Orquidea — girls' name
55 babies named Orquidea in U.S. Social Security records since 1977, with the highest year being 1990. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
49% of everyone ever named Orquidea was born in this single decade.
8 babies were named Orquidea in 1990 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Orquidea
The Social Security Administration has registered 55 babies named Orquidea between 1977 and 2017, spanning 41 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Orquidea currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2017. The name reached its historical peak in 1990, when 8 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Orquidea performed strongest in the 1990s, accumulating 27 births during that ten-year window. Across the 4 decades of recorded activity, Orquidea shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 5 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Orquidea in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Orquidea in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 55 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.
Orquidea at a glance
Last recorded 2017Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Orquidea popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2017–1977
- Peak year (1990)
- 8
- Annual births at peak — across 41 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2017.
55 total births across 41 years of SSA records. Peaked in 1990 with 8 births in a single year.
Orquidea by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 1990s
- 27 births that decade — 49% of Orquidea's all-time total
Orquidea decade highlights
- Peak decade 27 births
- Runner-up 12 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
1990s was Orquidea's strongest decade
27 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 49% of all-time use.
Orquidea by state
Where Orquidea concentrates geographically — total births since 1977
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | California | | 5 | 9.1% |
5 of 55 births nationwide.
Top 5 states
- California 9.1% of nationwide
Recorded in 1 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
California accounts for 9.1% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1977–2017 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.