Orlin
Orlin was given to 22 boys in 2025, #4,661 among boys’ names; 1,683 Americans have been recorded with it since 1908 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Orlin by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Orlin?
#4,661 among boys’ names, 2025
Orlin rose from #5,221 in 2015 to #4,661 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 9.4 to 12.9 per million.
48 babies in 1932, the peak
Orlin peaked in 1932, when 48 boys were given it, #947 among boys’ names. The 22 births of 2025 are 46% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 22 | #4,661 | 12.9 |
| 2024 | 25 | #4,293 | 14.5 |
| 2023 | 14 | #6,424 | 8.2 |
| 2022 | 20 | #4,971 | 11.5 |
| 2021 | 13 | #6,575 | 7.4 |
| 2020 | 20 | #4,812 | 11.6 |
| 2019 | 20 | #4,920 | 11.1 |
| 2018 | 16 | #5,713 | 8.8 |
| 2017 | 10 | #7,982 | 5.4 |
| 2016 | 19 | #5,081 | 10.0 |
Every recorded year (96)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 18 | #5,221 | 9.4 |
| 2014 | 21 | #4,654 | 10.9 |
| 2013 | 13 | #6,508 | 6.9 |
| 2012 | 9 | #8,683 | 4.7 |
| 2011 | 10 | #7,916 | 5.3 |
| 2010 | 9 | #8,604 | 4.7 |
| 2009 | 12 | #7,119 | 6.0 |
| 2008 | 20 | #4,849 | 9.8 |
| 2007 | 18 | #5,150 | 8.7 |
| 2006 | 13 | #6,359 | 6.3 |
| 2005 | 11 | #6,981 | 5.5 |
| 2004 | 12 | #6,406 | 6.0 |
| 2003 | 6 | #10,508 | 3.0 |
| 2002 | 5 | #11,970 | 2.6 |
| 2001 | 7 | #8,966 | 3.6 |
| 2000 | 9 | #7,238 | 4.6 |
| 1999 | 11 | #5,935 | 5.7 |
| 1998 | 6 | #9,308 | 3.1 |
| 1993 | 10 | #5,666 | 5.1 |
| 1989 | 6 | #7,642 | 3.0 |
| 1986 | 5 | #7,510 | 2.7 |
| 1983 | 5 | #7,004 | 2.8 |
| 1981 | 7 | #5,329 | 3.9 |
| 1978 | 5 | #6,503 | 3.0 |
| 1977 | 6 | #5,654 | 3.7 |
| 1976 | 5 | #6,234 | 3.2 |
| 1974 | 8 | #4,086 | 5.1 |
| 1972 | 7 | #4,311 | 4.3 |
| 1971 | 6 | #4,765 | 3.4 |
| 1969 | 5 | #4,839 | 2.8 |
| 1966 | 5 | #4,368 | 2.8 |
| 1965 | 8 | #3,175 | 4.3 |
| 1964 | 7 | #3,519 | 3.5 |
| 1963 | 8 | #3,253 | 3.9 |
| 1962 | 8 | #3,231 | 3.9 |
| 1961 | 6 | #3,943 | 2.8 |
| 1960 | 7 | #3,562 | 3.3 |
| 1959 | 6 | #3,883 | 2.8 |
| 1958 | 8 | #3,205 | 3.8 |
| 1957 | 10 | #2,777 | 4.6 |
| 1956 | 5 | #4,321 | 2.4 |
| 1955 | 19 | #1,834 | 9.2 |
| 1954 | 5 | #4,216 | 2.5 |
| 1953 | 14 | #2,162 | 7.1 |
| 1952 | 14 | #2,132 | 7.2 |
| 1951 | 12 | #2,337 | 6.4 |
| 1950 | 11 | #2,402 | 6.1 |
| 1949 | 11 | #2,422 | 6.2 |
| 1948 | 21 | #1,645 | 12.0 |
| 1947 | 12 | #2,329 | 6.6 |
| 1946 | 12 | #2,236 | 7.4 |
| 1945 | 21 | #1,483 | 15.6 |
| 1944 | 22 | #1,468 | 16.1 |
| 1943 | 24 | #1,451 | 16.8 |
| 1942 | 24 | #1,455 | 17.4 |
| 1941 | 24 | #1,401 | 19.5 |
| 1940 | 27 | #1,302 | 23.3 |
| 1939 | 18 | #1,616 | 16.3 |
| 1938 | 18 | #1,669 | 16.2 |
| 1937 | 30 | #1,225 | 28.1 |
| 1936 | 33 | #1,161 | 31.8 |
| 1935 | 34 | #1,142 | 32.6 |
| 1934 | 30 | #1,234 | 29.1 |
| 1933 | 27 | #1,300 | 27.2 |
| 1932 | 48 | #947 | 46.0 |
| 1931 | 32 | #1,235 | 30.8 |
| 1930 | 30 | #1,323 | 27.3 |
| 1929 | 35 | #1,189 | 32.5 |
| 1928 | 29 | #1,374 | 26.2 |
| 1927 | 29 | #1,397 | 25.7 |
| 1926 | 39 | #1,155 | 35.1 |
| 1925 | 39 | #1,139 | 34.9 |
| 1924 | 36 | #1,218 | 31.8 |
| 1923 | 42 | #1,112 | 38.3 |
| 1922 | 39 | #1,153 | 35.8 |
| 1921 | 34 | #1,263 | 30.9 |
| 1920 | 38 | #1,175 | 35.7 |
| 1919 | 29 | #1,341 | 29.6 |
| 1918 | 33 | #1,226 | 32.6 |
| 1917 | 29 | #1,287 | 31.3 |
| 1916 | 36 | #1,093 | 40.4 |
| 1915 | 26 | #1,331 | 30.6 |
| 1914 | 22 | #1,293 | 33.6 |
| 1913 | 15 | #1,424 | 29.3 |
| 1912 | 12 | #1,501 | 27.9 |
| 1908 | 6 | #1,330 | 38.9 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Orlin a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Orlin has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 96 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Orlin: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Orlin, and how old are they?
An estimated 677 Americans named Orlin and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (40% of everyone recorded); the median is 22 years old and half are between 10 and 69. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 1,506 people named Orlin (31 women and girls, 1,475 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 675 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.2 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).
Where are babies named Orlin born?
The states with the most babies named Orlin are Minnesota, Texas and Wisconsin, with 76% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Minnesota and Wisconsin are not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Minnesota | 106 | not ranked | 2.9× |
| Texas | 42 | #1,727 | 0.4× |
| Wisconsin | 41 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Iowa | 23 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| North Dakota | 21 | not ranked | 2.2× |
| South Dakota | 10 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Kansas | 5 | not ranked | 0.2× |
Where Orlin is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Orlin is most over-represented in Minnesota: since 1910 it was given 2.9 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Orlin with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 4 names spelled alike, given to 3,189 babies since 1880, Orlin is the most given (53% of them). In 2025 it was given to 22 of their 29 babies (76%), again the most given.
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 Orlin
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 Orlin and names like it
- Compare Orlin and OrlanBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1930sOrlin peaked in 1932.
- Minnesota’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Orlin since 1910.
- The top names of 1932The year the most babies were named Orlin.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Orlin alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with OMost given first.