Orry
Orry was given to 6 boys in 2025, #11,640 among boys’ names; 383 Americans have been recorded with it since 1985 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Orry by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Orry?
#11,640 among boys’ names, 2025
Orry rose from #11,717 in 2015 to #11,640 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 3.1 to 3.5 per million.
80 babies in 1986, the peak
Orry peaked in 1986, when 80 boys were given it, #1,046 among boys’ names. The 6 births of 2025 are 8% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6 | #11,640 | 3.5 |
| 2021 | 5 | #13,554 | 2.9 |
| 2020 | 7 | #10,308 | 4.1 |
| 2019 | 5 | #13,605 | 2.8 |
| 2018 | 6 | #11,766 | 3.3 |
| 2017 | 6 | #11,821 | 3.2 |
| 2016 | 5 | #13,662 | 2.6 |
| 2015 | 6 | #11,717 | 3.1 |
| 2014 | 7 | #10,428 | 3.6 |
| 2013 | 7 | #10,431 | 3.7 |
Every recorded year (30)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2008 | 5 | #14,060 | 2.5 |
| 2006 | 8 | #9,336 | 3.9 |
| 2004 | 5 | #12,712 | 2.5 |
| 2002 | 5 | #11,973 | 2.6 |
| 2001 | 10 | #6,787 | 5.1 |
| 2000 | 11 | #6,197 | 5.6 |
| 1999 | 5 | #11,125 | 2.6 |
| 1997 | 8 | #7,089 | 4.2 |
| 1996 | 8 | #6,935 | 4.2 |
| 1995 | 7 | #7,569 | 3.7 |
| 1994 | 14 | #4,468 | 7.2 |
| 1993 | 12 | #4,914 | 6.1 |
| 1992 | 11 | #5,146 | 5.5 |
| 1991 | 16 | #3,763 | 7.9 |
| 1990 | 17 | #3,558 | 8.3 |
| 1989 | 41 | #1,846 | 20.5 |
| 1988 | 16 | #3,306 | 8.4 |
| 1987 | 35 | #1,855 | 18.7 |
| 1986 | 80 | #1,046 | 43.4 |
| 1985 | 9 | #4,587 | 4.9 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Orry a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Orry has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 30 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Orry: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Orry, and how old are they?
An estimated 368 Americans named Orry and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (96% of everyone recorded); the median is 36 years old and half are between 26 and 39. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 381 people named Orry (15 women and girls, 366 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 356 born in the U.S. The Census count is 7% 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 Orry?
Orry is a less common spelling of Orie: SSA has recorded 383 Orry and 2,156 Orie since 1880.
Of these 7 names spelled alike, given to 6,106 babies since 1880, Orry is the fifth most given (6.3% of them). In 2025 it was given to 6 of their 124 babies (4.8%), the third 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 Orry
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 Orry and names like it
- Compare Orry and OrieBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sOrry peaked in 1986.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Orry since 1910.
- The top names of 1986The year the most babies were named Orry.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Orry alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with OMost given first.