Orrie vs Orris
American parents have registered 988 Orries since 1880, against 988 Orrises. Neither name reached five babies in 2025.
Babies given each name, 1880–2025
Orrie Orris
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 92 years in which either name was published, Orrie for 52 years and Orris for 40 years. The lead changed hands 25 times.
- 1880–1907 Orrie ahead, apart from 2 short spells
- 1910–1936 Orris ahead, apart from one short spell
- 1937–1939 Orrie ahead
- 1940–1944 Orris ahead
- 1952–1991 Orrie ahead, apart from 2 short spells
16 shorter spells of a year or two are folded into the spans above rather than listed separately.
Side by side
| Orrie | Orris | |
|---|---|---|
| Total US births | 988 | 988 |
| Most in one year | 34 | 51 |
| Babies in 2025 | under 5 | under 5 |
| Estimated living today | 210 | 120 |
| Median age today | 68 | 77 |
| Peak year | 1918 | 1918 |
| Best rank | 1,539th boys | 996th boys |
| Rank in 2025 | unranked | unranked |
| First recorded | 1880 | 1894 |
| Girls / boys | 313 / 675 | 49 / 939 |
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 Orrises alive today are over 77; half the Orries are over 68. That is 9 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.
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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Orrie and Orris.