Oran
Oran was given to 19 boys in 2025, #5,152 among boys’ names; 4,447 Americans have been recorded with it since 1880 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,750 Americans named Oran and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (39% of everyone recorded); the median is 49 years old and half are between 22 and 69.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Oran by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Oran mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Oran is “a male given name from Irish.” Its etymology gives the sense “dun, sallow” (odur).
Anglicized from Old Irish saints' name Odrán, diminutive of odur (“dun, sallow”) (compare Irish Odhrán).
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Oran?
#5,152 among boys’ names, 2025
Oran fell from #4,509 in 2015 to #5,152 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 11.5 to 11.1 per million.
104 babies in 1922, the peak
Oran peaked in 1922, when 104 boys were given it, #636 among boys’ names. The 19 births of 2025 are 18% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 19 | #5,152 | 0.01 |
| 2024 | 20 | #5,002 | 0.01 |
| 2023 | 17 | #5,599 | 0.01 |
| 2022 | 17 | #5,573 | 0.01 |
| 2021 | 27 | #3,976 | 0.02 |
| 2020 | 15 | #5,896 | 0.01 |
| 2019 | 16 | #5,729 | 0.01 |
| 2018 | 15 | #5,965 | 0.01 |
| 2017 | 20 | #4,883 | 0.01 |
| 2016 | 23 | #4,431 | 0.01 |
Every recorded year (145)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 22 | #4,509 | 0.01 |
| 2014 | 29 | #3,667 | 0.02 |
| 2013 | 20 | #4,751 | 0.01 |
| 2012 | 15 | #5,903 | 0.01 |
| 2011 | 28 | #3,761 | 0.01 |
| 2010 | 15 | #5,954 | 0.01 |
| 2009 | 23 | #4,390 | 0.01 |
| 2008 | 22 | #4,495 | 0.01 |
| 2007 | 18 | #5,149 | 0.01 |
| 2006 | 22 | #4,328 | 0.01 |
| 2005 | 24 | #3,905 | 0.01 |
| 2004 | 15 | #5,417 | 0.01 |
| 2003 | 23 | #3,810 | 0.01 |
| 2002 | 22 | #3,875 | 0.01 |
| 2001 | 20 | #4,069 | 0.01 |
| 2000 | 12 | #5,809 | 0.01 |
| 1999 | 21 | #3,667 | 0.01 |
| 1998 | 15 | #4,577 | 0.01 |
| 1997 | 14 | #4,611 | 0.01 |
| 1996 | 16 | #4,130 | 0.01 |
| 1995 | 12 | #5,028 | 0.01 |
| 1994 | 20 | #3,423 | 0.01 |
| 1993 | 18 | #3,600 | 0.01 |
| 1992 | 21 | #3,175 | 0.01 |
| 1991 | 17 | #3,578 | 0.01 |
| 1990 | 15 | #3,906 | 0.01 |
| 1989 | 27 | #2,446 | 0.01 |
| 1988 | 17 | #3,168 | 0.01 |
| 1987 | 26 | #2,249 | 0.01 |
| 1986 | 16 | #3,089 | 0.01 |
| 1985 | 19 | #2,674 | 0.01 |
| 1984 | 7 | #5,414 | under 0.01 |
| 1983 | 9 | #4,393 | 0.01 |
| 1982 | 10 | #4,151 | 0.01 |
| 1981 | 17 | #2,747 | 0.01 |
| 1980 | 17 | #2,807 | 0.01 |
| 1979 | 24 | #2,140 | 0.01 |
| 1978 | 19 | #2,450 | 0.01 |
| 1977 | 21 | #2,250 | 0.01 |
| 1976 | 23 | #2,094 | 0.01 |
| 1975 | 23 | #2,045 | 0.01 |
| 1974 | 26 | #1,821 | 0.02 |
| 1973 | 26 | #1,767 | 0.02 |
| 1972 | 19 | #2,136 | 0.01 |
| 1971 | 17 | #2,345 | 0.01 |
| 1970 | 32 | #1,511 | 0.02 |
| 1969 | 23 | #1,756 | 0.01 |
| 1968 | 29 | #1,472 | 0.02 |
| 1967 | 23 | #1,637 | 0.01 |
| 1966 | 21 | #1,709 | 0.01 |
| 1965 | 27 | #1,504 | 0.01 |
| 1964 | 26 | #1,564 | 0.01 |
| 1963 | 21 | #1,777 | 0.01 |
| 1962 | 24 | #1,659 | 0.01 |
| 1961 | 23 | #1,722 | 0.01 |
| 1960 | 31 | #1,455 | 0.01 |
| 1959 | 32 | #1,404 | 0.01 |
| 1958 | 39 | #1,247 | 0.02 |
| 1957 | 42 | #1,208 | 0.02 |
| 1956 | 31 | #1,408 | 0.01 |
| 1955 | 41 | #1,177 | 0.02 |
| 1954 | 37 | #1,236 | 0.02 |
| 1953 | 43 | #1,132 | 0.02 |
| 1952 | 35 | #1,264 | 0.02 |
| 1951 | 33 | #1,288 | 0.02 |
| 1950 | 41 | #1,117 | 0.02 |
| 1949 | 50 | #992 | 0.03 |
| 1948 | 43 | #1,088 | 0.02 |
| 1947 | 44 | #1,105 | 0.02 |
| 1946 | 46 | #1,012 | 0.03 |
| 1945 | 36 | #1,099 | 0.03 |
| 1944 | 50 | #904 | 0.04 |
| 1943 | 55 | #906 | 0.04 |
| 1942 | 57 | #873 | 0.04 |
| 1941 | 51 | #893 | 0.04 |
| 1940 | 39 | #1,047 | 0.03 |
| 1939 | 48 | #903 | 0.04 |
| 1938 | 26 | #1,331 | 0.02 |
| 1937 | 36 | #1,089 | 0.03 |
| 1936 | 54 | #831 | 0.05 |
| 1935 | 53 | #866 | 0.05 |
| 1934 | 63 | #785 | 0.06 |
| 1933 | 53 | #858 | 0.05 |
| 1932 | 57 | #849 | 0.05 |
| 1931 | 61 | #806 | 0.06 |
| 1930 | 69 | #774 | 0.06 |
| 1929 | 62 | #834 | 0.06 |
| 1928 | 60 | #861 | 0.05 |
| 1927 | 85 | #706 | 0.08 |
| 1926 | 86 | #687 | 0.08 |
| 1925 | 86 | #700 | 0.08 |
| 1924 | 86 | #714 | 0.08 |
| 1923 | 90 | #679 | 0.08 |
| 1922 | 104 | #636 | 0.10 |
| 1921 | 96 | #663 | 0.09 |
| 1920 | 84 | #711 | 0.08 |
| 1919 | 88 | #661 | 0.09 |
| 1918 | 74 | #751 | 0.07 |
| 1917 | 81 | #666 | 0.09 |
| 1916 | 81 | #655 | 0.09 |
| 1915 | 76 | #670 | 0.09 |
| 1914 | 65 | #630 | 0.10 |
| 1913 | 58 | #576 | 0.11 |
| 1912 | 39 | #687 | 0.09 |
| 1911 | 19 | #750 | 0.08 |
| 1910 | 19 | #697 | 0.10 |
| 1909 | 12 | #883 | 0.07 |
| 1908 | 21 | #562 | 0.14 |
| 1907 | 11 | #849 | 0.07 |
| 1906 | 14 | #673 | 0.11 |
| 1905 | 20 | #518 | 0.15 |
| 1904 | 10 | #798 | 0.08 |
| 1903 | 13 | #647 | 0.11 |
| 1902 | 11 | #721 | 0.09 |
| 1901 | 17 | #486 | 0.16 |
| 1900 | 12 | #768 | 0.08 |
| 1899 | 5 | #1,160 | 0.05 |
| 1898 | 15 | #562 | 0.12 |
| 1897 | 13 | #610 | 0.12 |
| 1896 | 11 | #711 | 0.09 |
| 1895 | 12 | #635 | 0.10 |
| 1894 | 9 | #771 | 0.08 |
| 1893 | 9 | #747 | 0.08 |
| 1892 | 10 | #736 | 0.08 |
| 1891 | 6 | #928 | 0.06 |
| 1890 | 5 | #1,113 | 0.05 |
| 1889 | 8 | #772 | 0.07 |
| 1888 | 7 | #893 | 0.06 |
| 1887 | 9 | #667 | 0.09 |
| 1886 | 6 | #932 | 0.05 |
| 1884 | 8 | #742 | 0.07 |
| 1883 | 11 | #582 | 0.11 |
| 1882 | 6 | #915 | 0.05 |
| 1881 | 7 | #758 | 0.07 |
| 1880 | 14 | #497 | 0.13 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Oran a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Oran has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 145 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Oran: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Oran, and how old are they?
1,750 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 39% of the 4,447 Americans ever recorded as Oran. The median Oran alive today is 49 years old; half are between 22 and 69.
The 2020 Census counted 1,816 people named Oran (39 women and girls, 1,777 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,879 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 166 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 438 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 326 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 254 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 304 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 258 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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).
Where are babies named Oran born?
The states with the most babies named Oran are Texas, Oklahoma and Louisiana, with 74% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Oklahoma and Louisiana are not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 692 | not ranked | 2.6× |
| Oklahoma | 136 | not ranked | 1.8× |
| Louisiana | 65 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| West Virginia | 57 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Missouri | 53 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Arkansas | 44 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| California | 33 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Illinois | 25 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Indiana | 25 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Kentucky | 20 | not ranked | 0.2× |
Where Oran is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Oran is most over-represented in Texas: since 1910 it was given 2.6 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Oran with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 52,899 babies since 1880, Oran is the fifth most given (8.4% of them). In 2025 it was given to 19 of their 1,433 babies (1.3%), the seventh most given that year.
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 Oran
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 Oran and names like it
- Compare Oran and OrionBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1920sOran peaked in 1922.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Oran since 1910.
- Irish namesWiktionary’s origin for Oran: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1922The year the most babies were named Oran.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Oran alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with OMost given first.