Orange
Orange was last recorded in 1971, when 5 babies were given it; 616 Americans have been recorded with it between 1881 and 1971 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Orange by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Orange?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #5,443, in 1971; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
25 babies in 1920, the peak
Orange peaked in 1920, when 25 babies were given it (20 boys, #1,803 among boys’ names). It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1971 | 5 | #5,443 | under 0.01 |
| 1959 | 8 | #3,208 | under 0.01 |
| 1955 | 5 | #4,238 | under 0.01 |
| 1953 | 7 | #3,344 | under 0.01 |
| 1952 | 8 | #3,035 | under 0.01 |
| 1949 | 11 | #2,421 | 0.01 |
| 1948 | 7 | #3,229 | under 0.01 |
| 1947 | 6 | #3,644 | under 0.01 |
| 1945 | 14 | #1,905 | 0.01 |
| 1944 | 8 | #2,796 | 0.01 |
Every recorded year (63)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1943 | 5 | #3,914 | under 0.01 |
| 1942 | 6 | #3,464 | under 0.01 |
| 1941 | 7 | #3,064 | 0.01 |
| 1940 | 9 | #2,621 | 0.01 |
| 1939 | 7 | #3,042 | 0.01 |
| 1938 | 9 | #2,599 | 0.01 |
| 1937 | 7 | #3,102 | 0.01 |
| 1936 | 9 | #2,575 | 0.01 |
| 1935 | 8 | #2,879 | 0.01 |
| 1934 | 6 | #3,569 | 0.01 |
| 1933 | 11 | #2,325 | 0.01 |
| 1932 | 11 | #2,428 | 0.01 |
| 1931 | 8 | #3,029 | 0.01 |
| 1930 | 11 | #2,562 | 0.01 |
| 1929 | 16 | #1,981 | 0.01 |
| 1928 | 13 | #2,358 | 0.01 |
| 1927 | 16 | #2,103 | 0.01 |
| 1926 | 9 | #3,076 | 0.01 |
| 1925 | 14 | #2,287 | 0.01 |
| 1924 | 7 | #3,756 | 0.01 |
| 1923 | 12 | #2,566 | 0.01 |
| 1922 | 10 | #2,944 | 0.01 |
| 1921 | 16 | #2,127 | 0.01 |
| 1920 | 20 | #1,803 | 0.02 |
| 1919 | 15 | #2,125 | 0.02 |
| 1918 | 15 | #2,132 | 0.01 |
| 1917 | 11 | #2,523 | 0.01 |
| 1916 | 15 | #2,018 | 0.02 |
| 1915 | 16 | #1,862 | 0.02 |
| 1914 | 12 | #1,939 | 0.02 |
| 1913 | 11 | #1,772 | 0.02 |
| 1912 | 9 | #1,842 | 0.02 |
| 1911 | 5 | #1,932 | 0.02 |
| 1907 | 6 | #1,297 | 0.04 |
| 1906 | 6 | #1,210 | 0.05 |
| 1905 | 5 | #1,375 | 0.04 |
| 1904 | 6 | #1,171 | 0.05 |
| 1901 | 9 | #765 | 0.08 |
| 1900 | 8 | #1,026 | 0.05 |
| 1898 | 12 | #653 | 0.10 |
| 1897 | 10 | #712 | 0.09 |
| 1895 | 5 | #1,206 | 0.04 |
| 1894 | 7 | #929 | 0.06 |
| 1893 | 6 | #998 | 0.05 |
| 1892 | 7 | #930 | 0.06 |
| 1889 | 10 | #660 | 0.09 |
| 1888 | 10 | #685 | 0.08 |
| 1886 | 7 | #823 | 0.06 |
| 1885 | 8 | #748 | 0.07 |
| 1884 | 13 | #536 | 0.11 |
| 1883 | 11 | #583 | 0.11 |
| 1882 | 8 | #739 | 0.07 |
| 1881 | 9 | #636 | 0.09 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Orange a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 616 Americans recorded as Orange, 3% are girls and 97% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Orange: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Orange, and how old are they?
An estimated 66 Americans named Orange 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 315 people named Orange (109 women and girls, 206 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 100 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3.1 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 that rose and fell in the same decades as Orange
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 Orange and names like it
- Compare Orange and IsomBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1920sOrange peaked in 1920.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Orange since 1910.
- The top names of 1920The year the most babies were named Orange.
- Names starting with OMost given first.