Ory
Ory was last recorded in 2011, when 8 babies were given it; 147 Americans have been recorded with it between 1919 and 2011 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Ory by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Ory?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #9,373, in 2011; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
22 babies in 1986, the peak
Ory peaked in 1986, when 22 boys were given it, #2,482 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 8 | #9,373 | 4.2 |
| 1995 | 6 | #8,578 | 3.2 |
| 1994 | 6 | #8,512 | 3.1 |
| 1993 | 6 | #8,394 | 3.1 |
| 1991 | 8 | #6,359 | 4.0 |
| 1990 | 15 | #3,907 | 7.3 |
| 1989 | 22 | #2,856 | 11.0 |
| 1988 | 11 | #4,373 | 5.7 |
| 1987 | 20 | #2,687 | 10.7 |
| 1986 | 22 | #2,482 | 11.9 |
Every recorded year (14)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1985 | 6 | #6,300 | 3.2 |
| 1983 | 5 | #7,007 | 2.8 |
| 1954 | 7 | #3,380 | 3.4 |
| 1919 | 5 | #4,637 | 5.1 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Ory a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Ory has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 14 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Ory: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Ory, and how old are they?
An estimated 133 Americans named Ory and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (91% of everyone recorded); the median is 37 years old and half are between 36 and 40. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 249 people named Ory (31 women and girls, 218 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 136 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.8 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census records the name people give, which for many is the short form Ory rather than the name on their birth record, and it counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out.
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 6 names spelled alike, given to 5,118 babies since 1880, Ory is the fifth most given (2.9% of them). In 2025 none of their 124 babies recorded by SSA was a Ory (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Ory
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 Ory and names like it
- Compare Ory and OrieBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sOry peaked in 1986.
- Louisiana’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Ory since 1910.
- The top names of 1986The year the most babies were named Ory.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Ory alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with OMost given first.