Orton
Orton is a boy's name that peaked in 1921, when it was the 2,265th most popular in the United States. It has not appeared in the national data since 1951. About 8 Ortons are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 87.
Popularity, 1880–2025
boys named Orton
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 210
- Estimated living today
- 8
- Median age today
- 87
- Peak year
- 1921
- Best rank
- 2,265th
- Rank in 2025
- unranked
- First recorded
- 1905
How old the living Ortons are
born that year still alive today
Of the 210 babies given the name since 1905, about 8 are alive — 4 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1938 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Names of 1921
The most popular boys’ names the year Orton peaked:
Orton elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| England and Wales boys | Orton | 12 | 3,412th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.