Orey
Orey was last recorded in 1996, when 5 babies were given it; 79 Americans have been recorded with it between 1915 and 1996 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Orey by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Orey?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #10,103, in 1996; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
17 babies in 1987, the peak
Orey peaked in 1987, when 17 boys were given it, #3,033 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1996 | 5 | #10,103 | 2.6 |
| 1993 | 5 | #9,754 | 2.5 |
| 1992 | 5 | #9,422 | 2.5 |
| 1990 | 6 | #7,835 | 2.9 |
| 1989 | 13 | #4,206 | 6.5 |
| 1988 | 12 | #4,089 | 6.3 |
| 1987 | 17 | #3,033 | 9.1 |
| 1986 | 11 | #4,049 | 6.0 |
| 1915 | 5 | #4,239 | 5.9 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Orey a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Orey has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 9 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Orey: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Orey, and how old are they?
An estimated 70 Americans named Orey 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 118 people named Orey (4 women and girls, 114 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 71 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.7 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).
How common is the spelling Orey?
Orey is a less common spelling of Orie: SSA has recorded 79 Orey and 2,156 Orie since 1880.
Of these 6 names spelled alike, given to 5,118 babies since 1880, Orey is the sixth most given (1.5% of them). In 2025 none of their 124 babies recorded by SSA was a Orey (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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.
More about Orey and names like it
- Compare Orey and OrieBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sOrey peaked in 1987.
- The top names of 1987The year the most babies were named Orey.
- Names starting with OMost given first.