Oryan is a rare spelling. It is summarised with Orion, which shares its sound and spelling pattern.
Meaning not yet researched.
Oryan: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 36 in 2025. Its best rank was #2,320 in 2005.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #2,320 in 2005; #3,289 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Oryan in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#3,289 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2005, at #2,320.
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Oryan: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 36 boys in 2025. Peak: #2,320 in 2005 · most boys in one year: 53 (2009).
In 2025, 36 US boys were named Oryan, making it the 3,289th most common boys’ name of the year, up 580 places from #3,869 in 2024. That is 7 more than the 29 boys named Oryan in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #2,320, reached in 2005. The most boys given the name in a single year was 53, in 2009. For comparison, it was #2,707 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Oryan in 47 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1975 with 5 babies. In all, 1,130 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 363 babies named Oryan.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 317 US boys were named Oryan; the busiest of those years was 2022, with 38. In 2025 that was about 1 in 47,447 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Orion (23,750 babies since 1880), Oren (9,547 babies since 1880), Orin (6,299 babies since 1880) and Orrin (5,985 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 Oryan 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 | — | — | 36 | #3,289 |
| 2024 | — | — | 29 | #3,869 |
| 2023 | — | — | 22 | #4,699 |
| 2022 | — | — | 38 | #3,200 |
| 2021 | — | — | 29 | #3,792 |
| 2020 | — | — | 36 | #3,186 |
| 2019 | — | — | 30 | #3,694 |
| 2018 | — | — | 31 | #3,584 |
| 2017 | — | — | 34 | #3,361 |
| 2016 | — | — | 32 | #3,499 |
| 2015 | — | — | 45 | #2,707 |
| 2014 | — | — | 32 | #3,441 |
| 2013 | — | — | 35 | #3,169 |
| 2012 | — | — | 30 | #3,606 |
| 2011 | — | — | 37 | #3,091 |
| 2010 | — | — | 51 | #2,459 |
| 2009 | — | — | 53 | #2,439 |
| 2008 | — | — | 52 | #2,454 |
| 2007 | — | — | 32 | #3,429 |
| 2006 | — | — | 49 | #2,502 |
| 2005 | — | — | 51 | #2,320 |
| 2004 | — | — | 39 | #2,731 |
| 2003 | — | — | 26 | #3,500 |
| 2002 | — | — | 20 | #4,149 |
| 2001 | — | — | 24 | #3,591 |
| 2000 | — | — | 17 | #4,518 |
| 1999 | — | — | 20 | #3,800 |
| 1998 | — | — | 23 | #3,366 |
| 1997 | — | — | 5 | #10,378 |
| 1996 | — | — | 15 | #4,334 |
| 1995 | — | — | 8 | #6,819 |
| 1994 | — | — | 14 | #4,475 |
| 1993 | — | — | 12 | #4,921 |
| 1992 | — | — | 12 | #4,787 |
| 1991 | — | — | 7 | #7,067 |
| 1990 | — | — | 14 | #4,125 |
| 1989 | — | — | 14 | #3,960 |
| 1988 | — | — | 8 | #5,586 |
| 1987 | — | — | 12 | #3,902 |
| 1986 | — | — | 11 | #4,056 |
| 1984 | — | — | 6 | #6,119 |
| 1983 | — | — | 10 | #4,069 |
| 1982 | — | — | 5 | #7,077 |
| 1979 | — | — | 9 | #4,309 |
| 1978 | — | — | 5 | #6,507 |
| 1977 | — | — | 5 | #6,575 |
| 1975 | — | — | 5 | #6,057 |
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).