Orrie vs Orrin

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Orrie Orrin

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 146 years in which either name was published, Orrin for 140 years and Orrie for 6 years. The lead changed hands 10 times.

• 1880–1882 Orrin ahead
• 1883 Orrie ahead
• 1884–1895 Orrin ahead
• 1896 Orrie ahead
• 1897–1901 Orrin ahead
• 1902–1903 Orrie ahead
• 1904 Orrin ahead
• 1905 Orrie ahead
• 1906–1907 Orrin ahead
• 1908 Orrie ahead
• 1909–2025 Orrin ahead

Side by side

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 Orries alive today are over 68; half the Orrins are over 32. That is 36 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Both names abroad

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

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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