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Orianna vs Oris

American parents have registered 1,893 Orises since 1880, against 1,378 Oriannas. But in 2025 it was Orianna that was commoner, 53 babies to fewer than five.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Orianna against Oris, 1880 to 2025 0 20 40 60 80 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Orianna 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 121 years in which either name was published, Oris for 79 years and Orianna for 42 years. The lead changed hands 3 times.

Side by side

  Orianna Oris
Total US births 1,3781,893
Most in one year 6865
Babies in 2025 53under 5
Estimated living today 1,400420
Median age today 1569
Peak year 20131915
Best rank 2,597th girls804th boys
Rank in 2025 3,067thunranked
First recorded 19111891
Girls / boys 1,378 / 0232 / 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 Oriannas are over 15. That is 54 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 Orianna Oris
France 37510

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: Orianna and Oris.