Orah
Orah was given to 10 girls in 2025, #9,930 among girls’ names; 291 Americans have been recorded with it since 1882 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Orah by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Orah?
#9,930 among girls’ names, 2025
Orah entered the girls’ rankings after 2015 and stood at #9,930 in 2025.
12 babies in 1892, the peak
Orah peaked in 1892, when 12 girls were given it, #892 among girls’ names. The 10 births of 2025 are 83% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 10 | #9,930 | 6.2 |
| 2024 | 9 | #10,888 | 5.6 |
| 2023 | 6 | #14,727 | 3.7 |
| 2021 | 11 | #9,390 | 6.7 |
| 2020 | 7 | #13,115 | 4.3 |
| 2017 | 9 | #11,386 | 5.2 |
| 2016 | 5 | #18,176 | 2.8 |
| 2009 | 7 | #14,834 | 3.8 |
| 2008 | 6 | #16,945 | 3.2 |
| 1991 | 5 | #14,723 | 2.7 |
Every recorded year (41)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1941 | 5 | #4,898 | 4.1 |
| 1940 | 5 | #4,867 | 4.4 |
| 1930 | 5 | #5,076 | 4.4 |
| 1924 | 8 | #3,915 | 6.4 |
| 1923 | 10 | #3,302 | 8.3 |
| 1922 | 11 | #3,103 | 9.2 |
| 1920 | 10 | #3,289 | 8.3 |
| 1918 | 8 | #3,775 | 6.9 |
| 1917 | 7 | #3,997 | 6.5 |
| 1914 | 5 | #4,059 | 6.6 |
| 1913 | 5 | #3,577 | 8.0 |
| 1904 | 5 | #2,099 | 18.2 |
| 1903 | 6 | #1,737 | 22.9 |
| 1900 | 7 | #1,691 | 23.4 |
| 1898 | 6 | #1,645 | 23.2 |
| 1897 | 7 | #1,358 | 29.9 |
| 1896 | 6 | #1,538 | 25.2 |
| 1895 | 8 | #1,272 | 34.2 |
| 1894 | 6 | #1,449 | 26.9 |
| 1893 | 5 | #1,599 | 23.5 |
| 1892 | 12 | #892 | 56.5 |
| 1891 | 6 | #1,301 | 32.3 |
| 1890 | 9 | #989 | 47.3 |
| 1889 | 7 | #1,110 | 39.2 |
| 1888 | 7 | #1,107 | 39.2 |
| 1887 | 6 | #1,123 | 41.1 |
| 1886 | 7 | #970 | 48.4 |
| 1885 | 6 | #1,019 | 45.1 |
| 1884 | 7 | #908 | 54.3 |
| 1883 | 7 | #801 | 62.3 |
| 1882 | 7 | #794 | 64.9 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Orah a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Orah has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 41 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Orah: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Orah, and how old are they?
An estimated 79 Americans named Orah and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026, too few to state an age range. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 167 people named Orah (149 women and girls, 18 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 43 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3.9 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Of these 6 names spelled alike, given to 46,277 babies since 1880, Orah is the fourth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 10 of their 98 babies (10%), again the fourth most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Orah
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Orah and names like it
- Compare Orah and OraBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1890sOrah peaked in 1892.
- The top names of 1892The year the most babies were named Orah.
- Names starting with OMost given first.