Orian
Orian is given to both girls and boys: 5 girls and 15 boys were given it in 2025 (#16,651 among girls’ names and #6,065 among boys’, #10,537 among all names counting both); 816 Americans have been recorded with it since 1912 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Orian by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Orian?
#6,065 among boys’ names, 2025
Orian fell from #5,220 in 2015 to #6,065 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 9.4 to 8.8 per million.
39 babies in 2018, the peak
Orian peaked in 2018, when 39 babies were given it (33 boys, #3,423 among boys’ names). The 20 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 51% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #16,651 | 15 | #6,065 |
| 2024 | under 5 | 20 | #5,003 | |
| 2023 | under 5 | 9 | #8,737 | |
| 2022 | 11 | #9,514 | 14 | #6,384 |
| 2021 | under 5 | 13 | #6,574 | |
| 2020 | under 5 | 18 | #5,174 | |
| 2019 | under 5 | 22 | #4,597 | |
| 2018 | 6 | #15,182 | 33 | #3,423 |
| 2017 | under 5 | 26 | #4,068 | |
| 2016 | under 5 | 18 | #5,263 |
Every recorded year (64)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | under 5 | 18 | #5,220 | |
| 2014 | under 5 | 12 | #6,949 | |
| 2013 | 5 | #18,592 | 16 | #5,573 |
| 2012 | under 5 | 16 | #5,648 | |
| 2011 | under 5 | 17 | #5,365 | |
| 2010 | 9 | #12,016 | 13 | #6,605 |
| 2009 | under 5 | 23 | #4,391 | |
| 2008 | 6 | #16,946 | 21 | #4,659 |
| 2007 | under 5 | 14 | #6,174 | |
| 2006 | 6 | #16,602 | 25 | #3,963 |
| 2005 | 10 | #10,724 | 18 | #4,776 |
| 2004 | under 5 | 13 | #6,045 | |
| 2003 | 5 | #17,696 | 11 | #6,597 |
| 2002 | 5 | #17,421 | 13 | #5,636 |
| 2001 | under 5 | 6 | #10,183 | |
| 2000 | 5 | #16,892 | 17 | #4,510 |
| 1999 | 7 | #12,316 | 15 | #4,695 |
| 1998 | under 5 | 15 | #4,578 | |
| 1997 | under 5 | 10 | #5,971 | |
| 1996 | under 5 | 6 | #8,700 | |
| 1994 | under 5 | 8 | #6,800 | |
| 1993 | under 5 | 6 | #8,390 | |
| 1992 | under 5 | 8 | #6,518 | |
| 1990 | under 5 | 5 | #9,108 | |
| 1988 | under 5 | 6 | #7,009 | |
| 1987 | under 5 | 5 | #7,803 | |
| 1984 | under 5 | 6 | #6,110 | |
| 1983 | under 5 | 5 | #7,002 | |
| 1982 | under 5 | 8 | #4,878 | |
| 1980 | under 5 | 10 | #4,050 | |
| 1979 | under 5 | 11 | #3,749 | |
| 1974 | under 5 | 6 | #5,073 | |
| 1970 | under 5 | 6 | #4,584 | |
| 1946 | under 5 | 8 | #2,842 | |
| 1940 | under 5 | 5 | #3,808 | |
| 1938 | under 5 | 5 | #3,901 | |
| 1936 | under 5 | 7 | #3,077 | |
| 1935 | under 5 | 7 | #3,175 | |
| 1931 | under 5 | 8 | #3,031 | |
| 1928 | 6 | #4,584 | 5 | #4,578 |
| 1926 | under 5 | 13 | #2,391 | |
| 1925 | under 5 | 9 | #3,082 | |
| 1924 | under 5 | 8 | #3,426 | |
| 1923 | under 5 | 6 | #4,123 | |
| 1921 | under 5 | 9 | #3,156 | |
| 1920 | 5 | #5,582 | 7 | #3,731 |
| 1919 | under 5 | 7 | #3,653 | |
| 1918 | under 5 | 6 | #4,047 | |
| 1917 | under 5 | 6 | #3,862 | |
| 1916 | under 5 | 9 | #2,872 | |
| 1915 | under 5 | 6 | #3,718 | |
| 1914 | under 5 | 6 | #3,164 | |
| 1913 | under 5 | 5 | #3,140 | |
| 1912 | under 5 | 6 | #2,476 |
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 Orian a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 816 Americans recorded as Orian, 11% are girls and 89% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Orian: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Orian, and how old are they?
An estimated 654 Americans named Orian and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (80% of everyone recorded); the median is 17 years old and half are between 8 and 26. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 703 people named Orian (154 women and girls, 549 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 567 born in the U.S. The Census count is 24% above 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 52,899 babies since 1880, Orian is the eighth most given (1.5% of them). In 2025 it was given to 20 of their 1,433 babies (1.4%), the sixth 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 Orian
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 Orian and names like it
- Compare Orian and OrionBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sOrian peaked in 2018.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Orian since 1910.
- The top names of 2018The year the most babies were named Orian.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Orian alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with OMost given first.