Ordie — boys' name
26 babies named Ordie in U.S. Social Security records since 1915, with the highest year being 1923. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
42% of everyone ever named Ordie was born in this single decade.
6 babies were named Ordie in 1923 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Ordie
The Social Security Administration has registered 26 babies named Ordie between 1915 and 1975, spanning 61 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Ordie currently falls outside the top 1,000 boys' names for 1975. The name reached its historical peak in 1923, when 6 babies received it in a single year. Ordie is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 5 additional births since 1922.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Ordie performed strongest in the 1920s, accumulating 11 births during that ten-year window. Across the 3 decades of recorded activity, Ordie shows notable generational variation in parental adoption.
No etymological entry is currently available for Ordie 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 26 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.
Ordie at a glance
Last recorded 1975Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Ordie popularity over time — boys
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1975–1915
- Peak year (1923)
- 6
- Annual births at peak — across 61 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 1975.
26 total births across 61 years of SSA records. Peaked in 1923 with 6 births in a single year.
Ordie popularity over time — girls
5 total births recorded since 1922 (Ordie as girls' name)
Unisex use remains the minority pattern
The girls' variant of Ordie accounts for 16% of total recorded use across both genders.
Ordie by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 1920s
- 11 births that decade — 42% of Ordie's all-time total
Ordie decade highlights
- Peak decade 11 births
- Runner-up 10 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
1920s was Ordie's strongest decade
11 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 42% of all-time use.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1915–1975 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.