Orie vs Oris
American parents have registered 2,156 Ories since 1880, against 1,893 Orises. Orie is still ahead, with 11 babies in 2025.
Babies given each name, 1880–2025
Orie Oris
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
Of the 132 years in which either name was published, Orie for 82 years and Oris for 50 years. The lead changed hands 38 times.
- 1880–1912 Orie ahead, apart from one short spell
- 1923–1940 Oris ahead, apart from one short spell
- 1941–1949 Orie ahead, apart from one short spell
- 1950–1968 Oris ahead, apart from one short spell
- 1986–2023 Orie ahead, apart from one short spell
29 shorter spells of a year or two are folded into the spans above rather than listed separately.
Side by side
| Orie | Oris | |
|---|---|---|
| Total US births | 2,156 | 1,893 |
| Most in one year | 59 | 65 |
| Babies in 2025 | 11 | under 5 |
| Estimated living today | 630 | 420 |
| Median age today | 52 | 69 |
| Peak year | 1917 | 1915 |
| Best rank | 1,003rd boys | 804th boys |
| Rank in 2025 | 7,194th | unranked |
| First recorded | 1880 | 1891 |
| Girls / boys | 429 / 1,727 | 232 / 1,661 |
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 Orises alive today are over 69; half the Ories are over 52. That is 17 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: Orie and Oris.