Orlie
Orlie was last recorded in 1961, when 5 babies were given it; 357 Americans have been recorded with it between 1885 and 1961 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Orlie by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Orlie?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #4,488, in 1961; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
20 babies in 1918, the peak
Orlie peaked in 1918, when 20 boys were given it, #1,752 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 5 | #4,488 | 2.4 |
| 1957 | 6 | #3,864 | 2.8 |
| 1956 | 6 | #3,825 | 2.8 |
| 1952 | 5 | #4,117 | 2.6 |
| 1950 | 7 | #3,241 | 3.9 |
| 1944 | 5 | #3,785 | 3.7 |
| 1943 | 6 | #3,463 | 4.2 |
| 1942 | 5 | #3,930 | 3.6 |
| 1941 | 9 | #2,606 | 7.3 |
| 1940 | 7 | #3,052 | 6.0 |
Every recorded year (39)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1939 | 7 | #3,045 | 6.3 |
| 1938 | 9 | #2,601 | 8.1 |
| 1936 | 6 | #3,436 | 5.8 |
| 1935 | 8 | #2,882 | 7.7 |
| 1934 | 5 | #4,072 | 4.8 |
| 1933 | 12 | #2,186 | 12.1 |
| 1932 | 7 | #3,286 | 6.7 |
| 1931 | 7 | #3,314 | 6.7 |
| 1930 | 10 | #2,737 | 9.1 |
| 1929 | 8 | #3,173 | 7.4 |
| 1928 | 6 | #4,022 | 5.4 |
| 1926 | 11 | #2,682 | 9.9 |
| 1925 | 13 | #2,395 | 11.6 |
| 1924 | 10 | #2,965 | 8.8 |
| 1923 | 16 | #2,093 | 14.6 |
| 1922 | 8 | #3,459 | 7.4 |
| 1921 | 19 | #1,877 | 17.3 |
| 1920 | 15 | #2,197 | 14.1 |
| 1919 | 12 | #2,471 | 12.2 |
| 1918 | 20 | #1,752 | 19.7 |
| 1917 | 13 | #2,251 | 14.0 |
| 1916 | 11 | #2,498 | 12.4 |
| 1915 | 13 | #2,145 | 15.3 |
| 1914 | 11 | #2,068 | 16.8 |
| 1913 | 5 | #3,141 | 9.8 |
| 1912 | 7 | #2,208 | 16.3 |
| 1910 | 5 | #1,780 | 25.7 |
| 1894 | 5 | #1,193 | 43.2 |
| 1885 | 5 | #1,058 | 46.4 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Orlie a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 357 Americans recorded as Orlie, 3% are girls and 97% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Orlie: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Orlie, and how old are they?
An estimated 39 Americans named Orlie and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026, too few to state an age range. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 168 people named Orlie (59 women and girls, 109 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 62 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.7 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 3 names spelled alike, given to 1,736 babies since 1880, Orlie is the third most given (21% of them).
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 Orlie and names like it
- Compare Orlie and OrloBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1910sOrlie peaked in 1918.
- The top names of 1918The year the most babies were named Orlie.
- Names starting with OMost given first.