Orris — boys' name

What the Data Says About Orris

The Social Security Administration has registered 939 babies named Orris between 1894 and 2022, spanning 129 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Orris currently falls outside the top 1,000 boys' names for 2022. The name reached its historical peak in 1918, when 45 babies received it in a single year. Orris is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 49 additional births since 1915.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Orris performed strongest in the 1920s, accumulating 303 births during that ten-year window. Across the 10 decades of recorded activity, Orris shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Minnesota, which accounts for 30 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by North Dakota and Indiana. In total, SSA state-level files list Orris in 4 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Orris 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 939 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.