Orren
Orren was given to 7 boys in 2025, #10,403 among boys’ names; 925 Americans have been recorded with it since 1880 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Orren by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Orren mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Orren is “a male given name.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Orren?
#10,403 among boys’ names, 2025
Orren fell from #9,337 in 2015 to #10,403 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 4.2 to 4.1 per million.
28 babies in 1923, the peak
Orren peaked in 1923, when 28 boys were given it, #1,410 among boys’ names. The 7 births of 2025 are 25% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 7 | #10,403 | 4.1 |
| 2024 | 9 | #8,800 | 5.2 |
| 2023 | 17 | #5,600 | 9.9 |
| 2022 | 9 | #8,803 | 5.2 |
| 2021 | 9 | #8,652 | 5.1 |
| 2020 | 6 | #11,627 | 3.5 |
| 2019 | 5 | #13,604 | 2.8 |
| 2018 | 12 | #7,008 | 6.6 |
| 2017 | 10 | #7,983 | 5.4 |
| 2016 | 5 | #13,661 | 2.6 |
Every recorded year (98)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 8 | #9,337 | 4.2 |
| 2014 | 10 | #7,962 | 5.2 |
| 2013 | 8 | #9,423 | 4.2 |
| 2012 | 10 | #7,971 | 5.3 |
| 2011 | 8 | #9,372 | 4.2 |
| 2010 | 9 | #8,605 | 4.7 |
| 2009 | 8 | #9,633 | 4.0 |
| 2008 | 8 | #9,616 | 3.9 |
| 2007 | 10 | #8,008 | 4.8 |
| 2006 | 7 | #10,356 | 3.4 |
| 2005 | 9 | #8,118 | 4.5 |
| 2004 | 7 | #9,667 | 3.5 |
| 2002 | 5 | #11,972 | 2.6 |
| 2000 | 5 | #11,669 | 2.5 |
| 1999 | 7 | #8,468 | 3.6 |
| 1998 | 7 | #8,203 | 3.7 |
| 1997 | 6 | #8,955 | 3.2 |
| 1995 | 7 | #7,568 | 3.7 |
| 1993 | 5 | #9,758 | 2.5 |
| 1991 | 5 | #9,213 | 2.5 |
| 1988 | 10 | #4,684 | 5.2 |
| 1987 | 8 | #5,309 | 4.3 |
| 1985 | 11 | #3,966 | 6.0 |
| 1984 | 6 | #6,114 | 3.3 |
| 1982 | 8 | #4,879 | 4.4 |
| 1979 | 5 | #6,769 | 2.9 |
| 1972 | 8 | #3,869 | 4.9 |
| 1971 | 7 | #4,259 | 4.0 |
| 1970 | 8 | #3,741 | 4.3 |
| 1968 | 5 | #4,576 | 2.9 |
| 1967 | 7 | #3,462 | 4.0 |
| 1966 | 6 | #3,821 | 3.4 |
| 1965 | 7 | #3,466 | 3.8 |
| 1963 | 5 | #4,461 | 2.5 |
| 1961 | 5 | #4,491 | 2.4 |
| 1960 | 7 | #3,563 | 3.3 |
| 1959 | 8 | #3,212 | 3.7 |
| 1958 | 7 | #3,488 | 3.3 |
| 1956 | 11 | #2,601 | 5.2 |
| 1955 | 5 | #4,241 | 2.4 |
| 1954 | 5 | #4,218 | 2.5 |
| 1953 | 6 | #3,692 | 3.0 |
| 1952 | 6 | #3,634 | 3.1 |
| 1951 | 6 | #3,617 | 3.2 |
| 1950 | 10 | #2,540 | 5.6 |
| 1949 | 11 | #2,423 | 6.2 |
| 1948 | 8 | #2,947 | 4.6 |
| 1947 | 10 | #2,620 | 5.5 |
| 1946 | 5 | #3,884 | 3.1 |
| 1945 | 8 | #2,702 | 5.9 |
| 1944 | 10 | #2,425 | 7.3 |
| 1943 | 10 | #2,515 | 7.0 |
| 1942 | 16 | #1,846 | 11.6 |
| 1941 | 15 | #1,878 | 12.2 |
| 1940 | 12 | #2,157 | 10.4 |
| 1939 | 10 | #2,403 | 9.0 |
| 1938 | 10 | #2,440 | 9.0 |
| 1937 | 6 | #3,425 | 5.6 |
| 1936 | 14 | #1,944 | 13.5 |
| 1935 | 11 | #2,357 | 10.6 |
| 1934 | 9 | #2,700 | 8.7 |
| 1933 | 6 | #3,543 | 6.1 |
| 1932 | 8 | #3,031 | 7.7 |
| 1931 | 8 | #3,033 | 7.7 |
| 1930 | 17 | #1,875 | 15.5 |
| 1929 | 10 | #2,714 | 9.3 |
| 1928 | 16 | #2,025 | 14.4 |
| 1927 | 16 | #2,104 | 14.2 |
| 1926 | 16 | #2,053 | 14.4 |
| 1925 | 16 | #2,059 | 14.3 |
| 1924 | 17 | #2,030 | 15.0 |
| 1923 | 28 | #1,410 | 25.5 |
| 1922 | 13 | #2,445 | 11.9 |
| 1921 | 22 | #1,691 | 20.0 |
| 1920 | 13 | #2,421 | 12.2 |
| 1919 | 22 | #1,611 | 22.4 |
| 1918 | 17 | #1,973 | 16.8 |
| 1917 | 17 | #1,881 | 18.4 |
| 1916 | 9 | #2,875 | 10.1 |
| 1915 | 12 | #2,265 | 14.1 |
| 1914 | 9 | #2,403 | 13.7 |
| 1913 | 13 | #1,561 | 25.4 |
| 1912 | 12 | #1,503 | 27.9 |
| 1907 | 5 | #1,492 | 34.1 |
| 1892 | 6 | #1,044 | 49.2 |
| 1888 | 5 | #1,138 | 41.4 |
| 1886 | 6 | #934 | 54.2 |
| 1880 | 6 | #885 | 54.3 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Orren a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Orren has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 98 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Orren: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Orren, and how old are they?
An estimated 432 Americans named Orren and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (47% of everyone recorded); the median is 29 years old and half are between 13 and 63. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 446 people named Orren (8 women and girls, 438 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 425 born in the U.S. The Census count is 5% above that prediction.
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).
How common is the spelling Orren?
Orren is a less common spelling of Oren: SSA has recorded 925 Orren and 9,547 Oren since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 52,899 babies since 1880, Orren is the seventh most given (1.7% of them). In 2025 it was given to 7 of their 1,433 babies (<1%), the eighth most given that year.
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 Orren
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 Orren and names like it
- Compare Orren and OrenBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1920sOrren peaked in 1923.
- The top names of 1923The year the most babies were named Orren.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Orren alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with OMost given first.