Orhan
Orhan was given to 92 boys in 2025, #1,763 among boys’ names; 477 Americans have been recorded with it since 1997 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Orhan by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Orhan mean?
Wiktionary, Turkish section
Orhan is “a male given name meaning “administrator of a city””
From Ottoman Turkish اورخان, from Proto-Turkic [Term?].
Meaning: Wiktionary, Turkish section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Orhan?
#1,763 among boys’ names, 2025
Orhan rose from #7,887 in 2015 to #1,763 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 5.2 to 53.9 per million.
92 babies in 2025, the peak
Orhan peaked in 2025, when 92 boys were given it, #1,763 among boys’ names. In 2024 it went to 65 boys.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 92 | #1,763 | 53.9 |
| 2024 | 65 | #2,228 | 37.7 |
| 2023 | 69 | #2,119 | 40.3 |
| 2022 | 81 | #1,933 | 46.4 |
| 2021 | 22 | #4,590 | 12.6 |
| 2020 | 16 | #5,628 | 9.3 |
| 2019 | 14 | #6,318 | 7.8 |
| 2018 | 9 | #8,637 | 5.0 |
| 2017 | 9 | #8,643 | 4.9 |
| 2016 | 9 | #8,628 | 4.7 |
Every recorded year (21)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 10 | #7,887 | 5.2 |
| 2014 | 12 | #6,948 | 6.2 |
| 2013 | 7 | #10,430 | 3.7 |
| 2012 | 9 | #8,681 | 4.7 |
| 2010 | 5 | #13,724 | 2.6 |
| 2009 | 7 | #10,666 | 3.5 |
| 2008 | 9 | #8,818 | 4.4 |
| 2007 | 11 | #7,452 | 5.3 |
| 2006 | 9 | #8,550 | 4.4 |
| 2005 | 7 | #9,853 | 3.5 |
| 1997 | 5 | #10,370 | 2.7 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Orhan a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Orhan has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 21 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Orhan: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Orhan, and how old are they?
An estimated 473 Americans named Orhan and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 4 years old and half are between 2 and 7. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 539 people named Orhan (3 women and girls, 536 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 135 born in the U.S. The Census count is 4.0 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 spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 52,560 babies since 1880, Orhan is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 92 of their 1,505 babies (6.1%), the third most given that year.
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.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Orhan
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 Orhan and names like it
- Compare Orhan and OrionBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sOrhan peaked in 2025.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Orhan since 1910.
- Turkish namesWiktionary’s origin for Orhan: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2025The year the most babies were named Orhan.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Orhan alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with OMost given first.