Orah

#9,930 in 2025Girls' name

Alternate transcription of Ora

Orah has been given to 291 babies in the U.S. since 1882. In 2025 it ranked #9,930 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1892, with 12 recorded.

Babies named Orah, 2025

1 in 332,000

Orah over time, 1880–2025

Girls

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Orah: meaning, origin, and history

Alternate transcription of Ora

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Orah means

Orah is a alternate transcription of Ora.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Orah → Ora → Aurelia. The family’s proposed meaning is “golden”, recorded in English with the source elements aureus.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Ora.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 291 girls were recorded with the name Orah between 1882 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 12 in 1892; its best national rank was #794 in 1882.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #13,115 in 2020 to #9,930 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Orah?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025: 1 in 332,000; 10 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only: 1 in 161,000; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025: #9,930; of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size: 229,791 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Orah sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%

Class of 30Under 1%

Grade of 100Under 1%

School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 229,791 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Orah. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Orahs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Orah was born before 1914 — so the typical Orah is around 111 today.

Median birth year: 1914; About 111 years old
Biggest decade: 1890s; 22.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 24.1%; Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950: 75; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

1890s — 22.3% of all recorded uses (65).

Is Orah rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago: +958; Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago: +3,185; Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago: —; Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago: —; Not published both years
Share of its own peak: 83.3%; Peak was 1892 (12)
Years since peak: 133; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Volatile; 25.8% average annual change
Best rank ever: #794; 1882

Spellings of Orah

Orah is not the most common spelling — Sarah is, with 47.8% against Orah's 0.01%.

Sarah47.8%1,098,498
Leah11.2%256,488
Nora8.4%193,138
Cora6.8%156,028
Dora4.6%105,930
Opal3.2%73,539
Lora2.3%52,235
Ora1.7%39,278

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Orah around the world

Where Orah ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

England & Wales
2018–2018
#5,666
in 2018
France
2010–2024
#6,816
in 2024
South Australia
2009–2009
#818
in 2009

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Orah by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025: #9,930
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: Up 3,185
Best rank ever: #794; 1882
Peak year: 1892; 12 that year
First recorded: 1882
Last recorded: 2025
All-time count: 291
Count in 2025: 10

Names similar to Orah

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

Oral Arah Torah Afrah Surah Jirah Ifrah Cyrah Yarah Zyrah Larah Lyrah Corah Nyrah Oraya Zorah Ezrah Ayrah Mirah Nurah Airah Zairah Siarah Irah

Sibling names for Orah

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

For a sister

Bess Lulu Albina Lauretta Maude Lida Garnet Harriette

For a brother

Garfield Winfield Regis Waldo Grover Dewey Gustave Lyman

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