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Ori vs Orianna

American parents have registered 1,966 Oris since 1880, against 1,378 Oriannas. Ori is still ahead, with 107 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Ori Orianna

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 51 years in which either name was published, Ori for 37 years and Orianna for 14 years. The lead changed hands 5 times.

Side by side

  Ori Orianna
Total US births 1,9661,378
Most in one year 15268
Babies in 2025 10753
Estimated living today 1,9001,400
Median age today 1015
Peak year 20242013
Best rank 1,556th boys2,597th girls
Rank in 2025 1,992nd3,067th
First recorded 19711911
Girls / boys 347 / 1,6191,378 / 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 Oriannas alive today are over 15; half the Oris are over 10. That is 5 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 Orianna
France 40375
England and Wales 171130
Poland 432

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 Orianna.