Orestes — boys' name

What the Data Says About Orestes

The Social Security Administration has registered 343 babies named Orestes between 1918 and 2019, spanning 102 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Orestes currently falls outside the top 1,000 boys' names for 2019. The name reached its historical peak in 1986, when 14 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Orestes performed strongest in the 1970s, accumulating 76 births during that ten-year window. Across the 8 decades of recorded activity, Orestes shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Florida, which accounts for 30 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by New York. In total, SSA state-level files list Orestes in 2 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Orestes 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 343 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.