Oryan
Oryan was given to 36 boys in 2025, #3,288 among boys’ names; 1,130 Americans have been recorded with it since 1975 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,110 Americans named Oryan and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 17 years old and half are between 9 and 23.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Oryan by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Oryan?
#3,288 among boys’ names, 2025
Oryan fell from #2,706 in 2015 to #3,288 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 23.5 to 21.1 per million.
53 babies in 2009, the peak
Oryan peaked in 2009, when 53 boys were given it, #2,438 among boys’ names. The 36 births of 2025 are 68% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 36 | #3,288 | 21.1 |
| 2024 | 29 | #3,867 | 16.8 |
| 2023 | 22 | #4,695 | 12.9 |
| 2022 | 38 | #3,198 | 21.8 |
| 2021 | 29 | #3,788 | 16.6 |
| 2020 | 36 | #3,184 | 20.9 |
| 2019 | 30 | #3,691 | 16.7 |
| 2018 | 31 | #3,580 | 17.1 |
| 2017 | 34 | #3,359 | 18.4 |
| 2016 | 32 | #3,498 | 16.9 |
Every recorded year (47)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 45 | #2,706 | 23.5 |
| 2014 | 32 | #3,439 | 16.7 |
| 2013 | 35 | #3,167 | 18.5 |
| 2012 | 30 | #3,603 | 15.8 |
| 2011 | 37 | #3,090 | 19.5 |
| 2010 | 51 | #2,458 | 26.6 |
| 2009 | 53 | #2,438 | 26.7 |
| 2008 | 52 | #2,453 | 25.5 |
| 2007 | 32 | #3,427 | 15.4 |
| 2006 | 49 | #2,501 | 23.8 |
| 2005 | 51 | #2,316 | 25.5 |
| 2004 | 39 | #2,727 | 19.6 |
| 2003 | 26 | #3,495 | 13.2 |
| 2002 | 20 | #4,143 | 10.3 |
| 2001 | 24 | #3,586 | 12.4 |
| 2000 | 17 | #4,511 | 8.7 |
| 1999 | 20 | #3,795 | 10.4 |
| 1998 | 23 | #3,362 | 12.0 |
| 1997 | 5 | #10,372 | 2.7 |
| 1996 | 15 | #4,328 | 7.9 |
| 1995 | 8 | #6,812 | 4.2 |
| 1994 | 14 | #4,469 | 7.2 |
| 1993 | 12 | #4,915 | 6.1 |
| 1992 | 12 | #4,780 | 6.0 |
| 1991 | 7 | #7,060 | 3.5 |
| 1990 | 14 | #4,119 | 6.8 |
| 1989 | 14 | #3,954 | 7.0 |
| 1988 | 8 | #5,580 | 4.2 |
| 1987 | 12 | #3,897 | 6.4 |
| 1986 | 11 | #4,052 | 6.0 |
| 1984 | 6 | #6,115 | 3.3 |
| 1983 | 10 | #4,067 | 5.6 |
| 1982 | 5 | #7,075 | 2.8 |
| 1979 | 9 | #4,307 | 5.2 |
| 1978 | 5 | #6,504 | 3.0 |
| 1977 | 5 | #6,573 | 3.0 |
| 1975 | 5 | #6,055 | 3.2 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Oryan a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Oryan has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 47 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Oryan: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Oryan, and how old are they?
1,110 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 1,130 Americans ever recorded as Oryan. The median Oryan alive today is 17 years old; half are between 9 and 23.
The 2020 Census counted 829 people named Oryan (52 women and girls, 777 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 935 born in the U.S. The Census count is 11% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 22 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 141 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 521 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 426 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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 8 names spelled alike, given to 52,899 babies since 1880, Oryan is the sixth most given (2.1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 36 of their 1,433 babies (2.5%), the fifth 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 Oryan
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 Oryan and names like it
- Compare Oryan and OrionBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
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- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Oryan since 1910.
- The top names of 2009The year the most babies were named Oryan.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Oryan alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with OMost given first.