 | #1,483 |
| 1978 | — | — | 27 | #1,905 |
| 1977 | — | — | 24 | #2,048 |
| 1976 | — | — | 39 | #1,446 |
| 1975 | — | — | 40 | #1,397 |
| 1974 | — | — | 32 | #1,571 |
| 1973 | — | — | 29 | #1,640 |
| 1972 | — | — | 36 | #1,434 |
| 1971 | — | — | 39 | #1,370 |
| 1970 | — | — | 50 | #1,175 |
| 1969 | — | — | 34 | #1,391 |
| 1968 | — | — | 39 | #1,231 |
| 1967 | — | — | 40 | #1,194 |
| 1966 | — | — | 34 | #1,320 |
| 1965 | — | — | 29 | #1,450 |
| 1964 | — | — | 27 | #1,532 |
| 1963 | — | — | 22 | #1,729 |
| 1962 | — | — | 34 | #1,359 |
| 1961 | — | — | 31 | #1,459 |
| 1960 | — | — | 22 | #1,758 |
| 1959 | — | — | 27 | #1,549 |
| 1958 | — | — | 33 | #1,363 |
| 1957 | — | — | 40 | #1,243 |
| 1956 | — | — | 38 | #1,248 |
| 1955 | — | — | 37 | #1,251 |
| 1954 | — | — | 28 | #1,458 |
| 1953 | — | — | 48 | #1,053 |
| 1952 | — | — | 44 | #1,108 |
| 1951 | — | — | 51 | #988 |
| 1950 | — | — | 46 | #1,048 |
| 1949 | — | — | 37 | #1,178 |
| 1948 | — | — | 48 | #1,018 |
| 1947 | — | — | 53 | #982 |
| 1946 | — | — | 54 | #904 |
| 1945 | — | — | 37 | #1,068 |
| 1944 | — | — | 51 | #894 |
| 1943 | — | — | 47 | #982 |
| 1942 | — | — | 65 | #804 |
| 1941 | — | — | 52 | #884 |
| 1940 | — | — | 47 | #937 |
| 1939 | — | — | 46 | #926 |
| 1938 | — | — | 49 | #906 |
| 1937 | — | — | 50 | #878 |
| 1936 | — | — | 42 | #966 |
| 1935 | — | — | 50 | #902 |
| 1934 | — | — | 52 | #877 |
| 1933 | — | — | 44 | #958 |
| 1932 | — | — | 65 | #791 |
| 1931 | — | — | 54 | #876 |
| 1930 | — | — | 72 | #753 |
| 1929 | — | — | 69 | #779 |
| 1928 | — | — | 56 | #898 |
| 1927 | — | — | 53 | #962 |
| 1926 | — | — | 82 | #706 |
| 1925 | — | — | 79 | #738 |
| 1924 | — | — | 96 | #662 |
| 1923 | — | — | 86 | #700 |
| 1922 | — | — | 79 | #747 |
| 1921 | — | — | 100 | #646 |
| 1920 | — | — | 111 | #597 |
| 1919 | — | — | 87 | #667 |
| 1918 | — | — | 94 | #636 |
| 1917 | — | — | 88 | #633 |
| 1916 | — | — | 100 | #577 |
| 1915 | — | — | 83 | #640 |
| 1914 | — | — | 57 | #675 |
| 1913 | — | — | 47 | #657 |
| 1912 | — | — | 41 | #665 |
| 1911 | — | — | 22 | #682 |
| 1910 | — | — | 16 | #775 |
| 1909 | — | — | 17 | #670 |
| 1908 | — | — | 15 | #704 |
| 1907 | — | — | 15 | #692 |
| 1906 | — | — | 24 | #461 |
| 1905 | — | — | 19 | #543 |
| 1904 | — | — | 12 | #713 |
| 1903 | — | — | 12 | #687 |
| 1902 | — | — | 11 | #723 |
| 1901 | — | — | 10 | #716 |
| 1900 | — | — | 12 | #771 |
| 1899 | — | — | 6 | #1,019 |
| 1898 | — | — | 15 | #563 |
| 1897 | — | — | 19 | #452 |
| 1896 | — | — | 13 | #625 |
| 1895 | — | — | 7 | #954 |
| 1894 | — | — | 11 | #660 |
| 1893 | — | — | 13 | #564 |
| 1892 | — | — | 14 | #566 |
| 1891 | — | — | 10 | #625 |
| 1890 | — | — | 7 | #859 |
| 1889 | — | — | 16 | #478 |
| 1888 | — | — | 12 | #600 |
| 1887 | — | — | 15 | #450 |
| 1886 | — | — | 9 | #682 |
| 1885 | — | — | 20 | #408 |
| 1884 | — | — | 19 | #425 |
| 1883 | — | — | 18 | #428 |
| 1882 | — | — | 15 | #482 |
| 1881 | — | — | 9 | #637 |
| 1880 | — | — | 20 | #391 |
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).