Orla
Orla was given to 70 girls in 2025, #2,532 among girls’ names; 1,485 Americans have been recorded with it since 1880 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Orla by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Orla mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Orla is “a female given name from Irish.” Its etymology gives the senses “golden princess” (Órfhlaith) and “gold” (ór) and “princess” (flaith).
Anglicized version of Irish Órfhlaith (“golden princess”), from ór (“gold”) + flaith (“princess”).
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Orla?
#2,532 among girls’ names, 2025
Orla rose from #4,686 in 2015 to #2,532 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 16.8 to 43.6 per million.
71 babies in 2024, the peak
Orla peaked in 2024, when 71 girls were given it, #2,525 among girls’ names. The 70 births of 2025 are 99% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 70 | #2,532 | under 5 | |
| 2024 | 71 | #2,525 | under 5 | |
| 2023 | 68 | #2,609 | under 5 | |
| 2022 | 60 | #2,850 | under 5 | |
| 2021 | 56 | #2,989 | under 5 | |
| 2020 | 32 | #4,336 | under 5 | |
| 2019 | 37 | #3,983 | under 5 | |
| 2018 | 29 | #4,745 | under 5 | |
| 2017 | 19 | #6,468 | under 5 | |
| 2016 | 31 | #4,604 | under 5 |
Every recorded year (88)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 30 | #4,686 | under 5 | |
| 2014 | 29 | #4,865 | under 5 | |
| 2013 | 29 | #4,853 | under 5 | |
| 2012 | 19 | #6,807 | under 5 | |
| 2011 | 28 | #5,022 | under 5 | |
| 2010 | 22 | #6,127 | under 5 | |
| 2009 | 31 | #4,777 | under 5 | |
| 2008 | 17 | #7,656 | under 5 | |
| 2007 | 21 | #6,493 | under 5 | |
| 2006 | 14 | #8,598 | under 5 | |
| 2005 | 15 | #7,808 | under 5 | |
| 2004 | 14 | #8,121 | under 5 | |
| 2003 | 14 | #7,885 | under 5 | |
| 2002 | 17 | #6,613 | under 5 | |
| 2001 | 17 | #6,542 | under 5 | |
| 2000 | 19 | #5,878 | under 5 | |
| 1999 | 11 | #8,641 | under 5 | |
| 1998 | 7 | #12,046 | under 5 | |
| 1997 | 9 | #9,604 | under 5 | |
| 1996 | 7 | #11,457 | under 5 | |
| 1994 | 6 | #12,956 | under 5 | |
| 1992 | 6 | #12,892 | under 5 | |
| 1991 | 10 | #8,412 | under 5 | |
| 1967 | 5 | #7,540 | under 5 | |
| 1966 | 6 | #6,355 | under 5 | |
| 1965 | under 5 | 6 | #3,815 | |
| 1964 | 5 | #7,495 | under 5 | |
| 1959 | 5 | #6,952 | under 5 | |
| 1957 | 5 | #6,779 | under 5 | |
| 1956 | 5 | #6,641 | under 5 | |
| 1951 | 5 | #6,006 | under 5 | |
| 1949 | 5 | #5,829 | under 5 | |
| 1947 | 8 | #4,245 | 5 | #4,122 |
| 1945 | under 5 | 6 | #3,225 | |
| 1944 | 6 | #4,426 | 5 | #3,783 |
| 1941 | under 5 | 6 | #3,405 | |
| 1940 | 7 | #3,759 | under 5 | |
| 1938 | 6 | #4,219 | under 5 | |
| 1937 | 11 | #2,692 | under 5 | |
| 1936 | 6 | #4,043 | under 5 | |
| 1934 | 10 | #2,889 | 7 | #3,203 |
| 1933 | 10 | #2,826 | under 5 | |
| 1932 | 8 | #3,499 | under 5 | |
| 1931 | under 5 | 6 | #3,660 | |
| 1930 | 8 | #3,583 | 10 | #2,736 |
| 1929 | 9 | #3,328 | 8 | #3,172 |
| 1928 | 11 | #2,910 | 9 | #3,008 |
| 1927 | 16 | #2,318 | 10 | #2,854 |
| 1926 | 14 | #2,547 | 6 | #4,062 |
| 1925 | 8 | #3,945 | 6 | #4,075 |
| 1924 | 9 | #3,601 | 10 | #2,964 |
| 1923 | 10 | #3,304 | 11 | #2,729 |
| 1922 | 15 | #2,457 | 12 | #2,598 |
| 1921 | 11 | #3,108 | 13 | #2,472 |
| 1920 | 17 | #2,241 | 10 | #2,910 |
| 1919 | 13 | #2,612 | 9 | #3,057 |
| 1918 | 9 | #3,450 | 7 | #3,614 |
| 1917 | 11 | #2,829 | 11 | #2,525 |
| 1916 | 17 | #2,006 | 9 | #2,873 |
| 1915 | 6 | #4,139 | 7 | #3,305 |
| 1914 | 10 | #2,393 | 6 | #3,166 |
| 1913 | under 5 | 6 | #2,715 | |
| 1912 | under 5 | 7 | #2,206 | |
| 1910 | 5 | #2,693 | under 5 | |
| 1904 | 5 | #2,100 | under 5 | |
| 1900 | under 5 | 6 | #1,274 | |
| 1899 | 6 | #1,543 | 6 | #1,019 |
| 1898 | 5 | #1,896 | 5 | #1,255 |
| 1894 | under 5 | 8 | #839 | |
| 1892 | 6 | #1,410 | under 5 | |
| 1891 | under 5 | 5 | #1,085 | |
| 1890 | under 5 | 10 | #657 | |
| 1887 | under 5 | 8 | #728 | |
| 1885 | under 5 | 6 | #906 | |
| 1884 | under 5 | 7 | #827 | |
| 1882 | under 5 | 6 | #916 | |
| 1881 | under 5 | 6 | #842 | |
| 1880 | under 5 | 5 | #1,026 |
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 Orla a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,485 Americans recorded as Orla, 81% are girls and 19% boys. In 2025 it went to 70 girls; SSA lists no boys with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Orla: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Orla, and how old are they?
An estimated 934 Americans named Orla and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (63% of everyone recorded); the median is 10 years old and half are between 4 and 20. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 1,001 people named Orla (865 women and girls, 136 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 625 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.6 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 7 names spelled alike, given to 9,908 babies since 1880, Orla is the second most given (15% of them). In 2025 it was given to 70 of their 143 babies (49%), 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.
More about Orla and names like it
- Compare Orla and OraliaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
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- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Orla since 1910.
- Irish namesWiktionary’s origin for Orla: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2024The year the most babies were named Orla.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Orla alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with OMost given first.