Orissa — girls' name

What the Data Says About Orissa

The Social Security Administration has registered 61 babies named Orissa between 1917 and 2011, spanning 95 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Orissa currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2011. The name reached its historical peak in 1988, when 8 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Orissa performed strongest in the 1970s, accumulating 21 births during that ten-year window. Across the 6 decades of recorded activity, Orissa shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 6 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Orissa in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Orissa 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 61 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.