Orbie — boys' name

What the Data Says About Orbie

The Social Security Administration has registered 609 babies named Orbie between 1902 and 1980, spanning 79 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Orbie currently falls outside the top 1,000 boys' names for 1980. The name reached its historical peak in 1916, when 28 babies received it in a single year. Orbie is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 51 additional births since 1906.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Orbie performed strongest in the 1920s, accumulating 162 births during that ten-year window. Across the 9 decades of recorded activity, Orbie shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Alabama, which accounts for 71 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Kentucky and Oklahoma. In total, SSA state-level files list Orbie in 3 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Orbie in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 609 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.