Orpha
Orpha was last recorded in 2024, when 6 babies were given it; 5,974 Americans have been recorded with it between 1880 and 2024 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Orpha by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Orpha?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #14,845, in 2024; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
204 babies in 1917, the peak
Orpha peaked in 1917, when 204 girls were given it, #451 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 6 | #14,845 | under 0.01 |
| 2016 | 5 | #18,179 | under 0.01 |
| 2012 | 6 | #16,360 | under 0.01 |
| 2008 | 6 | #16,949 | under 0.01 |
| 2006 | 5 | #19,298 | under 0.01 |
| 2004 | 5 | #18,103 | under 0.01 |
| 2003 | 5 | #17,697 | under 0.01 |
| 1993 | 5 | #15,104 | under 0.01 |
| 1989 | 6 | #11,899 | under 0.01 |
| 1988 | 6 | #11,333 | under 0.01 |
Every recorded year (111)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1987 | 5 | #12,658 | under 0.01 |
| 1984 | 7 | #8,851 | under 0.01 |
| 1983 | 9 | #7,113 | 0.01 |
| 1980 | 6 | #9,983 | under 0.01 |
| 1977 | 6 | #9,287 | under 0.01 |
| 1976 | 8 | #7,077 | 0.01 |
| 1975 | 5 | #10,131 | under 0.01 |
| 1974 | 7 | #7,442 | under 0.01 |
| 1973 | 5 | #9,363 | under 0.01 |
| 1972 | 6 | #7,944 | under 0.01 |
| 1971 | 6 | #8,041 | under 0.01 |
| 1970 | 13 | #4,416 | 0.01 |
| 1969 | 8 | #5,825 | under 0.01 |
| 1968 | 6 | #6,784 | under 0.01 |
| 1967 | 11 | #4,224 | 0.01 |
| 1965 | 8 | #5,167 | under 0.01 |
| 1964 | 9 | #4,890 | under 0.01 |
| 1963 | 12 | #3,966 | 0.01 |
| 1962 | 11 | #4,201 | 0.01 |
| 1961 | 6 | #6,363 | under 0.01 |
| 1960 | 10 | #4,381 | under 0.01 |
| 1959 | 14 | #3,381 | 0.01 |
| 1958 | 9 | #4,420 | under 0.01 |
| 1957 | 9 | #4,459 | under 0.01 |
| 1956 | 16 | #3,018 | 0.01 |
| 1955 | 13 | #3,334 | 0.01 |
| 1954 | 25 | #2,173 | 0.01 |
| 1953 | 19 | #2,487 | 0.01 |
| 1952 | 16 | #2,764 | 0.01 |
| 1951 | 16 | #2,667 | 0.01 |
| 1950 | 20 | #2,232 | 0.01 |
| 1949 | 25 | #1,952 | 0.01 |
| 1948 | 26 | #1,890 | 0.02 |
| 1947 | 31 | #1,746 | 0.02 |
| 1946 | 28 | #1,707 | 0.02 |
| 1945 | 17 | #2,130 | 0.01 |
| 1944 | 21 | #1,899 | 0.02 |
| 1943 | 31 | #1,516 | 0.02 |
| 1942 | 43 | #1,224 | 0.03 |
| 1941 | 35 | #1,305 | 0.03 |
| 1940 | 32 | #1,337 | 0.03 |
| 1939 | 45 | #1,072 | 0.04 |
| 1938 | 42 | #1,124 | 0.04 |
| 1937 | 37 | #1,192 | 0.03 |
| 1936 | 51 | #966 | 0.05 |
| 1935 | 64 | #864 | 0.06 |
| 1934 | 58 | #900 | 0.06 |
| 1933 | 82 | #730 | 0.08 |
| 1932 | 78 | #767 | 0.07 |
| 1931 | 74 | #792 | 0.07 |
| 1930 | 80 | #793 | 0.07 |
| 1929 | 87 | #756 | 0.08 |
| 1928 | 99 | #714 | 0.09 |
| 1927 | 130 | #628 | 0.11 |
| 1926 | 115 | #681 | 0.10 |
| 1925 | 115 | #687 | 0.09 |
| 1924 | 143 | #630 | 0.11 |
| 1923 | 129 | #653 | 0.11 |
| 1922 | 141 | #617 | 0.12 |
| 1921 | 163 | #563 | 0.13 |
| 1920 | 185 | #514 | 0.15 |
| 1919 | 141 | #595 | 0.12 |
| 1918 | 181 | #509 | 0.16 |
| 1917 | 204 | #451 | 0.19 |
| 1916 | 192 | #462 | 0.18 |
| 1915 | 195 | #438 | 0.20 |
| 1914 | 126 | #500 | 0.17 |
| 1913 | 109 | #489 | 0.17 |
| 1912 | 104 | #471 | 0.19 |
| 1911 | 69 | #500 | 0.16 |
| 1910 | 83 | #438 | 0.21 |
| 1909 | 76 | #423 | 0.22 |
| 1908 | 77 | #412 | 0.23 |
| 1907 | 78 | #402 | 0.24 |
| 1906 | 68 | #414 | 0.23 |
| 1905 | 71 | #403 | 0.24 |
| 1904 | 74 | #383 | 0.27 |
| 1903 | 83 | #349 | 0.32 |
| 1902 | 80 | #359 | 0.30 |
| 1901 | 82 | #340 | 0.34 |
| 1900 | 94 | #342 | 0.31 |
| 1899 | 86 | #324 | 0.37 |
| 1898 | 84 | #341 | 0.32 |
| 1897 | 76 | #338 | 0.32 |
| 1896 | 67 | #356 | 0.28 |
| 1895 | 85 | #316 | 0.36 |
| 1894 | 81 | #308 | 0.36 |
| 1893 | 66 | #333 | 0.31 |
| 1892 | 77 | #310 | 0.36 |
| 1891 | 82 | #275 | 0.44 |
| 1890 | 69 | #300 | 0.36 |
| 1889 | 42 | #377 | 0.24 |
| 1888 | 60 | #309 | 0.34 |
| 1887 | 50 | #306 | 0.34 |
| 1886 | 47 | #303 | 0.33 |
| 1885 | 57 | #263 | 0.43 |
| 1884 | 48 | #280 | 0.37 |
| 1883 | 40 | #280 | 0.36 |
| 1882 | 34 | #305 | 0.32 |
| 1881 | 24 | #334 | 0.26 |
| 1880 | 29 | #293 | 0.32 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Orpha a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Orpha has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 111 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Orpha: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Orpha, and how old are they?
An estimated 629 Americans named Orpha and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (11% of everyone recorded); the median is 76 years old and half are between 61 and 86. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 1,063 people named Orpha (1,057 women and girls, 6 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 907 born in the U.S. The Census count is 17% above 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 Orpha born?
The states with the most babies named Orpha are Pennsylvania, West Virginia and Kentucky, with 39% of its births recorded by state since 1910; West Virginia and Kentucky are not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pennsylvania | 361 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| West Virginia | 309 | not ranked | 4.4× |
| Kentucky | 173 | not ranked | 1.6× |
| Ohio | 160 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Indiana | 157 | not ranked | 1.5× |
| Oklahoma | 130 | not ranked | 1.5× |
| Minnesota | 124 | not ranked | 1.4× |
| Missouri | 106 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Kansas | 94 | not ranked | 1.6× |
| Iowa | 91 | not ranked | 1.1× |
Where Orpha is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Orpha is most over-represented in West Virginia: since 1910 it was given 4.4 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 girls’ 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 Orpha 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 2 names spelled alike, given to 6,075 babies since 1880, Orpha is the most given (98% 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 Orpha
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 Orpha and names like it
- Compare Orpha and OrphiaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1910sOrpha peaked in 1917.
- Pennsylvania’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Orpha since 1910.
- The top names of 1917The year the most babies were named Orpha.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Orpha alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with OMost given first.