Meaning not yet researched.
Orla: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 70 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,410 in 1892.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,410 in 1892; #2,532 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Orla in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,532 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1892, at #1,410.
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Orla: US girls and boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 70 girls in 2025. Peak: #1,410 in 1892 · most girls in one year: 71 (2024).
In 2025, 70 US girls were named Orla, making it the 2,532nd most common girls’ name of the year, down 7 places from #2,525 in 2024. That is 1 fewer than the 71 girls named Orla in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,410, reached in 1892. The most girls given the name in a single year was 71, in 2024. For comparison, it was #4,687 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Fewer than five US boys were named Orla in 2025, so it does not appear in that year’s SSA list for boys. Its best rank for boys was #657, reached in 1890. The most boys given the name in a single year was 13, in 1921. For comparison, it was unranked (under five boys) in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Orla in 88 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1880 with 5 babies. In all, 1,485 US babies have been given the name, 81% of them girls and 19% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 357 babies named Orla.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 473 US girls were named Orla; the busiest of those years was 2024, with 71. In 2025 that was about 1 in 22,961 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Orla ranked highest in New York in 2025, at #1,292 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Rarer spellings such as Orlagh are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
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No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Orlagh (17).
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 Orla in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 49 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 11 | #1,292 | #1,917 |
| Pennsylvania | 6 | #1,353 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 70 | #2,532 | — | — |
| 2024 | 71 | #2,525 | — | — |
| 2023 | 68 | #2,609 | — | — |
| 2022 | 60 | #2,850 | — | — |
| 2021 | 56 | #2,989 | — | — |
| 2020 | 32 | #4,338 | — | — |
| 2019 | 37 | #3,984 | — | — |
| 2018 | 29 | #4,747 | — | — |
| 2017 | 19 | #6,472 | — | — |
| 2016 | 31 | #4,605 | — | — |
| 2015 | 30 | #4,687 | — | — |
| 2014 | 29 | #4,867 | — | — |
| 2013 | 29 | #4,855 | — | — |
| 2012 | 19 | #6,811 | — | — |
| 2011 | 28 | #5,024 | — | — |
| 2010 | 22 | #6,129 | — | — |
| 2009 | 31 | #4,778 | — | — |
| 2008 | 17 | #7,660 | — | — |
| 2007 | 21 | #6,497 | — | — |
| 2006 | 14 | #8,602 | — | — |
| 2005 | 15 | #7,813 | — | — |
| 2004 | 14 | #8,126 | — | — |
| 2003 | 14 | #7,890 | — | — |
| 2002 | 17 | #6,619 | — | — |
| 2001 | 17 | #6,547 | — | — |
| 2000 | 19 | #5,883 | — | — |
| 1999 | 11 | #8,648 | — | — |
| 1998 | 7 | #12,053 | — | — |
| 1997 | 9 | #9,609 | — | — |
| 1996 | 7 | #11,462 | — | — |
| 1994 | 6 | #12,962 | — | — |
| 1992 | 6 | #12,899 | — | — |
| 1991 | 10 | #8,419 | — | — |
| 1967 | 5 | #7,541 | — | — |
| 1966 | 6 | #6,356 | — | — |
| 1965 | — | — | 6 | #3,816 |
| 1964 | 5 | #7,496 | — | — |
| 1959 | 5 | #6,954 | — | — |
| 1957 | 5 | #6,781 | — | — |
| 1956 | 5 | #6,642 | — | — |
| 1951 | 5 | #6,007 | — | — |
| 1949 | 5 | #5,831 | — | — |
| 1947 | 8 | #4,247 | 5 | #4,124 |
| 1945 | — | — | 6 | #3,226 |
| 1944 | 6 | #4,428 | 5 | #3,785 |
| 1941 | — | — | 6 | #3,406 |
| 1940 | 7 | #3,761 | — | — |
| 1938 | 6 | #4,221 | — | — |
| 1937 | 11 | #2,693 | — | — |
| 1936 | 6 | #4,045 | — | — |
| 1934 | 10 | #2,890 | 7 | #3,204 |
| 1933 | 10 | #2,827 | — | — |
| 1932 | 8 | #3,501 | — | — |
| 1931 | — | — | 6 | #3,661 |
| 1930 | 8 | #3,585 | 10 | #2,738 |
| 1929 | 9 | #3,330 | 8 | #3,174 |
| 1928 | 11 | #2,912 | 9 | #3,010 |
| 1927 | 16 | #2,319 | 10 | #2,855 |
| 1926 | 14 | #2,548 | 6 | #4,064 |
| 1925 | 8 | #3,946 | 6 | #4,077 |
| 1924 | 9 | #3,603 | 10 | #2,965 |
| 1923 | 10 | #3,305 | 11 | #2,730 |
| 1922 | 15 | #2,457 | 12 | #2,599 |
| 1921 | 11 | #3,109 | 13 | #2,473 |
| 1920 | 17 | #2,241 | 10 | #2,911 |
| 1919 | 13 | #2,612 | 9 | #3,058 |
| 1918 | 9 | #3,451 | 7 | #3,615 |
| 1917 | 11 | #2,830 | 11 | #2,526 |
| 1916 | 17 | #2,006 | 9 | #2,874 |
| 1915 | 6 | #4,141 | 7 | #3,306 |
| 1914 | 10 | #2,394 | 6 | #3,167 |
| 1913 | — | — | 6 | #2,716 |
| 1912 | — | — | 7 | #2,207 |
| 1910 | 5 | #2,693 | — | — |
| 1904 | 5 | #2,101 | — | — |
| 1900 | — | — | 6 | #1,275 |
| 1899 | 6 | #1,544 | 6 | #1,020 |
| 1898 | 5 | #1,897 | 5 | #1,256 |
| 1894 | — | — | 8 | #840 |
| 1892 | 6 | #1,410 | — | — |
| 1891 | — | — | 5 | #1,086 |
| 1890 | — | — | 10 | #657 |
| 1887 | — | — | 8 | #728 |
| 1885 | — | — | 6 | #907 |
| 1884 | — | — | 7 | #827 |
| 1882 | — | — | 6 | #917 |
| 1881 | — | — | 6 | #843 |
| 1880 | — | — | 5 | #1,026 |
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).