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Oralee vs Oran

American parents have registered 4,447 Orans since 1880, against 662 Oralees. Oran is still ahead, with 19 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Oralee against Oran, 1880 to 2025 0 30 60 90 120 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Oralee Oran

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Oran has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1880 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1909, when Oralee had 9 and Oran had 12.

Side by side

  Oralee Oran
Total US births 6624,447
Most in one year 29104
Babies in 2025 under 519
Estimated living today 1301,800
Median age today 8148
Peak year 19191922
Best rank 1,445th girls633rd boys
Rank in 2025 unranked5,045th
First recorded 19021880
Girls / boys 662 / 00 / 4,447

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Oralees alive today are over 81; half the Orans are over 48. That is 33 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Oralee and Oran.