Orlo
Orlo was last recorded in 2022, when 5 babies were given it; 920 Americans have been recorded with it between 1881 and 2022 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Orlo by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Orlo?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #13,806, in 2022; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
41 babies in 1919, the peak
Orlo peaked in 1919, when 41 boys were given it, #1,074 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 5 | #13,806 | 2.9 |
| 2020 | 5 | #13,524 | 2.9 |
| 2019 | 6 | #11,761 | 3.3 |
| 2017 | 6 | #11,819 | 3.2 |
| 2016 | 5 | #13,660 | 2.6 |
| 1962 | 7 | #3,540 | 3.4 |
| 1957 | 5 | #4,392 | 2.3 |
| 1953 | 6 | #3,691 | 3.0 |
| 1952 | 7 | #3,300 | 3.6 |
| 1949 | 6 | #3,603 | 3.4 |
Every recorded year (62)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1948 | 8 | #2,946 | 4.6 |
| 1947 | 8 | #3,033 | 4.4 |
| 1946 | 12 | #2,237 | 7.4 |
| 1944 | 9 | #2,587 | 6.6 |
| 1943 | 8 | #2,905 | 5.6 |
| 1942 | 7 | #3,134 | 5.1 |
| 1941 | 15 | #1,877 | 12.2 |
| 1940 | 11 | #2,280 | 9.5 |
| 1939 | 14 | #1,941 | 12.6 |
| 1938 | 18 | #1,670 | 16.2 |
| 1937 | 17 | #1,733 | 15.9 |
| 1936 | 15 | #1,861 | 14.5 |
| 1935 | 14 | #2,003 | 13.4 |
| 1934 | 14 | #2,001 | 13.6 |
| 1933 | 21 | #1,530 | 21.2 |
| 1932 | 18 | #1,764 | 17.2 |
| 1931 | 25 | #1,419 | 24.0 |
| 1930 | 14 | #2,148 | 12.8 |
| 1929 | 25 | #1,472 | 23.2 |
| 1928 | 18 | #1,882 | 16.3 |
| 1927 | 20 | #1,782 | 17.7 |
| 1926 | 31 | #1,319 | 27.9 |
| 1925 | 30 | #1,353 | 26.9 |
| 1924 | 24 | #1,616 | 21.2 |
| 1923 | 31 | #1,313 | 28.3 |
| 1922 | 19 | #1,865 | 17.5 |
| 1921 | 37 | #1,193 | 33.6 |
| 1920 | 38 | #1,176 | 35.7 |
| 1919 | 41 | #1,074 | 41.8 |
| 1918 | 28 | #1,365 | 27.6 |
| 1917 | 33 | #1,196 | 35.7 |
| 1916 | 32 | #1,170 | 36.0 |
| 1915 | 40 | #1,011 | 47.1 |
| 1914 | 22 | #1,294 | 33.6 |
| 1913 | 25 | #1,017 | 48.8 |
| 1912 | 11 | #1,596 | 25.6 |
| 1911 | 7 | #1,500 | 31.0 |
| 1909 | 10 | #1,007 | 61.0 |
| 1906 | 7 | #1,087 | 52.6 |
| 1905 | 8 | #982 | 60.5 |
| 1904 | 6 | #1,174 | 46.8 |
| 1902 | 7 | #998 | 57.1 |
| 1897 | 7 | #912 | 62.1 |
| 1896 | 8 | #874 | 66.9 |
| 1895 | 9 | #783 | 76.7 |
| 1893 | 6 | #999 | 53.4 |
| 1892 | 6 | #1,043 | 49.2 |
| 1890 | 5 | #1,114 | 45.0 |
| 1889 | 5 | #1,074 | 45.2 |
| 1885 | 6 | #908 | 55.7 |
| 1883 | 6 | #863 | 57.3 |
| 1881 | 6 | #843 | 59.6 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Orlo a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Orlo has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 62 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Orlo: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Orlo, and how old are they?
An estimated 100 Americans named Orlo and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (11% of everyone recorded); the median is 78 years old and half are between 10 and 86. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 259 people named Orlo (0 women and girls, 259 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 143 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.8 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, Orlo is the most given (53% 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.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Orlo
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 Orlo and names like it
- Compare Orlo and OrleyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1910sOrlo peaked in 1919.
- Iowa’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Orlo since 1910.
- The top names of 1919The year the most babies were named Orlo.
- The names of the Silent GenerationMost people named Orlo alive today were born 1928-1945.
- Names starting with OMost given first.