Ori
Ori is given to both girls and boys: 31 girls and 76 boys were given it in 2025 (#4,524 among girls’ names and #2,002 among boys’, #3,394 among all names counting both); 1,966 Americans have been recorded with it since 1971 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,940 Americans named Ori and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 11 years old and half are between 5 and 20.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Ori by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Ori?
#2,002 among boys’ names, 2025
Ori rose from #2,515 in 2015 to #2,002 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 26.1 to 44.5 per million.
152 babies in 2024, the peak
Ori peaked in 2024, when 152 babies were given it (112 boys, #1,560 among boys’ names). The 107 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 70% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 31 | #4,524 | 76 | #2,002 |
| 2024 | 40 | #3,802 | 112 | #1,560 |
| 2023 | 29 | #4,718 | 74 | #2,040 |
| 2022 | 26 | #5,130 | 84 | #1,886 |
| 2021 | 26 | #5,058 | 51 | #2,576 |
| 2020 | 20 | #6,017 | 60 | #2,281 |
| 2019 | 20 | #6,123 | 66 | #2,164 |
| 2018 | 19 | #6,452 | 66 | #2,133 |
| 2017 | 15 | #7,746 | 52 | #2,477 |
| 2016 | 14 | #8,294 | 52 | #2,462 |
Every recorded year (50)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 8 | #12,715 | 50 | #2,515 |
| 2014 | 10 | #10,748 | 36 | #3,141 |
| 2013 | 10 | #10,816 | 53 | #2,387 |
| 2012 | 13 | #8,994 | 52 | #2,438 |
| 2011 | 7 | #14,458 | 54 | #2,368 |
| 2010 | 7 | #14,593 | 49 | #2,540 |
| 2009 | 10 | #11,275 | 45 | #2,738 |
| 2008 | under 5 | 44 | #2,776 | |
| 2007 | 10 | #11,422 | 38 | #3,067 |
| 2006 | 10 | #11,220 | 51 | #2,434 |
| 2005 | 5 | #18,459 | 32 | #3,211 |
| 2004 | 6 | #15,582 | 29 | #3,342 |
| 2003 | under 5 | 29 | #3,247 | |
| 2002 | under 5 | 23 | #3,741 | |
| 2001 | under 5 | 23 | #3,688 | |
| 2000 | 5 | #16,891 | 24 | #3,494 |
| 1999 | under 5 | 20 | #3,794 | |
| 1998 | under 5 | 27 | #2,993 | |
| 1997 | under 5 | 13 | #4,875 | |
| 1996 | under 5 | 18 | #3,780 | |
| 1995 | under 5 | 12 | #5,029 | |
| 1994 | under 5 | 17 | #3,852 | |
| 1993 | under 5 | 16 | #3,958 | |
| 1992 | under 5 | 14 | #4,262 | |
| 1991 | under 5 | 18 | #3,418 | |
| 1990 | under 5 | 14 | #4,118 | |
| 1989 | under 5 | 18 | #3,286 | |
| 1988 | under 5 | 12 | #4,090 | |
| 1987 | under 5 | 10 | #4,479 | |
| 1986 | under 5 | 15 | #3,231 | |
| 1983 | under 5 | 10 | #4,065 | |
| 1982 | under 5 | 9 | #4,488 | |
| 1981 | under 5 | 10 | #4,072 | |
| 1980 | 6 | #9,980 | under 5 | |
| 1979 | under 5 | 8 | #4,722 | |
| 1978 | under 5 | 5 | #6,502 | |
| 1977 | under 5 | 7 | #4,966 | |
| 1975 | under 5 | 6 | #5,274 | |
| 1972 | under 5 | 7 | #4,309 | |
| 1971 | under 5 | 8 | #3,863 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Ori a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,966 Americans recorded as Ori, 18% are girls and 82% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Ori: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Ori, and how old are they?
1,940 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,966 Americans ever recorded as Ori. The median Ori alive today is 11 years old; half are between 5 and 20.
The 2020 Census counted 1,597 people named Ori (300 women and girls, 1,297 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,338 born in the U.S. The Census count is 19% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census records the name people give, which for many is the short form Ori rather than the name on their birth record, and it counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 43 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 184 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 617 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,090 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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).
Where are babies named Ori born?
The states with the most babies named Ori are California, New York and Florida, with 78% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 23 | #1,227 | 1.4× |
| New York | 7 | #1,522 | 2.0× |
| Florida | 5 | #2,021 | 0.6× |
| New Jersey | 5 | #1,141 | 0.6× |
| Massachusetts | 5 | #868 | 0.4× |
Where Ori is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Ori is most over-represented in New York: since 1971 it was given 2.0 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Ori with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 7 names spelled alike, given to 6,106 babies since 1880, Ori is the second most given (32% of them). In 2025 it was given to 107 of their 124 babies (86%), the 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 Ori
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 Ori and names like it
- Compare Ori and OrieBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sOri peaked in 2024.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Ori since 1910.
- The top names of 2024The year the most babies were named Ori.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Ori alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with OMost given first.