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Oran

#5,152 in 2025Boys' name

Dun, sallow

Oran has been given to 4,447 babies in the U.S. since 1880. In 2025 it ranked #5,152 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1922, with 104 recorded.

Babies named Oran, 2025

1 in 174,000

Oran over time, 1880–2025

Boys
05010015018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Oran: meaning, origin, and history

Dun, sallow

Irish

What Oran means

Oran means “dun, sallow”, associated with odur.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

Anglicized from Old Irish saints' name Odrán, diminutive of odur (“dun, sallow”) (compare Irish Odhrán).

Excerpt from Wiktionary: Oran (English) · CC BY-SA 4.0

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Origin, language, and formation

Oran is used in English and Turkish. Its origins include Irish.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Odhrán.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 4,447 boys were recorded with the name Oran between 1880 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 104 in 1922; its best national rank was #486 in 1901.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #5,896 in 2020 to #5,152 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #4,509 in 2015 to #5,152 in 2025.

How common is Oran?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 174,000
19 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 89,900
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#5,152
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
120,943 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Oran sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

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 120,943 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Oran. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Orans were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Oran was born before 1939 — so the typical Oran is around 86 today.

Median birth year
1939
About 86 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
18.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
11.4%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
1,705
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1920s — 18.9% of all recorded uses (839).

Is Oran 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
−150
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+744
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
−643
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.86×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
18.3%
Peak was 1922 (104)
Years since peak
103
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
25.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#486
1901

Spellings of Oran

Oran is not the most common spelling — Brian is, with 13.8% against Oran's 0.05%.

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.

Where Oran is used

Across 1910–2025, Oran was most concentrated in Oklahoma — about 1 in 16,667 boys, against 1 in 87,716 across all states with data. It was least common in Tennessee (1 in —).

06 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Oklahoma1 in 16,667
  2. 2Texas1 in 20,000
  3. 3West Virginia1 in 25,000
  4. 4Arkansas1 in 50,000
  5. 5Louisiana1 in 50,000
  6. 6Indiana1 in 100,000
  7. 7Kentucky1 in 100,000
  8. 8Missouri1 in 100,000

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Oran has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Oran around the world

Where Oran 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
    1996–2025
    #1,538
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    1999–2025
    #166
    in 2025
  • Northern Ireland
    1997–2025
    #185
    in 2025
  • Ireland
    1969–2025
    #272
    in 2025
  • France
    2003–2025
    #5,847
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2013–2024
    #3,231
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1971–2011
    #784
    in 2011

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS, NISRA data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Notable people named Oran

People whose public names include Oran, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Oran by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#5,152
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 744
Best rank ever
#486
1901
Peak year
1922
104 that year
First recorded
1880
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
4,447
Count in 2025
19

Names similar to Oran

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

OralImranOraKiranKyranIranDoranTyranAbranTaranAranQuranDuranKaranEranKamranLoranCiaranFranTerranKoranGibranCurranKieran

Names with a curve like Oran

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Oran, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

ObieWebsterWaltonRupertCarlyleLambertGarnettLonzoOttisRowlandJewellEldridge

Sibling names for Oran

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

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