In 2025, 22 US boys were named Orlin, making it the 4,662nd most common boys’ name of the year, down 366 places from #4,296 in 2024. That is 3 fewer than the 25 boys named Orlin in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #947, reached in 1932. That year also had the most boys given the name: 48. For comparison, it was #5,225 in 2015 and #2,403 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Orlin in 96 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1908 with 6 babies. In all, 1,683 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 1920s, with 360 babies named Orlin.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 179 US boys were named Orlin; the busiest of those years was 2024, with 25. In 2025 that was about 1 in 77,640 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.