Orlean vs Orlo
American parents have registered 920 Orlos since 1880, against 565 Orleans. Neither name reached five babies in 2025.
Babies given each name, 1880–2025
Orlean Orlo
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 74 years in which either name was published, Orlo for 57 years and Orlean for 17 years. The lead changed hands 18 times.
- 1881–1897 Orlo ahead
- 1898–1900 Orlean ahead
- 1904–1949 Orlo ahead, apart from 3 short spells
- 1953–1956 Orlean ahead
- 2016–2022 Orlo ahead
11 shorter spells of a year or two are folded into the spans above rather than listed separately.
Side by side
| Orlean | Orlo | |
|---|---|---|
| Total US births | 565 | 920 |
| Most in one year | 30 | 41 |
| Babies in 2025 | under 5 | under 5 |
| Estimated living today | 90 | 110 |
| Median age today | 79 | 78 |
| Peak year | 1921 | 1919 |
| Best rank | 1,668th girls | 1,063rd boys |
| Rank in 2025 | unranked | unranked |
| First recorded | 1896 | 1881 |
| Girls / boys | 543 / 22 | 0 / 920 |
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.
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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Orlean and Orlo.