Orrin

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Orrin is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 49 births. Its best rank was 383rd, in 1881.

Rank in 2024: —outside the top 1,000
Births in 2024: 490.00% of boys
Peak year: 191598 births
Best rank: #383in 1881
Since 1880: 5,922people given the name

Babies named Orrin, by year of birthboys

The story in the numbers

5,922 boys have been named Orrin in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1915, with 98 births.

It is holding steady: its share of births has moved by less than half in either direction over ten years.

Half of everyone given the name was born by 1956, and the 1920s alone account for 12%. It has spent 61 of 145 years in the top 1,000.

Rank among boys, year by year

Higher on the chart = more popularrank (gaps = outside the top 1,000)

By decade

Decade	boys named Orrin
1880s	142
1890s	124
1900s	88
1910s	651
1920s	709
1930s	458
1940s	538
1950s	388
1960s	406
1970s	207
1980s	428
1990s	387
2000s	481
2010s	632
2020s	283

In 1915, its biggest year

Orrin was the 575th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1915 were John, William, James, Robert and Joseph. See all of 1915.

Names that rose and fell with Orrin

Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.

Other spellings in the data

Orin6,198 ever

What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.