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Ori vs Oriana

American parents have registered 3,883 Orianas since 1880, against 1,966 Oris. Oriana is still ahead, with 113 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Ori against Oriana, 1880 to 2025 0 40 80 120 160 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Ori Oriana

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 59 years in which either name was published, Oriana for 57 years and Ori for 2 years. The lead changed hands 4 times.

Side by side

  Ori Oriana
Total US births 1,9663,883
Most in one year 152150
Babies in 2025 107113
Estimated living today 1,9003,800
Median age today 1019
Peak year 20242003
Best rank 1,556th boys1,348th girls
Rank in 2025 1,992nd1,777th
First recorded 19711966
Girls / boys 347 / 1,6193,883 / 0

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 Orianas alive today are over 19; half the Oris are over 10. That is 9 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Ori Oriana
France 401,615
England and Wales 171620
Poland 43454
Switzerland 15195

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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