Orma
Orma was last recorded in 1950, when 8 babies were given it; 699 Americans have been recorded with it between 1890 and 1950 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Orma by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Orma?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #4,222, in 1950; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
32 babies in 1921, the peak
Orma peaked in 1921, when 32 girls were given it, #1,468 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1950 | 8 | #4,222 | 4.7 |
| 1948 | 8 | #4,118 | 4.7 |
| 1947 | 10 | #3,639 | 5.6 |
| 1946 | 6 | #4,825 | 3.8 |
| 1945 | 8 | #3,606 | 6.1 |
| 1944 | 5 | #5,075 | 3.8 |
| 1943 | 8 | #3,739 | 5.7 |
| 1942 | 9 | #3,369 | 6.7 |
| 1941 | 10 | #2,993 | 8.3 |
| 1940 | 11 | #2,694 | 9.6 |
Every recorded year (52)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1939 | 12 | #2,546 | 10.9 |
| 1938 | 6 | #4,220 | 5.4 |
| 1937 | 15 | #2,163 | 14.1 |
| 1936 | 9 | #3,041 | 8.7 |
| 1935 | 12 | #2,540 | 11.4 |
| 1934 | 14 | #2,262 | 13.4 |
| 1933 | 8 | #3,338 | 7.9 |
| 1932 | 20 | #1,800 | 18.7 |
| 1931 | 11 | #2,713 | 10.3 |
| 1930 | 22 | #1,740 | 19.5 |
| 1929 | 19 | #1,939 | 17.0 |
| 1928 | 27 | #1,576 | 23.4 |
| 1927 | 22 | #1,870 | 18.4 |
| 1926 | 18 | #2,135 | 15.2 |
| 1925 | 22 | #1,879 | 18.1 |
| 1924 | 24 | #1,799 | 19.2 |
| 1923 | 22 | #1,884 | 18.2 |
| 1922 | 18 | #2,172 | 15.0 |
| 1921 | 32 | #1,468 | 26.0 |
| 1920 | 27 | #1,617 | 22.5 |
| 1919 | 20 | #1,907 | 17.7 |
| 1918 | 18 | #2,083 | 15.5 |
| 1917 | 27 | #1,465 | 25.0 |
| 1916 | 28 | #1,399 | 26.8 |
| 1915 | 23 | #1,560 | 23.4 |
| 1914 | 18 | #1,591 | 23.6 |
| 1913 | 14 | #1,656 | 22.4 |
| 1912 | 9 | #2,099 | 16.1 |
| 1911 | 10 | #1,625 | 23.9 |
| 1910 | 6 | #2,343 | 15.1 |
| 1909 | 5 | #2,463 | 14.4 |
| 1907 | 7 | #1,773 | 22.0 |
| 1906 | 7 | #1,682 | 23.7 |
| 1905 | 20 | #844 | 68.6 |
| 1904 | 5 | #2,101 | 18.2 |
| 1903 | 7 | #1,547 | 26.7 |
| 1902 | 5 | #1,974 | 18.9 |
| 1899 | 6 | #1,544 | 25.7 |
| 1896 | 5 | #1,760 | 21.0 |
| 1892 | 5 | #1,608 | 23.5 |
| 1891 | 5 | #1,489 | 27.0 |
| 1890 | 6 | #1,308 | 31.5 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Orma a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Orma has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 52 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Orma: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Orma, and how old are they?
An estimated 77 Americans named Orma 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 211 people named Orma (192 women and girls, 19 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 134 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 that rose and fell in the same decades as Orma
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 Orma and names like it
- Compare Orma and AllineBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1920sOrma peaked in 1921.
- Ohio’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Orma since 1910.
- The top names of 1921The year the most babies were named Orma.
- Names starting with OMost given first.