Orris
Orris was last recorded in 2022, when 5 babies were given it; 988 Americans have been recorded with it between 1894 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 Orris by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Orris?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #13,807, in 2022; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
51 babies in 1918, the peak
Orris peaked in 1918, when 51 babies were given it (45 boys, #1,005 among boys’ names). It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 5 | #13,807 | 2.9 |
| 1993 | 5 | #9,759 | 2.5 |
| 1967 | 6 | #3,859 | 3.4 |
| 1963 | 5 | #4,463 | 2.5 |
| 1960 | 5 | #4,443 | 2.3 |
| 1959 | 8 | #3,213 | 3.7 |
| 1957 | 9 | #2,962 | 4.2 |
| 1956 | 7 | #3,445 | 3.3 |
| 1955 | 5 | #4,242 | 2.4 |
| 1954 | 8 | #3,108 | 3.9 |
Every recorded year (57)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1951 | 8 | #3,005 | 4.2 |
| 1948 | 13 | #2,191 | 7.4 |
| 1947 | 16 | #1,971 | 8.7 |
| 1946 | 7 | #3,103 | 4.3 |
| 1945 | 7 | #2,926 | 5.2 |
| 1944 | 8 | #2,797 | 5.9 |
| 1943 | 12 | #2,251 | 8.4 |
| 1942 | 13 | #2,115 | 9.4 |
| 1941 | 12 | #2,173 | 9.8 |
| 1940 | 16 | #1,779 | 13.8 |
| 1939 | 8 | #2,761 | 7.2 |
| 1938 | 15 | #1,878 | 13.5 |
| 1936 | 13 | #2,038 | 12.5 |
| 1935 | 21 | #1,528 | 20.2 |
| 1934 | 18 | #1,715 | 17.4 |
| 1933 | 23 | #1,443 | 23.2 |
| 1932 | 25 | #1,413 | 23.9 |
| 1931 | 25 | #1,420 | 24.0 |
| 1930 | 15 | #2,043 | 13.7 |
| 1929 | 21 | #1,657 | 19.5 |
| 1928 | 29 | #1,375 | 26.2 |
| 1927 | 21 | #1,735 | 18.6 |
| 1926 | 20 | #1,771 | 18.0 |
| 1925 | 25 | #1,525 | 22.4 |
| 1924 | 34 | #1,261 | 30.0 |
| 1923 | 34 | #1,252 | 31.0 |
| 1922 | 39 | #1,154 | 35.8 |
| 1921 | 36 | #1,220 | 32.7 |
| 1920 | 44 | #1,063 | 41.3 |
| 1919 | 30 | #1,310 | 30.6 |
| 1918 | 45 | #1,005 | 44.4 |
| 1917 | 32 | #1,216 | 34.6 |
| 1916 | 26 | #1,365 | 29.2 |
| 1915 | 31 | #1,179 | 36.5 |
| 1914 | 28 | #1,088 | 42.8 |
| 1913 | 19 | #1,196 | 37.1 |
| 1912 | 19 | #1,084 | 44.2 |
| 1911 | 7 | #1,501 | 31.0 |
| 1910 | 7 | #1,389 | 36.0 |
| 1909 | 6 | #1,407 | 36.6 |
| 1908 | 10 | #932 | 64.8 |
| 1907 | 6 | #1,300 | 40.9 |
| 1906 | 6 | #1,212 | 45.1 |
| 1901 | 8 | #836 | 75.1 |
| 1900 | 5 | #1,445 | 33.2 |
| 1896 | 8 | #875 | 66.9 |
| 1894 | 5 | #1,194 | 43.2 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Orris a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 988 Americans recorded as Orris, 5% are girls and 95% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Orris: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Orris, and how old are they?
An estimated 114 Americans named Orris and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (12% of everyone recorded); the median is 78 years old and half are between 69 and 84. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 289 people named Orris (38 women and girls, 251 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 167 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.7 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 2 names spelled alike, given to 2,881 babies since 1880, Orris is the second most given (34% 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 Orris
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 Orris and names like it
- Compare Orris and OrisBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1910sOrris peaked in 1918.
- Minnesota’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Orris since 1910.
- The top names of 1918The year the most babies were named Orris.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Orris alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with OMost given first.