Orla — #2503 US unisex name

What the Data Says About Orla

The Social Security Administration has registered 1,129 babies named Orla between 1892 and 2024, spanning 133 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Orla currently holds the #2503 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2024, when 71 babies received it in a single year. Orla is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 286 additional births since 1880.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Orla performed strongest in the 2020s, accumulating 287 births during that ten-year window. Across the 12 decades of recorded activity, Orla shows a stable profile with only moderate drift from its peak decade. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 80 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California and Massachusetts. In total, SSA state-level files list Orla in 8 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Orla 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 1,129 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.